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Card Players

Date: 03 20 1965
Description: Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for...
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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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Card Players

Date: 10 29 1956
Description: Men playing cards.
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Senior Citizens Card Game

Date: 09 10 1968
Description: Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center.
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Card Game

Date: 08 22 1963
Description: Group plays cards underneath the shady trees in Mitchell park.
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Business and Professional Women Scholarship Party

Date: 02 02 1955
Description: Estah Cummings and Evelyn Milliff, members of the Ways and Means Committee of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, in the kitchen preparing ...
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Social Afternoon Klub

Date: 01 18 1951
Description: A group of retired people play a game of canasta at the Social Afternoon Klub which is held weekly at the Madison Community Center. The Social Afternoon Kl...
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Running for Re-election

Date: 1970
Description: Running hard for re-election after having served less than a full term, Congressman David R. Obey greets card-playing seniors.
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Pioneer Homemakers Christmas Party

Date: 12 09 1992
Description: "Pioneer Homemakers Christmas Party. L-R: Betty Schmidt, Myrtle Luhn, Loretta Sauer, Rogeen Franzen, and Shirley Widmer."
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Dog Clearing Bar Table

Date: 11 1946
Description: Four men playing cards at a table with a fifth man seated on a radiator observing at left. In the foreground, a dog clears an empty beer bottle from the ta...
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Poker Reunion

Date: 1975
Description: This was a reunion of a group that used to meet in the 1950's to play poker. Around the table, starting at the left: Lawrence Steger, Jr., Ralph Bodden, Do...
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Milwaukee Card-Playing Tournament

Date: 1965
Description: Two men, competitors in a state card-playing (skat) tournament.
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Ladies Playing Cards

Date: 07 1963
Description: Group of women playing cards while wearing hats and pearls.
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Card Party

Date: 1967
Description: Middle-aged woman seated at an outdoor table with refreshments. She is wearing a hat made out of newspaper. The occasion is a card party arranged for older...
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Gridiron Club Winter Dinner Menu

Date: 12 10 1949
Description: Gridiron Club menu, mounted on board, with a "Wel-Fair Deal" cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman with President Truman playing cards and saying to a man...
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Card Player; Esther Lewis

Date: 07 11 1968
Description: Close-up of a woman wearing a newspaper hat playing cards. Identified as Esther Lewis playing with the Golden Agers club members in Washington Park, Milwau...
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Bridge Tournament

Date: 11 23 1965
Description: Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Bruce Beilfuss, and Elizabeth Lester, one of Wisconsin's first life masters in bridge, are each holding a hand of cards. In...
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After a Ducks Unlimited Meeting

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Description: Two men from Ducks Unlimited are playing cards at a table, while another man is looking at a poster created by Sid titled: "Secrets of a Sweater Girl." The...
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Happy Birthday Doc

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Description: Group portrait of six men holding up a signboard saying "Happy Birthday Doc" in the middle of a card table. The group is sitting and playing cards in what ...
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A Friendly Game

Date: 09 1921
Description: Leonore and Forest Middleton, on the far left, playing cards with two other women and a man while sitting at a small table. The man on the far right has th...

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