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Belmont Spa Tavern

Date: 06 11 1945
Description: Richard and Ione Edwards behind the bar at the Belmont Spa, in the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street, with a clock advertising Calvert liquor.
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Mrs. Margaret Wells Wood

Date: 09 27 1933
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Margaret Wells Wood, speaker on "Petting Parties," at the Loraine Hotel. A lecturer and field worker for the American Social Hygiene Assoc...
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Helen Hall, Youth Hostel Secretary

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: Helen Hall, secretary at the Youth Hostel headquarters on the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road, near Shorewood Hills.
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Wisconsin Delegates to Republican National Convention

Date: 06 26 1944
Description: Two Wisconsin delegates to Republican Party National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. William Campbell, Oshkosh, left, and Arthur Prehn, Wausau, right.
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Senator and Mrs. McCarthy

Date: 1956
Description: Senator and Mrs. Joseph R. McCarthy at the Gateway Hotel in Land O'Lakes.
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Loraine Hotel Hold-up

Date: 11 24 1947
Description: Police officer Raymond P. Kurth holds the leather bag in which the robber, Max M. Feeney, carried the money stolen from the Loraine Hotel.
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Dane County Rural Letter Carriers' Association Officers

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Vice-president Leslie Larson, McFarland, (left) and president Wilbur Johnson, Lake Mills, who were re-elected to head the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers...
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Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington

Date: 06 24 1949
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington, Washington D.C., president of the National Federaton of Women's Republican Clubs, in her suite at the Hotel Loraine.
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Zor Shrine Potentate's Ball

Date: 11 21 1949
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Rufus F. Wells pose for a portrait as guests of honor at the Zor Shrine Potentates' Ball held at the Hotel Loraine. Mr. Wells is head of the Z...
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Jaycettes Style Show

Date: 03 04 1952
Description: Mrs. Lee (Alma) Baron of 3304 Blackhawk Drive modeling a ballerina-length gown for the Jaycettes style show at the Hotel Loraine, 123 West Washington Avenu...
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Honoring Union Members

Date: 12 05 1957
Description: Truman Swann (left) and Joe Lowenberg attend a dinner to honor union members at the Hotel Loraine.
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Forest Products Society Wives Luncheon

Date: 06 23 1958
Description: Many social events were planned for the wives who accompanied their husbands to a meeting at the Forest Products Research Society. Two active members of th...
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Ronald E. Johnson Wins World Cheddar Cheese Championship

Date: 11 13 1958
Description: Ronald E. Johnson of Mt. Sterling in Crawford County, Wisconsin, was named the winner of the World Cheddar Cheese Championship at the Hotel Loraine. He rec...
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Menu for Dinner in Honor of President-Elect Warren G. Harding

Date: 12 04 1920
Description: Menu for dinner honoring President-Elect Warren G. Harding by the citizens of Newport News, Virginia, at the Hotel Warwick. On the cover is a framed quarte...
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The Newlyweds

Date: 10 22 1949
Description: The newlyweds pose in front of Krueger's Empire Hotel in Theresa.
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Mrs. Joseph Smith

Date: 1908
Description: Mary E. Smith seated in a bedroom in the Belvedere Hotel (?), probably in Washington, D.C. or vicinity. Her reflection is in the mirrored door behind her. ...
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Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: Robert C. Goodwin, Director of the Bureau of Employment Security, and Arthur J. Altmeyer, Commissioner, Social Security Administration, at the twelfth annu...
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Scene at Merchant's Hotel

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Description: Indoor portrait of a European American boy posing lying on his stomach on top of a cloth covered table with his head in his hands, possibly taken inside th...
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Child Standing on Table in Boxing Stance

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Description: Indoor portrait of a European American child posing standing on a table in a pugilist pose, with a European American man posing standing on the right with ...
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Dickey Chapelle Receiving Polk Award

Date: 04 13 1962
Description: Dickey Chapelle receiving the George Polk Memorial Award from William Lawrence of The New York Times at the Waldorf Astoria.

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