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Two Men Reading

Date: 1900
Description: Two men read in a room with many signs on the wall and a hanging lamp. Perhaps a fraternity house.
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Group of People in Fraternity House

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Description: Group of people in dormitory or fraternity house. Four girls and three men inside room. One girl has a guitar and the other a small megaphone.
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Man in Dormitory

Date: 1900
Description: Man in dormitory or fraternity playing banjo. There are signs that say "University of Missouri" and "Don't be woozy" above the door. There are photos and c...
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Students Working on a Homecoming Display

Date: 11 06 1956
Description: Three Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity members, Joe Wimmer, Watertown; Jim Laabs, Abbotsford; and Gene Frederickson, Milwaukee; prepare house decorations for t...
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Phi Delta Theta Homecoming Display

Date: 11 07 1952
Description: The Phi Delta Theta fraternity house, 222 Langdon Street, is decorated for Homecoming with a theme of Bucky Badger whipping the Northwestern University Wil...
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Charles Brown Residence

Date: 05 12 1896
Description: The Charles N. Brown residence, 271 Langdon Street, erected in 1886 and demolished in 1929. Brown was an attorney who served as court commissioner, and was...
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124 Langdon Street

Date: 1924
Description: 124 Langdon Street, viewed from Lake Mendota. The house was designed by Madison architect Frank Riley and built in 1924 for the Kappa Sigma fraternity. T...
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University of Wisconsin Homecoming Decorations

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Homecoming decorations at the Delta Sigma Pi house, 132 Breese Terrace. Dennis Krahn, left, and Charles Krouse, right, set up a dummy with the numerals of ...
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Alpha Chi Omega Sisters

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Four University of Wisconsin Alpha Chi Omega sorority sisters modeling clothes from "then and now". Pictured from left to right are: Larinice Ballam in a 1...
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Alpha Phi Sorority Garden Tea

Date: 05 16 1948
Description: Alpha Phi sorority, 28 Langdon Street. was the site of a garden party for all sorority women on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Left to right: ...
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Alpha Phi Sorority Garden Tea

Date: 05 16 1948
Description: Alpha Phi sorority, 28 Langdon Street, was the site of a garden party for all sorority women on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Left to right: ...
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Alpha Phi Sorority Garden Tea

Date: 05 16 1948
Description: Alpha Phi sorority, 28 Langdon Street, was the site of a garden party for all sorority women on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Left to right: ...
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Zeta Phi Eta Benefit Tea

Date: 06 01 1948
Description: Madison alumnae of Zeta Phi Eta honorary speech sorority, will entertain in a skit, "An Afternoon at Squire Pethrick's." Proceeds from the Centennial tea w...
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Sorority Girls Knitting for Hospital Patients

Date: 10 11 1948
Description: Two sorority volunteers knitting for hospital patients that are unable to do handiwork themselves, but desire hand-made articles to give as gifts or to use...
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Alpha Phi Madison Pledges

Date: 10 18 1948
Description: The following University of Wisconsin Madison students pledged Alpha Phi. Left to right: Joan Bratt, daughter of the R.O. Bratts; Sally Kellogg, daughter o...
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Kappa Alpha Theta Madison Pledges

Date: 10 18 1948
Description: Kappa Alpha Theta Madison pledges are: Mary Clare Koltes, Mary Lou Sorensen, Patricia McGovern, Barbara Hampton, and Gretchen Jorgensen. Susan Norris, was ...
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Gamma Phi Beta Madison Pledges

Date: 10 18 1948
Description: Gamma Phi Beta Madison pledges are top row: Betsy Boardman, and Nancy Jean Maloney. Middle row: Jeanne O'Donnell, and Jean Depew; seated on the floor: Jean...
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Sorority Alumnae Play Cast

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Two alumnae members of the Madison chapter of Phi Beta, speech and music sorority, rehearsing for their part in the "Old English Revels" for members and th...
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Pre-Christmas Sorority Formal Party

Date: 12 11 1948
Description: Betty Oxnem, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Oxnem of 10 Vista Road, shown with a group of friends she entertained at an "open house" prior to the Theta Ph...
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Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy"

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Cecile Vogelbaugh, center, director of music for the production of Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy," is consulting with Beverly Ethun, 202 Dunning Street, ...

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