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Scenes from Madison Barbershops

Date: 09 29 1953
Description: Barber Henry Palan cutting the hair of Billy Mayer in the Park Hotel barbershop.
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Chef at Capital Hotel

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: A chef working in a large kitchen. He is wearing a white chef's coat, tall hat and crisply pressed apron, and is standing next to an industrial-sized stove...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Four members of the decorations committee survey their handiwork. Left to right are: Reed Cole...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Joan Fagan, general chairperson for the ball, is helped with her coat by Denny Cosgrove. She i...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Walking up the stairs to the Crystal Ballroom are Mary Ann Hand, who was in charge of freshman...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Tom Stephan holds a box containing a corsage for his dance date, Jean McFarland. Standing on a...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. This is the woodwind section with saxophones and clarinet of Eddie Lawrence's band, which play...
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Belmont Hotel Barber Shop

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Parakeet Mike posing on one blade of a pair of scissors belonging to barber Roy Brumley, who works at the Belmont Hotel barber shop. Brumley is holding the...
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Belmont Hotel Barber Shop

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Barber Roy Brumley giving Dan Seligman a haircut while his two pet parakeets are perched on each of his shoulders, at the Belmont Hotel barbershop. Seligma...
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Belmont Hotel Barber Shop

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Barber Roy Brumley's two pet parakeets are perching on his shoulders as he is cutting hair at the Belmont Hotel's barbershop.
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Belmont Hotel Barber Shop

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Parakeets Mike and Mac perching in their playground in the Belmont Hotel's barbershop. The wooden jungle gym that is sitting on top of their cage includes ...
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United Commercial Travelers Banquet

Date: 02 06 1954
Description: Members of the Capital City Chapter of the United Commercial Travelers Association attending a banquet at the Park Hotel. Left to right are: Anthony and Ha...
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United Commercial Travelers Banquet

Date: 02 06 1954
Description: Members of the Capital City Chapter of the United Commercial Travelers Association attending a banquet at the Park Hotel. Left to right are: the guest of h...
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United Commercial Travelers Banquet

Date: 02 06 1954
Description: Members of the Capital City Chapter of the United Commercial Travelers Association attending a banquet at the Park Hotel. Sitting at the table are: John Gr...
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United Commercial Travelers Banquet

Date: 02 06 1954
Description: Members of the Capital City chapter of the United Commercial Travelers Association attending a banquet at the Park Hotel. Left to right: Muriel Heim, Mrs. ...
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Launch of "This is Wisconsin" Booklet-State Map Surrounded by Wisconsin Grown Foods

Date: 03 29 1954
Description: Food from every food-producing county in the state and seventy-one candles - one for each county - frames a 25-foot long map of Wisconsin at the preview ev...
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We Saw You . . . at the Telephone Convention

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 West Washington Avenue. Shown are (left to right): T.H. San...
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We Saw You . . . at the Telephone Convention

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 West Washington Avenue. Watching a telephone demonstration ...
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We Saw You . . . at the Telephone Convention

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 W. Washington Avenue. Shown standing at the registration de...
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We Saw You . . . at the Telephone Convention

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 W. Washington Avenue. Presenting at one of the panel discus...

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