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Drawing

Barman — Eddie

Date: 1932
Description: Eddie bartending at The Mansion.
Drawing

Barman — Ralph

Date: 1932
Description: Ralph bartending at Mike's.
Drawing

Barman — Pete

Date: 1932
Description: Pete bartending at Club Simplon.
Drawing

Barman — Bill

Date: 1932
Description: Bill bartending at Jack and Charlie's.
Photograph

Dance Hall Wine Room

Date: 01 01 1914
Description: People sitting at a table in a dance hall wine room at 2:00 a.m.
Photograph

Moonlight Outing Club

Date: 07 04 1913
Description: Group of people known as the "Moonlight Outing Club" at Muskego Lake.
Photograph

Wine Room

Date: 
Description: People sitting at tables, drinking and talking. A large banner with a picture of Thaddeus Kosciuszko hangs on the wall.
Photograph

Breaking Up a Fake Fight

Date: 
Description: Angie Vail and Alice Bedard pose in an attempt to break up a staged fight between Robert Vail and Sprague Vonier, while Harold Gauer lies on the ground und...
Photograph

Minors in a Saloon Dance Hall

Date: 05 03 1914
Description: A group of people, including minors, in a saloon dance hall at 2 a.m. in Milwaukee. The dance hall, Vizey's Hall, was on 8th Street and Walnut. Liquor was ...
Photograph

Group Photo of Harold Gauer's Friends

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Description: Large group of Harold Gauer's friends. In the front row from left to right are Bob Vail, Marion Bloch, Mary Jo Vonier, Angie Vail, an unidentified woman, a...
Photograph

Dancing Around Whiskey Bottle

Date: 
Description: A couple dances behind an oversized cut-out of a bottle of Seagrams Whiskey, with other people seated around them. Some are wearing fake eyes.
Photograph

Festival Audience near Stage at Night

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Part of the Sound Storm music festival audience as seen from the front of the stage at night. A number of people in the crowd are wrapped in blankets.
Photograph

James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn in "The Philadelphia Story"

Date: 1941
Description: James Stewart and Katharine Hepburn stand by a table with hors d'oeuvres and champagne in a scene still from "The Philadelphia Story" (MGM 1941).
Photograph

The Smashing Pumpkins

Date: 10 1996
Description: Publicity photograph of the four band members of The Smashing Pumpkins, a Chicago, Illinois rock band. From left to right are James Iha, Billy Corgan (seat...
Photograph

Reopening of Hillsboro Brewery

Date: 11 12 1939
Description: Outdoor group portrait of portion of the crowd attending the Reopening of the Hillsboro Brewery by C.H. Pfeiffer. Members of the band stand in the backgrou...
Magazine or Periodical

Get Thee Behind Me, [Mrs.] Satan!

Date: 02 17 1872
Description: Political cartoon depicting a woman on a rocky path carrying two children and a drunken husband on her back being tempted by Victoria Woodhull depicted as ...
Photograph

Lynn Fontanne, Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt

Date: 04 19 1970
Description: Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne...
Photograph

Sailors in a Bar

Date: 1942
Description: Two sailors and two women are seated at a table smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, while another woman stands playing an accordion for them. Around the ...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Dinner

Date: 1961
Description: A woman is standing and serving dinner to men sitting at long tables at the Ice Chippers meeting. Posters are taped to the wall behind the group, and inclu...
Photograph

Dancing at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 13 1975
Description: A couple dancing to accordion music at a book signing party at the Club Tavern. A young boy is dancing near them in the center, and the accordion player is...

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