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Description: | Poster advertising the Peoples' New Year's Party at the Langston Huges [sic] Center. Includes the motto "Same struggle — same fight." |
Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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Description: | Members of Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation) at a holiday costume party. |
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Description: | Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America. |
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Description: | The ice palace at the St. Paul Ice Carnival. People are on and around a scaffold in the left foreground carving busts out of ice. Blocks of ice are on the ... |
Date: | 10 27 1950 |
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Description: | Pictured are (L to R): Kenneth Chorly (Pres. of Colonial Williamsburg), Dr. Tom D. Rowe (Chair of National Pharmacy Week), and Robert P. Fischelis (Secret... |
Date: | 06 27 1839 |
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Description: | Invitation for Darwin Clark to the Independence Ball on the 4th of July, 1839 at the American Hotel. |
Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
Date: | 11 25 1965 |
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Description: | A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him. |
Date: | 01 30 1958 |
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Description: | A teacher answers a student's question as the other students cut hearts from construction paper to make valentine cards. |
Date: | 10 30 1940 |
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Description: | Group portrait of adults in Halloween costumes in the Colonial Room at the Loraine Hotel. |
Date: | 04 28 1935 |
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Description: | First Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Easter pageant "At Dawning," with a large group of actors in costume in a scene on "stage" in the chancel. |
Date: | 04 20 1935 |
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Description: | First Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Avenue. Easter pageant, with large group of actors in costume in a scene on "stage" in the chancel. |
Date: | 05 12 1934 |
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Description: | Group portrait of ten Norwegian folk dancers in costume, coached by John Odden, and Harold Smedal holding a Hardanger violin, who will perform for the Sons... |
Date: | 02 22 1932 |
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Description: | The John Bell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution present a tableau of Martha Washington's life at the Hotel Loraine for the bicentennial o... |
Date: | 12 31 1930 |
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Description: | Group of people drinking coffee and being served donuts on New Year's Eve at the Strand Theater. In the center is a sign for the "Just Imagine" movie. |
Date: | 01 16 1976 |
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Description: | Portrait of Guy Lombardo, bandleader of the Royal Canadians. He and his orchestra were famous for their traditional performance on New Year's Eve at the Wa... |
Date: | 05 1946 |
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Description: | Marge Bong and General Kenney standing by a bust of Major Richard Ira Bong (1920-1945), at the Richard Bong Memorial dedication on Memorial Day. |
Date: | 05 31 1955 |
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Description: | Veterans of World War I were among the participants in the Memorial Day parade. From left to right are Frank Austin, Frank Hermen and Peter C. Vanden Hueve... |
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Description: | Santa Claus talks on a telephone seated in a Christmas display in Manchester's Department Store. |
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Description: | Santa Claus standing and waving in a Christmas display at Manchester's Department Store. |
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