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Four Women at YWCA Tea

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: Silver tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Shown seated are Mae Loeffelbein, Anna Johnson, Madeleine Johnson, and H...
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Women at YWCA Tea

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: Group of women surrounding a serving table at the Silver Tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street.
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League of Women Voters Garden Party

Date: 07 24 1944
Description: Governor Walter Goodland is holding two of ten puppies during the League of Women Voters garden party at the Governor's Residence. Shown with the Governor ...
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League of Women Voters Garden Party

Date: 07 24 1944
Description: League of Women Voters garden party attended by more than 1,000 people. It was held at the Governor's Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. At the punch table...
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Tea at the Governor's Residence

Date: 10 01 1944
Description: Officers of the Wisconsin Business and Professional Women's Club attending a tea at the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Left to right around th...
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Judge Levi B. Vilas Residence

Date: 1940
Description: An exterior view of the Levi B. Vilas mansion at the corner of Henry and Langdon Streets. Built about 1850, it later became a fraternity house for Phi Gamm...
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Vilas Mansion

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Description: View from across Langdon Street looking toward the residence of Levi B. Vilas. Built in 1851, the house was later used by the Phi Gamma Delta and then Sig...
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Levi B. and Ester Smilie Vilas Mansion

Date: 1950
Description: An exterior view of the Levi B. and Ester Smilie Vilas mansion, located at 521 North Henry Street. Built around 1851, the house was later used by the Phi G...
Postcard

Deutscher Club

Date: 1905
Description: Club building exterior. Club has three levels, with a five story tower. Originally a home turned into a club, the building has many windows, a few balconie...
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Madison Business and Professional Women's Club

Date: 10 12 1948
Description: Group portrait of three members of the scholarship committee of the Madison Business and Profession Women's Club meeting at the residence of the governor w...
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Zor Shrine Wive's Tea Party

Date: 11 22 1949
Description: Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm hosts shriners' wives at a tea party at the executive residence. Shown with Mrs. Rennebohm are Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) Nelson, left, and M...
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Zor Shrive Wive's Tea

Date: 11 22 1949
Description: Mrs. Nathan Nelson of Montfort, left, visits with one of the hostesses, Mrs. Earle S. (Bertha) Lewis, at the tea for Shriners' wives at the governor's resi...
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New Candelabras at New Governors Mansion

Date: 02 02 1950
Description: Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm (left), Mrs. Oscar Toebaas, Mrs. H. Lewis Greene, and Mrs. Foster Blackburn admire the twin silver candelabras which the Dane County W...
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Speaker and Crowd

Date: 1940
Description: View from across street of a crowd sitting on the porch, lawn and street in front of the Elks Lodge (Al. Ringling house) listening to a speaker standing at...
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Mineral Point Players

Date: 07 05 1954
Description: A scene from the Mineral Point Players' production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." James Dolan enacts the role of Moonlight by standing on an...
Manuscript

The Death Of A Mansion

Date: 03 1952
Description: An invitation to “A Black Masque and Ball Macabre at the DOOMED McCORMICK MANSION.” The mansion was the former residence of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hall McCormi...
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Wisconsin League of Women Voters Legislative School Tea

Date: 04 11 1957
Description: Members of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters enjoying tea at the executive mansion following a session at the Wisconsin State Capitol for the league's l...
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Wisconsin League of Women Voters Legislative School Tea

Date: 04 11 1957
Description: Four Madison members of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters enjoying tea at the Executive Mansion after a session at the Wisconsin State Capitol for the l...
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Wisconsin League of Women Voters Legislative School Tea

Date: 04 11 1957
Description: Wisconsin's governor's wife Helen Thomson, (left) greets Mrs. Ruth Kearl of Madison at a tea in the executive mansion for the Wisconsin League of Women Vot...
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Wisconsin League of Women Voters Legislative School Tea

Date: 04 11 1957
Description: First vice-president of the Wisconsin League of Women Voters, Mrs. Ernest T. Clough of Milwaukee, serving tea at the executive mansion after a session at t...

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