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People's New Year's Party

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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."
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Invitation to Independence Ball

Date: 06 27 1839
Description: Invitation for Darwin Clark to the Independence Ball on the 4th of July, 1839 at the American Hotel.
Photograph

Edgewood Junior Prom

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Description: Group portrait of men and women at the prom.
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Fire Company Invitation

Date: 02 04 1864
Description: Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman...
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Invitation to Fourth Annual Ball

Date: 1876
Description: Invitation to the annual ball at Turner Hall, sponsored by Madison's Andrew Proudfit Steam Fire Engine Company #2. The company, which was organized in 1870...
Photograph

Buttered Corn

Date: 09 30 1959
Description: A boy eating buttered corn on the cob at a Golden Spike Day party.
Photograph

Man and Mermaid

Date: 08 21 1963
Description: Couple poses behind carnival cutout of a sailor and mermaid.
Photograph

Kehl Dance Class

Date: 1907
Description: Dance class in the ballroom at the Kehl School of Dance, Madison, Wisconsin. Professor Kehl stands at the lower right, while a row of mothers watch from b...
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May Party Invitation

Date: 05 02 1882
Description: Illustrated invitation to a May Party at Liederkranz Hall given by the Makers and Sawyers of Milwaukee. The invitation is illustrated in color with a hors...
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Military Ball Invitation

Date: 04 29 1882
Description: Printed invitation to the 2nd annual military ball of the Light Horse Squadron of Milwaukee. The invitation is printed in blue and gold and features illust...
Photograph

Masonic Party

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Description: A group of children and adults pose in blackface at a Masonic party.
Photograph

Sigrid Schultz, William Dodd, and Joseph Goebbels

Date: 12 01 1934
Description: Sigrid Schultz, Ambassador William Dodd, and Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels seen together at the foreign press ball.
Photograph

Alice at the Great Wisconsin Tailgate

Date: 1998
Description: Courtney Ott, Alice in Dairyland '97, at the Great Wisconsin Tailgate party with actress/comedienne Kathy Griffin. The tailgate party, which was sponsored ...
Photograph

Rocky Roost

Date: 1905
Description: Rocky Roost, the Lamp family cottage, located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota, decorated for a party. Shown from the left are Matilda Lamp Lueder...
Photograph

Proudfit Wedding Party

Date: 12 05 1898
Description: Wedding party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Proudfit on their fifteenth anniversary.
Photograph

Wedding Party

Date: 12 05 1898
Description: The fifteenth anniversary party of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Proudfit, Madison, Wisconsin. All guests wore their own wedding clothes. Seated on floor, left to ...
Photograph

Engagement Party of Cyrus McCormick III and Dorothy Linn

Date: 1915
Description: Cyrus McCormick III (1890-1970), his fiancée Dorothy Linn (b. 1892), his mother Harriet Hammond McCormick (1862-1921), his father Cyrus McCormick Jr. (1859...
Photograph

Lew Burdette's Decorated Home

Date: 10 1957
Description: Crowd in front of the home of Lew Burdette after the Milwaukee Braves defeated the New York Yankees to win the 1957 World Series. Pitcher Burdette won thr...
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Eddie Carthan Victory Party

Date: 1983
Description: Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought...
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Pela Rosen Alpert and Richard Alpert at their Engagement Party

Date: 10 1949
Description: From left: Mr. and Mrs. Blum (relatives), Pela Rosen Alpert, Richard Alpert, at their engagement party in the house of Pela's sister.

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