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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a chromolithograph illustration of angels flying over a field to herald the new century. The title reads: "The Os... |
| Date: | 06 1924 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the first annual Spring Festival and Entertainment event held on June 14, 1924 by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). There is an ima... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Billboard urging Wisconsin motorists to obey the 55 miles per hour speed limit that is illustrated with a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual lea... |
| Date: | 02 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Poster or display board describing an expedition across Africa with an International truck. The truck used for the expedition was later promoted by the com... |
| Date: | 11 24 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster collage advertising events occurring at the University of Wisconsin-Madison University Catholic Center. Includes sermons, discussions and gathering... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis... |
| Date: | 09 16 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok... |
| Date: | 04 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of the Madison chapter of Hadassah at the first annual donor luncheon at the Hotel Loraine. Pictured is Mrs. E.M. (Anita) Weinshel seated at th... |
| Date: | 04 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of six Lutheran pastors from south central Wisconsin who have formed a basketball team to play Milwaukee area Lutheran pastors in a benefit ... |
| Date: | 02 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Radical Zionist Alliance's Radical National Convention. Caption around picture of guerrilla reads, "Be a revolutionary in Zion, ... |
| Date: | 03 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of seven men involved in the Bethel Lutheran Church campaign to raise $100,000 in 100 weeks for a new Sunday school building. Seated left to... |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Six women in ethnic dress are shown standing behind decorated lunch baskets. They are at the first social event held in Our Lady Queen of Peace's new scho... |
| Date: | 11 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Seated at the head table of the fund raising banquet for the "Northlight," a new publication of Catholic University of Wisconsin students are, left to righ... |
| Date: | 12 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Some of the girls of the Blessed Sacrament Girls Choral group prepare for a cantata to be performed to raise money to purchase the grand piano in the pictu... |
| Date: | 01 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Christine, daughter of John E. and Doris Anderson, and church treasurer Russell Sackett participate in a mortgage burning ceremony at First Congregational ... |
| Date: | 01 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the principal participants in a mortgage burning ceremony at First Congregational Church, 1609 University Avenue. The congregation is cel... |
| Date: | 02 12 1950 |
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| Description: | A mortgage burning ceremony was held at the South Shore Methodist Church, 610 Olin Avenue, and more than 100 persons participated. The church was built and... |
| Date: | 04 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor (left) presents a check to Marcia Pilon, an Edgewood College freshman, for her prize-winning poster for the Society for the Prop... |
| Date: | 04 17 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of Westminster Presbyterian Church members in old fashioned dress recreate an old-time singing school as a fund raiser to bring five displaced pers... |
| Date: | 11 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Three women working in the kitchen of the newly-completed Temple Beth El on Arbor Drive. Three chairmen of the upcoming bazaar are, left to right: Mrs. Har... |
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