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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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Cecily Weaver Teaching Bridge

Date: 11 22 1932
Description: Cecily Weaver teaching bridge and the use of the Fulton Shur-Win Bidder to a table of four women. Sitting left to right are: Esther Hermsen, Inger Emery, G...
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Bridge Tea at Glenn Frank House

Date: 11 16 1932
Description: University League benefit bridge tea at University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank's home, 130 N. Prospect Avenue, junior division in the President's librar...
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Bridge Tea at Glenn Frank House

Date: 11 16 1932
Description: University League benefit bridge tea at University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank's home, 130 N. Prospect Avenue, senior division in the President's study ...
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Cecily Weaver Playing Bridge

Date: 11 14 1932
Description: Cecily Weaver is sitting at a card table holding bridge cards. She was in charge of the "Capital Times" free contract bridge classes which will demonstrate...
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Election Party

Date: 11 08 1932
Description: Election party at St. Andrew's church. Shows people playing a card game at a table, and onlookers standing nearby.
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Garden Bridge Party

Date: 07 22 1932
Description: Tables of A.A.U.W. women bridge players in the garden of Mrs. Carl A. Johnson's house, Fuller's Woods, from a distance. Also shows rear view of the house.
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Madison Woman's Club Annual Benefit Party

Date: 10 24 1944
Description: Participating in the annual Woman's Club benefit party are Shorewood Hills League members, left to right: Mrs. Walter (Clare) Weissinger, 1241 Sweet Briar ...
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Madison Community Center 2nd Anniversary

Date: 01 29 1948
Description: Pictured are a group of Madisonians seated at tables in a large room playing cards at the Madison Community Center, West Doty Street. The center celebrate...
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Charles Goren

Date: 10 15 1948
Description: Charles Goren, nationally known bridge expert, attended one of the topnotch bridge clubs in Madison at the home of Mrs. John Guy (Agatha) Fowlkes. From lef...
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Railroad Women's Clubs Party

Date: 04 20 1949
Description: Four women who attended the dessert bridge party given by the Milwaukee Railroad Women's Club for the Northwestern Railroad Women's Club at Manchester's Ma...
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League of Women Voters Skit Cast

Date: 09 14 1950
Description: Four League of Women Voters of Madison members who will perform a skit, "Bridge a la League" at a membership reception, are gathered around a card table. F...
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Sorority Pledges

Date: 10 03 1950
Description: Four Madison pledges of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority play bridge on a card table. From left are Margaret Mortens, Patricia Clardy, Mary Ann Pohle, and Ma...
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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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Older Adult Klub Activities

Date: 02 13 1951
Description: Members of the Older Adult Klub play canasta at the Madison Community Center. They are Mrs. Minnie Ewing, Mrs. Carrie Soule, Mrs. Margaret Durkee, and Mrs....
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Jeanette Kincaid Playing Card Collection

Date: 08 13 1952
Description: Mrs. Charles (Jeanette) Kincaid of 2122 Vilas Avenue is shown with a display of some of her playing card collection. Mrs. Kincaid has collected more than 4...
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Lake View Lutheran Lutefisk Dinner

Date: 11 10 1954
Description: Slightly elevated view of three women and two men playing cards while sitting on Mid-Century couches around a kidney shaped coffee table. On the coffee tab...
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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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Stagette Day at Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 07 18 1956
Description: Women members of Maple Bluff Country club hold their first Stagette Day with golf prizes. Four of the organizers are shown at a table playing cards. They a...
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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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