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Birthday Boy

Date: 1957
Description: A boy blowing out 9 candles on a birthday cake.
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Central High School Homecoming Court

Date: 10 18 1952
Description: Central High School Homecoming King, Miles Kiefer; Queen, Mildred Fish; attendants Bonnie Willmoth, Shirley Jackson, Peggy Swadley, and Beverly Larson; and...
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Purim Party at the Warburg Children's Home

Date: 1949
Description: A Purim party at the Warburg Children's Home; Blankenesse (a suburb of Hamburg), Germany.
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Man Standing at Podium

Date: 1941
Description: A man stands at a podium speaking into a microphone. There is a cake with the number 10 on it, and letters on the curtain behind him spell out "...gratulat...
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University of Wisconsin Football Pregame Party

Date: 10 26 1954
Description: Audrey Walsh arranges an heirloom crystal candelabra in preparation for a University of Wisconsin football pregame party. She plans to serve Swedish meatba...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 522-531

Date: 
Description: It's a day for celebration, just to be so cheering glad and everyone to know
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Postal Clerks Local 241 January Christmas Party

Date: 01 08 1961
Description: Cecelia and Ken Miller and Dorothy and John Switzky share a moment of laughter.
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Postal Clerks Local 241 January Christmas Party

Date: 01 08 1961
Description: Richard and Dorothy Trameri and Marguerite and Wesley Burke talk on the edge of the dance floor.
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Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Scenes from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Edwin Steul, left, and S...
Photograph

Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Scenes from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Five University of Wisco...
Photograph

Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Scenes from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Two former residents, Ch...
Photograph

Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Scene from "Here We Go Again", an amateur variety show put on as entertainment for the 1961 Twelfth Night party at Nakoma School. Four cast members of the ...
Photograph

Madison Civic Symphony Pops Concert

Date: 04 29 1961
Description: A group of guests attends the Civic Symphony Pops Concert in the Crystal Ballroom of the Hotel Loraine They include (seated), from left to right: Archie Ki...
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Chi Omega Sorority's Diamond Horseshoe Day Observation

Date: 08 14 1964
Description: Mrs. Donald E.(Pauline Graven)Fugere, 5138 Juneau Road and Mrs. Clifford W. (Marjorie Lowe) Pauls, 213 N. Owen Drive, co-chairmen of Diamond Horseshoe Day,...
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Edgewood High School Homecoming Court of Honor

Date: 10 27 1964
Description: Pictured are the ten members of the Edgewood High School Homecoming court of honor. From left to right, the young people are Julie McGivern, Jerome Fahey, ...
Photograph

Conservation Department Retirees

Date: 09 16 1965
Description: Two members of the state Conservation Department being honored at their retirement. George Sprecher, left, assistant department director; and Lew Laughlin,...
Print

Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

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Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in green on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. Inside graphic is a line-drawing cartoon of an ice fisherm...
Print

Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

Date: 1955
Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in red ink on white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. The cover graphic is a cartoon of a warmly dressed man expir...
Photograph

Mr. and Mrs. George Paine Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary

Date: 08 06 1957
Description: Mr. and Mrs. George Paine (29 N. Sixth Street) celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception in their honor at their son, Leslie Paine's, home ...

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