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People's New Year's Party

Date: 
Description: Poster advertising the Peoples' New Year's Party at the Langston Huges [sic] Center. Includes the motto "Same struggle — same fight."
Print

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.
Print

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...
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

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

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

New Year's Eve Party at Deutschkron Apartment

Date: 1946
Description: New Year's Eve party at Deutschkron apartment. Eva Lauffer Deutschkron second from left in foreground, Martin Deutschkron is at far right; Berlin.
Photograph

Holocaust Survivors at Party

Date: 1947
Description: Party for Holocaust survivors bound for Palestine. Walter Wolf Peltz is in center foreground; Memmingen, Germany.
Poster

Mifflin Street Party

Date: 04 03 1971
Description: Poster advertising a party on Mifflin Street. Features an image of a smiling face and a quotation from Jon Donne which reads, "For God's sake hold thy tong...
Poster

2nd Annual Miffland Party

Date: 09 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising the "Second Annual Day of Interdependence Comemerating [sic] the Declaration of Miffland." Features a caricatured Mifflin Co-op and two ...
Photograph

Belfrage and Robeson

Date: 1958
Description: Cedric Belfrage (center), exiled editor of the "National Guardian," at a party for Paul Robeson. The man on the left is Canon Stanley Evans.
Photograph

Farewell to Belfrage

Date: 1955
Description: Farewell party for Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" at the newspaper's office. Identified in the crowd is Paul Robeson, a longtime supporter of t...
Photograph

Secretary Aspin

Date: 12 21 1993
Description: Les Aspin (second from the right) served as Secretary of Defense during the administration of President Clinton. He is seen here at the Pentagon holiday pa...
Photograph

Birthday Party Group Portrait

Date: 
Description: An outdoor group portrait of a birthday party. A cake with many candles and a lace tablecloth sits on a table in front. Most of the party are dressed up. N...
Photograph

Loftus & Earl

Date: 1990
Description: Former Governor Anthony Earl and Assemblyman Thomas Loftus chat at a gathering of statewide Democratic leaders that honored Marlin Schneider. President Cli...
Photograph

Happy Birthday Medicare

Date: 07 29 1995
Description: At a celebration for the 30th anniversary of Medicare, Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and guests blow out the candles on a cake.

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