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Eight Foot Tall Lawyer

Date: 07 01 1944
Description: Clifford Thompson, the second tallest man in the world, being sworn into the Wisconsin state bar at the Wisconsin State Capitol by Justice Elmer E. Barlow....
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History of the University of Wisconsin Testimonial Luncheon

Date: 02 05 1949
Description: Professors Vernon Carstensen (left) and Merle Curti, with their wives, cutting the ceremonial cake at the testimonial luncheon in their honor as authors of...
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Twin Caskets of Glenn Frank and Glenn, Jr. in the State Capitol

Date: 09 18 1940
Description: Elevated view of the twin caskets of University of Wisconsin president Glenn Frank and Glenn, Jr. in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda at the state funer...
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John R. Commons Birthday Banquet

Date: 10 12 1950
Description: Five of the seven speakers at the John R. Commons birthday banquet Tuesday night in Hotel Loraine gathered for small talk before the banquet. Left to righ...
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Hodding Carter

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Hodding Carter (left), Pulitzer prize-winning editor of the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi speaks with Supreme Court Justice Emmert...
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University Women's Tea

Date: 09 25 1957
Description: Mary McHugh; Marion Ludden; and Alice Wood, editor of the AAUW Bulletin, enjoy tea in the College Club library.
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Press Club Dinner

Date: 03 15 1944
Description: Roundy Coughlin and five women at the head table of the Press Club Dinner at Edgewood College.
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Press Club Dinner

Date: 03 15 1944
Description: Roundy Coughlin standing with a woman behind the head table at a Press Club Dinner at Edgewood College.
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Honorary Degree Recipients, Wisconsin Alumni Association Banquet

Date: 06 03 1961
Description: Seated are, Mrs. Mary Ingraham Bunting, president of Radcliffe College, and Louis P. Lochner, Fair Haven, New Jersey, Pulitzer prize winning foreign corres...
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Portrait of Photographer Edward Steichen

Date: 06 20 1957
Description: The many moods of Edward Steichen (1879-1973), dean of photography, were captured by Wisconsin State Journal photographer Edwin Stein during an info...

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