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Acacia Fraternity Bowery Party

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Acacia fraternity "Bowery" party, with couples in costume. There are many commercial posters and advertising on the wall in the background.
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Rudy Vallee and SAE Group

Date: 02 07 1937
Description: Rudy Vallee with eleven members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity wearing hats and coats and posing in front of Chicago and Northwestern railroad passenger...
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Phi Sigma Delta Living Room

Date: 10 24 1933
Description: Phi Sigma Delta, 626 North Henry Street, living room. Room features fireplace, Oriental rug, and a grand piano.
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Phi Kappa Tau Living Room

Date: 05 28 1930
Description: Phi Kappa Tau living room showing trophys and baby grand piano, 615 North Henry Street.
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Phi Gamma Delta Dining Room

Date: 10 02 1928
Description: Phi Gamma Delta fraternity dining room, from great hall and lower hall from dining room, 16 Langdon Street.
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Group of People in Fraternity House

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Description: Group of people in dormitory or fraternity house. Four girls and three men inside room. One girl has a guitar and the other a small megaphone.
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Man in Dormitory

Date: 1900
Description: Man in dormitory or fraternity playing banjo. There are signs that say "University of Missouri" and "Don't be woozy" above the door. There are photos and c...
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Margaret Strahl at a Piano

Date: 02 07 1955
Description: Margaret Strahl, senior at the University of Wisconsin School of Music, sitting at a grand piano at a benefit musicale sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Iota al...
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Patronesses of Sigma Alpha Iota

Date: 02 1955
Description: Patronesses of the University of Wisconsin chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota serve as hostesses at the benefit musicale sponsored by the Madison alumnae group. P...
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Phi Kappa Fraternity Toga Party

Date: 10 17 1952
Description: Phi Kappa Fraternity member strumming a lyre and entertaining a female guest, both in Greek costumes, at a Toga Party Dinner Dance.
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Stone Head Detail

Date: 10 29 1972
Description: Stone carved head detail on the Beta Theta Pi House at 622 Mendota Court.
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Floral Shield Detail

Date: 01 27 1974
Description: Carved stone shield and flower detail on the exterior of the Chi Psi Lodge Fraternity house at 150 Iota Court.
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Student Pledges of Gamma Phi Beta

Date: 10 24 1944
Description: Eight student pledges of Gamma Phi Beta sorority of the University of Wisconsin, gathered for music around a piano. The pledges include, seated: Sally Howe...
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Convalscent Home for Children

Date: 01 30 1947
Description: Listening to the story and music of the Nutcracker Suite are: Buddy Onash, Ft. Atkinson, Dennis Wenger, Madison, patients at the Convalescent Home for Chil...
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Convalescent Home for Children

Date: 01 30 1947
Description: Two children doing craft projects in bed are Myrna Oldenberg, Antigo, and Luann Kelliher, Madison. The activities are under the guidance of Donna Ellis, Sh...
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Kappa Delta Madison Pledges

Date: 10 18 1948
Description: Kappa Delta Madison student pledges are as follows: seated at the piano, Terry De Fazio. Standing left to right: Annette Koss, Karen Ragatz, Nola Mockrud, ...
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Chi Phi Serenaders

Date: 11 22 1948
Description: Forty fraternity men of Chi Phi serenade outside the sorority house of Alpha Phi.
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Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy"

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Church, the Highlands, in costume, posing as actors in a scene from "Taming of the Shrew"; part of a comedy program, "A Combine of ...
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Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy"

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Committee members creating the guest program for "A Combine of Comedy" produced by Phi Beta. Left to right: Mrs. Gordon (Eleanor) Rowley, 904 Oakland Avenu...
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Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy"

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Four women in costume, posing in a scene from "Lyristrata"; part of a comedy program, "A Combine of Comedy" produced by Phi Beta in the play circle of the ...

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