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| Description: | Max and Ruth Distenfeld stand under a stairway at a costume party. Max is wearing a hat made of newspaper and a badge that reads committee, while Ruth is w... |
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| Description: | Gauer and friends in costume at a party. In the back row from left to right are Angie Vail, Ruth Distenfeld, Bob Vail, Mary Jo Vonier, Harold Gauer, Ruth C... |
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| Description: | Costume party picture of Angie Vail (nee Siajn) taken by Harold Gauer at the Brady Street apartment. The party was during the war years. On the wall a smal... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 05 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the officers of the Shorewood Hills League elected at the annual spring party at the Blackhawk Country Club. Seated, left to right, are M... |
| Date: | 05 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Madison Wellesley College Club are pictured as they discussed plans for the benefit dessert bridge party which the club will hold at th... |
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| Description: | A mildly risqué party scene with (from left to right) Alice Bedard, Robert Vail, unidentified, Robert Bloch, and Angie Vail, all in various costumes. Strea... |
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| Description: | A group portrait of various costumed party attendees, including Chester Vonier (night editor at the Milwaukee Sentinel, wearing strongman garb and f... |
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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: | 06 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Six firefighters are shown at First Assistant Fire Chief Leonard Sime's retirement party inside the Central Fire Station, 18 South Webster Street. Lieutena... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Six sorority alumnae who were hostesses for the marionette party at the Edgewater Hotel pose for a portrait around a banquet table. Left to right are: Mrs.... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Jack Severson provide entertainment during the marionette show "Holiday on Strings" as part of the sorority marionette show and tea party at t... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Professor Henry L. Ewbank of the University of Wisconsin speech department admires the marionette "Casper Cadaver" being manipulated by Ethel Miller at the... |
| Date: | 06 25 1950 |
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| Description: | Cameron Thompson, age three, showing her puppet to Mrs. William S. Hooper of Minneapolis and to Gail and Jacqueline Harmon during the sorority marionette s... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | The buffet table at the Governor's residence is set up to welcome a group of nationally-known travel editors to Wisconsin. The buffet table includes an "Am... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Children are entertained by marionettes at the sorority marionette show and tea party at the Edgewater Hotel. |
| Date: | 06 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Children who came to the UNICO festival in Brittingham Park gather around a soap box derby car for a group portrait. The festival is sponsored by the Madis... |
| Date: | 07 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the committee in charge of arrangements for the dance to be held at the Blackhawk Country club in Shorewood Hills for the senior ... |
| Date: | 07 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of the social committee for the Inland Lakes Regatta prepare the decorations at the Maple Bluff Country Club for some of the parties to be held dur... |
| Date: | 08 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Three men stand behind a group of men and women seated at a banquet table in the Indian Room at the Monona Hotel, for a Gunderson-Finn party. |
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