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Acacia Fraternity Bowery Party

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Acacia fraternity "Bowery" party, with couples in costume. There are many commercial posters and advertising on the wall in the background.
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Acacia Fraternity "Nut House" Party

Date: 03 21 1931
Description: Group portrait of the Acacia fraternity "Nut House" party. Students are wearing costumes, and the room is decorated with posters.
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Madison Woman's Club "Home Front" Tea

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Mrs. Frederick (Marion) Rentschler and Mrs. John R. (Eileen) Frederick, members of the Madison Woman's Club, are shown with produce from their Victory gard...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 11 29 1947
Description: In the lobby of the Capitol Theatre, manager Fred Reeths is holding Johnny Heitz while he drops a coin into the Empty Stocking Club stocking. Johnny's moth...
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University of Wisconsin Winter Carnival

Date: 02 02 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin Winter Carnival general chairman Hans Hopf, and Joan Schroeder, both wearing sweaters, are shown admiring one of the trophies award...
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Boy Scout Four Lakes Council Annual Dinner

Date: 02 28 1950
Description: Boy Scout - Four Lakes Council annual dinner head table. Left to right are: John A. Raymond, scout commissioner; Dr. Albert E. Iverson, national director o...
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The "Guardian's" 40th Anniversary

Date: 10 23 1978
Description: Staff of the "Guardian," the Marxist-Leninist weekly newspaper, taken on the 40th anniversary of the paper's establishment. The cake is decorated with a ha...
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Loft Halloween Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Joyce Nelson gets her hand stamped by Kristine Kaltbrunner at the Loft Halloween party. Admission cost one quarter and Dan Garson's orchestra performed for...
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Men with Table Set for Large Meal

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Description: Man posed seated and another man standing in a large room, perhaps a shop of some kind, at a table set for a large meal. Both men are wearing aprons. On th...
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YWCA Benefit Tea

Date: 05 25 1956
Description: Assistant hostesses at the YWCA benefit tea for internationally speaking foreign students are left to right: Nan Rasmussen, Linda Bacon, Evelyn Gaumnitz an...
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Career Girls Entertain

Date: 02 15 1957
Description: Jean Ziegler cooking spaghetti for a dinner party at her apartment at 122 East Gilman Street, Apt. 205.
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Thanksgiving Student Artists

Date: 11 20 1957
Description: Portrait of Randall Elementary School student Michael Bollig, age 8, who created a Thanksgiving cut-out poster.
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West High School Valentine Dance

Date: 02 05 1957
Description: Dick Togstad and Judy Schwartz admire a poster for the West High School Valentine dance.
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International Printing Week

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Lawrence E. Perry (left), and Robert Perry, both of Watertown, and Mark Widen, Madison, look at a poster about Printing Week during a dinner observing Inte...
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 10 1953
Description: Cynthia Gelman and Sidney Tallard, children in Mrs. V.B. Roberts' nursery school, stand on chairs while inspecting a Thanksgiving poster on the nursery sch...
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School Children Celebrating Thanksgiving

Date: 11 1953
Description: Pupils in Clara Boyle's third grade class at Marquette School wear Puritan costumes while examining a small early American-style log cabin as part of their...
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A.P. Johnson Tavern on Independence Day

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Description: View from street towards a man and two women sitting in front of a storefront decorated with patriotic streamers. The woman on the left is holding a hand f...
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The Coon King

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Description: Portrait of a man sitting indoors in a chair with his eyes closed. A bottle is resting on his shoulder, and a sign has been placed on his lap that reads: "...
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Painting Signs for Hill Farms Dance

Date: 05 15 1965
Description: Sons and daughters of Hill Farm area residents are helping publicize the annual Hill Farm dance by painting signs to display in yards in the neighborhood. ...
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Ice Chippers Dinner

Date: 1961
Description: A woman sitting on the lap of a man at an Ice Chippers event. Several more men are sitting at the table. Posters are taped to the wall behind the group, an...

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