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Seven East High School Seniors and Cake

Date: 06 06 1935
Description: Seven East High School seniors and one woman sitting on stage with a tiered birthday cake with candles.
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White House Cake

Date: 01 28 1934
Description: Three men are standing behind a cake shaped like the White House, baked by the Strand Baking Company, 2007 Atwood Avenue, for the Roosevelt Birthday Ball. ...
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Martha Washington Tableau

Date: 02 22 1932
Description: The John Bell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution present a tableau of Martha Washington's life at the Hotel Loraine for the bicentennial o...
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Children at WIBA Radio Station

Date: 05 22 1931
Description: 350 children and Uncle Bob at WIBA radio station for Uncle Bob's 23rd birthday party. Uncle Bob was host of Kayo Kiddies program.
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Family with Christmas Decorations

Date: 12 19 1955
Description: Mrs. Paul Meyer and children Freddy, Maria, and Elena, 2141 Keyes Avenue, filling a pinata for Maria's fouth birthday party and also Christmas.
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Will N. Wells

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: Will N. Wells, of the Wells Printing Company, celebrating his eighty-fourth birthday with friends. Left to right: John G. MacFarland, an actor; J.J. McMana...
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University of Wisconsin Centennial Birthday Banquet

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: Birthday cake in the shape of Bascom Hall in front of the speakers table at the University of Wisconsin centennial birthday banquet in the Great Hall of th...
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Madison Maennerchor Singing Society

Date: 02 21 1950
Description: Members of the Madison Maennerchor, the oldest singing society in Wisconsin, standing around their accompanist, Mrs. Grace L. Snell, at the group's ninety-...
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Guests at Party Wearing Paper Hats

Date: 05 20 1902
Description: Men, women and children seated in chairs and on the floor wearing paper hats in honor of aunt Helen's birthday. A piano is on the right, a chandelier hangs...
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Berry School

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Description: A large group of children posed outdoors at a birthday party for a teacher at Berry School. The teacher is at the center and is surrounded on both sides by...
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Winkie, Vilas Zoo Elephant

Date: 05 27 1952
Description: Bob Dick, WIBA Radio Program Director, interviews Harold Hayes, Director of the Vilas Zoo, at the "coming out" party and birthday of Winkie the elephant.
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American Legion Birthday Party

Date: 03 1998
Description: "This quartet entertained at the American Legion Annual Birthday Party."
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Grand Hotel Queen's Birthday Menu Exterior

Date: 05 24 1898
Description: Front and back covers, printed in color, of the bill of fare served at the Grand Hotel on the birthday of Queen Victoria, with a tinted three-quarter view ...
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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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Wilhelm II Birthday Celebration Menu

Date: 01 27 1899
Description: Front cover of the menu for the "Fest-Mahl zur Feier des Geburtstages" given to Wilhelm II in Frankfurt, with a brown leather medallion embossed with a hea...
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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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Gridiron Club Sixty-Fifth Birthday Menu

Date: 05 13 1950
Description: Menu, mounted on board, for the sixty-fifth birthday dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of Father Time carrying a s...
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Gridiron Club Fifty-Seventh Birthday Dinner Menu

Date: 02 28 1942
Description: Front cover and illustration from insert for the inauguration of club president Lewis Wood, with numbered illustrated phases of his career, and a banner re...

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