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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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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 Beta Al Fresco Party

Date: 06 17 1947
Description: Officers of the alumnae group of Phi Beta sorority are shown at the Reid home. Left to right: Mrs. Stuart Reid, president, 724 Blackhawk Avenue; Mrs. W.S. ...
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Alpha Chi Omega Sisters

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Four University of Wisconsin Alpha Chi Omega sorority sisters modeling clothes from "then and now". Pictured from left to right are: Larinice Ballam in a 1...
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Alpha Phi Sorority Garden Tea

Date: 05 16 1948
Description: Alpha Phi sorority, 28 Langdon Street, was the site of a garden party for all sorority women on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Left to right: ...
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Pi Lambda Theta Officers

Date: 05 26 1948
Description: New officers of Pi Lambda Theta, honorary fraternity for women in education. Left to right Margaret Hanlon, treasurer; Alice Rybak, corresponding secretary...
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Zeta Phi Eta Benefit Tea

Date: 06 01 1948
Description: Madison alumnae of Zeta Phi Eta honorary speech sorority, will entertain in a skit, "An Afternoon at Squire Pethrick's." Proceeds from the Centennial tea w...
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Sorority Alumnae Play Cast

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Two alumnae members of the Madison chapter of Phi Beta, speech and music sorority, rehearsing for their part in the "Old English Revels" for members and th...
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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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Pi Lambda Theta

Date: 03 05 1949
Description: Mrs. Lettie P. Trefz, national vice-president of Pi Lambda Theta, stands between Evelyn Simonson (left), vice-president of the Wisconsin chapter, and Doris...
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Sigma Kappa Sorority Prepares their Booth for Campus Carnival

Date: 10 19 1949
Description: Pledges of the University of Wisconsin chapter of Sigma Kappa sorority prepare their booth for the "Campus Carnival," part of the campus combined charity d...
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Theta Sigma Phi Journalism Sorority

Date: 10 20 1949
Description: Miss Dagne Hougstad, 480 N. Baldwin Street, left, president of the Madison alumnae group of Theta Sigma Phi journalism sorority, and Mrs. Betty Hinckle Dun...
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Group Picture: Frat Party

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Description: A fraternity party photographed for Smiles Magazine. Harold Gauer and Alice Bedard sit on a couch while Robert bloch pours a drink for Angie Vail.
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Eating in Fraternity Garb

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Description: Bloch indulging himself while dressed in humorous garb as a fraternity brother. Taken as an illustration for a fraternity article in Smiles magazine...
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Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumni Style Show

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Mrs. Stephen E. (Kathryn) Gavin of 2811 Monroe Street, chairman of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae benefit dessert bridge party and style show, sitting at ri...
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Sorority Marionette Show and Tea Party

Date: 06 26 1950
Description: Six sorority alumnae who were hostesses for the marionette party at the Edgewater Hotel pose for a portrait around a banquet table. Left to right are: Mrs....
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Delta Kappa Gamma Executive Board

Date: 04 03 1951
Description: Group portrait of the members of the Wisconsin Executive Board of the Delta Kappa Gamma Education Sorority, front row, left to right: Edythe Sanderman, Men...
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Hazel Murphy Sullivan

Date: 04 27 1952
Description: Hazel Murphy Sullivan (left), editor of the Sun Prairie Star-Countryman and Wisconsin State Journal correspondent, holds the Writer's cup she...

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