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| Date: | 01 28 1934 |
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| 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. ... |
| Date: | 04 28 1948 |
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| Description: | First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph students are watching a "m... |
| Date: | 01 26 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.E. Hurff standing on the stairway of her Eagle Heights apartment, furnished with Chinese art objects purchased during Captain J.E. Hurff's naval dut... |
| Date: | 10 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Making decorations for West High School's homecoming dance are the following West students: Richard Hanson, Betsy Severson, Marilyn Jones, and Julie Torris... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Anna Woodward, Kate Quinney's employer, seated in an electric car parked in front of a city building. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the block house with a steep exposed ceiling. A man is siting in a chair, and United States flags adorn the columns and a framed image on ... |
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| Description: | Interior of the bar room at Hotel Astor, built in 1904. Waiters, bartenders, and patrons stand around the bar, decorated in the Old World style. |
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| Description: | People stand at the gate to the ten-acre Monticello Amusement Park. The arched entrance is decorated with various shapes, windmills, towers, and flags. Fen... |
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| Description: | Entrance to Bug House Amusement Park (?). View features several people standing in front of the entrance to the building, which features elaborate paintin... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Reinhard Grulke received this horse and carriage cutout as a gift. |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Maybelle Otterson demonstrates a Christmas custom as she hangs a front door decoration on her home at 209 North Blackhawk Avenue in Shorewood. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo... |
| Date: | 10 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Kent Kildow and Larry Brown are shown adding an extra loop of paper ribbon to the spooky figure on the band stand. Other paper decorations include skeleton... |
| Date: | 03 15 1960 |
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| Description: | Working on plans for the annual dinner meeting of the Wisconsin Alumni Club of Madison are Anya Castle, Dorothy Curreri, Mary Mohs, and Jean Johnson. The s... |
| Date: | 12 17 1964 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Zimmerman, age 6, is looking over a polyvinyl Christmas tree at the Dream Lanes bowling alley on Cottage Grove Road. Green polyvinyl is the latest th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An Indian boy posing wearing a feathered headdress and a beaded bandolier in front of the doorway of a building. He is in an Indian village at the mouth of... |
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| Description: | Three rows of paintings are displayed outdoors on a lawn. Men and women are walking among the rows looking at the pieces for sale. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the 1st floor salesroom of the new Glander Art Studio at 822 Washington Street. Framed pictures are covering the walls. Tables and glass f... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man and woman relaxing, reclining in the garden of a house. The man is ducking his head under the foliage of a plant behind him. A vase-sh... |
| Date: | 08 30 1960 |
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| Description: | Virginia Purnell, one of the three co-chairmen of the Attic Angel benefit antique and artificial flower arrangement sale is shown at the front entrance of ... |
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