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Severson's Service Station Beer Party

Date: 06 10 1936
Description: View across street of a large group of people posing in front of Severson's Phillips 66 Service Station, 2089 Atwood Avenue, during a summer evening beer p...
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Birthday Boy

Date: 1957
Description: A boy blowing out 9 candles on a birthday cake.
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Children's Birthday Party

Date: 02 19 1937
Description: Children's birthday party at 906 Brittingham Boulevard, with participants wearing party hats and sitting at a table with a birthday cake.
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White House Cake

Date: 01 28 1934
Description: Three men are standing behind a cake shaped like the White House, baked by the Strand Baking Company, 2007 Atwood Avenue, for the Roosevelt Birthday Ball. ...
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White House Cake

Date: 01 28 1934
Description: One man is standing behind a cake shaped like the White House, showing the rear view of the White House, baked by the Strand Baking Company, 2007 Atwood Av...
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Beatrice Gulley's Birthday Party

Date: 01 09 1934
Description: Beatrice Gulley's (Mrs. Carson Gulley) birthday party. Group portrait of family and friends posing around a small table with birthday cake and flowers.
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Oscar Mayer Meat Products Display

Date: 12 13 1931
Description: Oscar Mayer meat products on display at a Christmas party.
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Aunt Mary Gives a "Corn-top Bread" Lunch

Date: 11 22 1931
Description: Aunt Mary putting on a "Corn-top Bread" lunch in the Orpheum Theatre N.U.A. room. Seated left to right: Dave Genaro, Lizzy Wilson, Tom Harris, Annie Hart, ...
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Birthday Party at Easter

Date: 04 11 1931
Description: Birthday party for 4-year-old child. Shows 14 children, Easter Bunny chair, and Easter decorations.
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Richard and Malcolm McVicar

Date: 10 28 1930
Description: Richard and Malcolm McVicar celebrating Richard's fourth birthday while sitting in front of a fireplace with a birthday cake and candles. They are sitting ...
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Children's Birthday Party

Date: 09 25 1930
Description: Eleven little girls in party hats sit around a dining table set with a birthday cake and candles, and party favors.
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Children's Birthday Party

Date: 09 25 1930
Description: Group portrait of children at a birthday party. Taken for Mrs. Griffith. Eleven children are sitting in child-sized chairs around a table with a birthday c...
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Girl with Freckles Eating Ice Cream

Date: 08 19 1963
Description: Close-up of a girl with cartoon-decorated balloons eating ice cream at a social.
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Three's Cake

Date: 07 18 1963
Description: Father, mother and daughter all celebrate their special birthday with three candles on one cake.
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Two Boys at Refreshment Counter

Date: 01 09 1956
Description: Rees Thomas and Billy Putnam at an ice skating party at the Truax Field clubhouse refreshment counter holding soda bottles.
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Two Girls Pouring Milk

Date: 10 12 1955
Description: Two West Junior High School eighth graders, Patty Radder and Jean Kelzenberg, pouring glasses of milk for their potluck club supper held at the Radder home...
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Steven Presenza's Sixth Birthday Party

Date: 10 12 1955
Description: Steven Presenza blowing out the candles on the cake at his sixth birthday party. Included are his two sisters, Lorna Presenza and Paula Presenza, as well a...
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Alice at the Great Wisconsin Tailgate

Date: 1998
Description: Courtney Ott, Alice in Dairyland '97, at the Great Wisconsin Tailgate party with actress/comedienne Kathy Griffin. The tailgate party, which was sponsored ...
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Ellen Sabin

Date: 12 02 1944
Description: Miss Ellen Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, cutting the birthday cake at her 94th birthday party hosted by the Milwaukee-Downer club o...
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Fitzpatrick Children's Birthday Party

Date: 01 10 1947
Description: Six young children seated around a table at a birthday party. Taken for Lawrence Fitzpatrick, managing editor of the "Wisconsin State Journal".

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