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University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club

Date: 12 20 1935
Description: Five men from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club. They are looking at photographs in Porter Butts' office at the Memorial Union.
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University of Wisconsin Centennial Birthday Banquet

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm with main speaker Philip Reed of the General Electric Company at the University of Wisconsin centennial birthday banquet at the Gr...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Shown around the punch bowl at the University of Wisconsin Centennial Art Exhibit at the Memorial Union are, left to right, Mrs. E.B. (Rosa) Fred, wife of ...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Donald J. and Mary S. Reppen, 717 Knickerbocker Street, are shown admiring the famous painting of "Virgin and Child" by Peter Paul Rubens at the University...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: In front of Gainsborough's painting, "Miss Sparrow," are Professor and Mrs. Jack Klenitz, 208, Highland Avenue and, on the right, Professor Julian Harris, ...
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Audience Members at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 20 1949
Description: Left to right are: Professor Andrew T. Weaver, Professor William Kiekhofer, Gladys Kiekhofer, and Cornelia Weaver, audience members at the premiere product...
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Audience Members at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Left to right are: Arlie W. Schorger; Mrs. John Greene, sister of Alfred Lunt; Mr. John Greene; and Margaret Schorger; audience members at the premiere per...
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University of Wisconsin Boxing Trophies

Date: 02 24 1949
Description: Jerry Erdahl, left, night manager of the Memorial Union, and Fern Anderson, chairman of the Union Trophy Room, discuss the placement of the last trophy in ...
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Memorial Union Smorgasbord

Date: 04 03 1951
Description: Lillian Steinmann (left) and Gladys Ratcliffe arranging some of the 40 colorful fruit molds at the Smorgasbord held at the University of Wisconsin Memorial...
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Annual Madison Sales Clinic

Date: 01 14 1952
Description: Group portrait of the leaders of the annual Madison Sales Clinic held at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. Left to right are Fred B. Nicholson, p...
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U.W. Class of 1902 Reunion

Date: 06 20 1952
Description: Fred Leiser (left) is shown presenting a $12,000 scholarships check to University Vice-President Ira Baldwin (right) at the Half Century club luncheon in t...
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International Students Attend the University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 27 1954
Description: Portrait of Andrew Nahm from Seoul, South Korea. He is studying for his Ph.D. degree in American history and is a teaching assistant in the history departm...
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We Saw You at Library Breakfast

Date: 05 02 1958
Description: The annual breakfast of the University of Wisconsin Library school was held in Tripp Commons of the Memorial Union. Established in 1925, the breakfast serv...
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University of Wisconsin Summer Session Pre-Prom Dinner

Date: 08 1958
Description: Mrs. and Mr. Arnold Langman, Racine, seated, were guests of their son, Wendell, standing right, at the pre-Prom dinner. Also shown at upper left is Deanne ...
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We Saw You . . . at Farm and Home Events

Date: 01 27 1959
Description: Wisconsin farm folks are getting a real education at the annual Farm and Home Week session on the University of Wisconsin campus. Hundreds of women attende...
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Press Interview with Senator Joseph McCarthy

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: Press interview at the Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Identified (left to right) are the United States Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McC...
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Wisconsin School Administrators Conference

Date: 09 22 1960
Description: Portrait of Fred Pinkham (left), president of Ripon college; George Watson, state superintendent of public instruction; Earl Johnson, professor at U.W. Mil...
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Dr. Alberto Lleras Camargo, Former President of Columbia, Speaks at the U.W.

Date: 10 17 1965
Description: Dr. Alberto Lleras Camargo, twice former president of Columbia, speaking at the Wisconsin Memorial Union on the problems of overpopulation in Latin America...
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Rally

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: A barbershop quartet of U.W. students singing on behalf of prom queen candidate, Mary Gisvold of Chippewa Falls, at the rally in the Memorial Union Rathske...
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Panhellenic Ball

Date: 02 26 1954
Description: Chatting at the Panhellenic Ball in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union are sorority housemothers. Seated are Mrs. Ruth Gauchat, Mrs. Nyla Lowell, Mrs. Ke...

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