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| Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and women at the Madison Dye Works party. Included in the portrait on the left is an accordion player. One man sitting on the floor ... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Members of Ethlyn Jefferds' dancing class, fifth and sixth grade students from Shorewood, Randall, and Lakewood schools, attending their first costume ball... |
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| Description: | Amusing portrait of the gang "spoofing" jazz and beatnik culture. Alice Bedard is receiving a hypo injection labeled "JAZZ" from harold Gauer while Robert ... |
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| Description: | A couple dances behind an oversized cut-out of a bottle of Seagrams Whiskey, with other people seated around them. Some are wearing fake eyes. |
| Date: | 12 21 1951 |
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| Description: | The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group gathered in the gymnasium of the Woldale Rural School for a Christmas "hobo" party. Attendees are dressed as "hobos." The original caption notes that... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Young men and women standing on a platform in a school gymnasium dressed as hobos for a "Hobo" party at Woldale Rural School. A basketball hoop is in the b... |
| Date: | 07 28 1953 |
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| Description: | William and Audrey Hobbins cooking a hot dog on the grill at the Mendota Yacht Club beachcombers party. |
| Date: | 07 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Douglas and Betty Oldenburg testing the barbecued meat at Blackhawk Country Club's Western Party. |
| Date: | 01 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Ruben Gold Thwaites, Iva Welsh, and Mary Foster dressed as "Box and Cox" and Mrs. Bouncer from the 1840's comedy Box and Cox. They are at a costume ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | "Blase beyond words were these three Shorewood women who came to the party in the abbreviated, waist-less, low-necked frocks characteristic of the 1920s." ... |
| Date: | 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Party following the Frings and Ouellette wedding. The photographer reported "the party is getting raucous." |
| Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "Willie Peacock, Charleston, Mississippi, field secretary for Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commission, discussing the Summ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Dousman family and house party guests dressed for a fancy ball. They are posed on the staircase and in the hall and are wearing fancy dress or costumes. On... |
| Date: | 07 1962 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sid standing with another man at a gathering. Both men are wearing suits and have cigars in their mouths. Two women are in the background on th... |
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| Description: | Sid (center) is hoisting up his shirt and exposing his stomach in a roomful of male colleagues. One man standing near him is holding a drinking glass with ... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and women sitting at a table in the corner of a room, perhaps a restaurant, at a birthday party. There is a cake with candles in the ... |
| Date: | 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Two male employees of Gisholt Machine Company advertise an upcoming holiday party at 1540 Morrison Street. One of the them, formally dressed in suit and ti... |
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| Description: | Two men enjoying the festivities in a front yard at the Mifflin Street Block Party. A crowd is standing along the sidewalk in the background. |
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