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Triplets' Birthday

Date: 03 13 1961
Description: Second birthday party of Judy, Robin, and Linda Constantineau of 8106 W. Euclid Ave. All three girls are eating cake.
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Triplets with Birthday Cake

Date: 12 26 1954
Description: Triplets blowing out the candles of their birthday cake.
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Susan B. Anthony

Date: 1870
Description: Portrait of Susan B. Anthony on her 50th birthday.
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Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
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Rural Telephone Operator

Date: 11 1954
Description: Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby.
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Three's Cake

Date: 07 18 1963
Description: Father, mother and daughter all celebrate their special birthday with three candles on one cake.
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Matthew A. Marcou

Date: 09 23 1990
Description: Matthew A. Marcou, son of the photographer, in his best outfit on his 3rd birthday.
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Ole Torgerson

Date: 03 04 1896
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ole Torgerson on his 70th birthday.
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Birthday Party

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Description: Seven residents of the Dane County Hospital and Home gather around a table to celebrate a birthday. A birthday cake sits on the table.
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Gates Birthday Celebration

Date: 1957
Description: Clough Gates, publisher of the "Superior Telegram," cutting a cake to celebrate his 80th birthday. Max Lavine stands in the middle background, and watching...
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Birthday Party Group Portrait

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Description: An outdoor group portrait of a birthday party. A cake with many candles and a lace tablecloth sits on a table in front. Most of the party are dressed up. N...
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Bicentennial Dance

Date: 02 22 1932
Description: Children at the Honey Creek State Graded School, District No. 1, commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington with a dance performed...
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Washington's Birthday

Date: 02 22 1932
Description: Two students at the Honey Creek School, District No. 1, pose as if dancing a minuet outside of the school building. The boy and girl are dressed in Eightee...
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Rhythm Band

Date: 02 22 1932
Description: A young girl in a frilly dress holding rhythmn sticks sits front and center among the smiling members of the Honey Creek School Rhythm Band. They are all i...
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Alfred Hitchcock and Walter Wanger

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock stands next to Gertrude Hoffman who is smiling and holding a birthday cake. Walter Wanger stands to the right of the woman, and Herbert Ma...
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Lansing A. Wilcox 105th Birthday Party

Date: 1951
Description: Group portrait of Lansing A. Wilcox — last Civil War veteran in Wisconsin — with a group of men at his 105th birthday. The birthday party was held at the G...
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Jessie Jack Hooper and Family

Date: 05 28 1892
Description: Studio portrait of Benjamin Hooper, Jessie Jack Hooper, and their daughter Lorna on her third birthday.
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Joy Camps Hiawatha Pageant

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several photographs and a homemade, pageant program. Includes scenes from the Hiawatha Pageant that campers...
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Birthday Tablescape, Scenes IV, V, and VI

Date: 02 26 1928
Description: Six scenes of miniature landscapes and interiors comprise a tablescape honoring six decades in the life of Emma Seipp Schmidt on the occasion of her sixtie...
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Birthday Tablescape, Scenes I, II, and III

Date: 02 26 1928
Description: Six scenes of miniature landscapes and interiors comprise a tablescape honoring six decades in the life of Emma Seipp Schmidt on the occasion of her sixtie...

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