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Kessenich's Clothing Model

Date: 08 10 1938
Description: Model standing on step stool wearing hat and gloves, with fur collar coat, dress shoes, and carrying a purse. Part of the fashion series from Kessenich's R...
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Kessenich's Clothing Model

Date: 08 10 1938
Description: Model standing on step stool wearing hat and gloves, with fur collar coat, dress shoes, and carrying a purse. Part of a fashion series from Kessenich's Rea...
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Kessenich's Clothing Model

Date: 08 10 1938
Description: Model wearing hat, dress with jacket trimmed in fur, and carrying a purse, is standing on blocks in front of the dressing rooms at Kessenich's Dry Goods st...
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Two Fashion Models

Date: 03 02 1933
Description: Helen Slinde modeling "Marlene Dietrich" trousers suit and Mary Lou Kaltenbach modeling a dress suit with fur piece. Both are wearing hats and gloves.
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Miss America Models Formal Wear

Date: 10 06 1930
Description: Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, models a blue and rose Moire evening gown with a short white Dolman fur wrap, at the Burdick & Murray Department Store.
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Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 22 1949
Description: Sigrid Schultz, foreign correspondent and speaker at the annual Matrix banquet sponsored by the University of Wisconsin chapter of Theta Sigma Phi at the M...
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Mowrer-Cole Wedding

Date: 04 28 1939
Description: The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel...
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Madison Women's Service Club Presidents

Date: 02 16 1954
Description: Presidents of the three Madison service clubs for executive women confer on plans for the annual joint meeting of the three clubs. From left to right are: ...
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Pioneer Pauline Frederick

Date: 03 1949
Description: Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome...
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Historical Society Founder's Day Banquet

Date: 02 1959
Description: Attending the State Historical Society Founder's Day banquet are, left to right, W.B. Hesseltine, University of Wisconsin history professor; Dr. Donald R. ...
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Panhellenic Council Style Show

Date: 04 12 1961
Description: Jane Montgomery and Mrs. Werner Wilking are two of the models that will participate in the annual spring fashion show of the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Co...
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Oakes Family

Date: 1910
Description: Bundled up in winter clothes, the Oakes Family poses outside the family home on the front walk. Snow covers the ground. The group includes (left to right):...
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Annual Panhellenic Style Show

Date: 04 14 1964
Description: Two of the models for the annual Panhellenic style show. JoAnne Hedlin is on the left and Nadine Shapiro is on the right.
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Dane County Republican Women's Club Luncheon and Fur Style Program

Date: 10 27 1965
Description: Dane County Republican Women's Club hosts a luncheon and fur style show program at the Maple Bluff County Club. Shown modeling fur jackets are (L-R) Mrs. D...
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Audience for a Beauty Pageant

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Description: Formally dressed audience members are watching a beauty pageant in a smoky beer hall. The men are wearing suits with ties; the women are wearing dresses an...
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Tea for Lawyers' Wives

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: Officers of the State and Dane County Lawyers' Wives Association at a tea at the governor's mansion for members from area counties. In front are Helen Thom...
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College Women's Fashions

Date: 08 04 1960
Description: A model poses by loading dock doors. Sue Reynoldson wears a beige cocktail dress that's cuffed in lynx. Miss Reynoldson attends Rollins College, Winter Par...
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Volunteers at the Nixon-Lodge Campaign Headquarters

Date: 10 16 1960
Description: Volunteers at the local Nixon-Lodge presidential campaign headquarters, 123 East Mifflin Street, plan for coffee hours to watch a 22-minute telecast film o...

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