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| Date: | 07 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Blackhawk Country Club dress up day for women titled "Children's Day." Women are dressed in children's costumes and are eating ice cream cones. |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Joyce Elmer is basting a chicken in an iron reflector oven and Gene Lyte is using a butter churn. Both women are University of Wisconsin home economics maj... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Isomel Billings is using an old-fashioned broom, Lietzel Pelican and Patricia Cirves are operating a sausage grinder. The women are University of Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 01 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Madison Theater Guild members working on costumes for their production of "Alice in Wonderland". Left to right: Carrie Rasmussen, 916 Con... |
| Date: | 01 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Who's New Club, in Civil War costumes. One woman is seated at a piano, one sitting near a spinning wheel, and two standing. They are pa... |
| Date: | 02 17 1949 |
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| Description: | Harold Lautz, sergeant-at-arms for the annual Lutheran Men's Club "Sweetheart's Dinner" held in the Lutheran Memorial Church, 1021 University Avenue. Mr. L... |
| Date: | 02 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Members of Ethlyn Jefferds' dancing class, fifth and sixth grade students from Shorewood, Randall, and Lakewood schools, attending their first costume ball... |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Six women in ethnic dress are shown standing behind decorated lunch baskets. They are at the first social event held in Our Lady Queen of Peace's new scho... |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | The members of the Madison Theater Guild have worked seven days a week to make costumes for a cast of 30 in the production of "As You Like It". They are wo... |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Pictured is the Madison Theater's Guild's costume designer who uses only the name Loie. |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Lou Doriag tries on her costume for Marilou Durkin. Lou Doriag plays Celia in "As You Like It" in a Madison Theater Guild production. |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | An actor from the Madison Theater Guild tries on a costume. |
| Date: | 07 21 1953 |
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| Description: | A couple in costume at the Blackhawk Country Club Gay 90's party. Ralph T. Peterson is serving his wife, Charlotte, a typical 90's meal. |
| Date: | 11 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Irvine (Marg) Elliott of 4601 Wallace Avenue, co-chairman of the "Party Fixins' booth at the Lake Edge Congregational Church bazaar, wears the cap and... |
| Date: | 11 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Anna Runstrom and her granddaughter, Erica Leigh Runstrom, demonstrate her spinning wheel at the East Side Businessman's hobby show. Erica is wearing a Swe... |
| Date: | 03 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Four Osseo cheerleaders with the letter "O" sewed to their sweaters pose on one knee with pompoms covering their legs. They wear (Sioux) Native American he... |
| Date: | 07 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Douglas and Betty Oldenburg testing the barbecued meat at Blackhawk Country Club's Western Party. |
| Date: | 04 03 1959 |
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| Description: | An authentic Scandinavian smorgasbord will be the key attraction at Madison's first Folk Festival and Fair sponsored and held at the YWCA, 122 State Street... |
| Date: | 04 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Irene Thomas wears a Norwegian costume while looking forward to the annual smorgasbord of the University YWCA in the John Muir room of the YMCA. |
| Date: | 07 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Children under the age of five bustle about while scrambling for peanuts thrown on the ground during the Fourth of July parade. |
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