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Female Kitchen Staff at Luther College

Date: 1876
Description: Women kitchen staff posed by tables set for a meal at Luther College. "View of the Dining Hall" as identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Vie...
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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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WHA Radio Station Program

Date: 01 1948
Description: Dr. Robert West, director of the University of Wisconsin speech clinic, and Martha Heffernen, psychologist, broadcast the WHA radio station "Our Children" ...
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Composer Prof. Oskar Hagen and Conductor Dr. Bjornar Bergethon

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Composer Prof. Oskar Hagen and conductor Dr. Bjornar Bergethon confer on Hagen's chorus composition "Carducciana" written for the Philharmonic Chorus of Ma...
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University of Wisconsin Panel for "Parade Magazine"

Date: 11 16 1949
Description: Six University of Wisconsin students and one professor sitting on a panel to record their aspirations for the second half of the twentieth century for "Par...
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University Extension League Style Show

Date: 01 30 1950
Description: Three of 15 models who will display play dresses, hats, coats, suits, robes and evening gowns at the meeting of the University Extension League are, from l...
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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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Culling Demonstration

Date: 05 1919
Description: A group of individuals are gathered outdoors to examine chickens during a culling demonstration conducted by Professor Carrick of Purdue University.
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Female Kitchen Staff at Luther College - Anaglyph

Date: 1876
Description: Women kitchen staff posed by tables set for a meal at Luther College. "View of the Dining Hall" as identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Vie...
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Handing Out the Big Bucks

Date: 08 1995
Description: Congressman David R. Obey presents a big check to representatives of Nicolet College. As chairman or ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee O...
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Indian Ambassador to the United States

Date: 06 23 1956
Description: Guest speaker at the Students from India Attending Mid-Western Colleges and Universities convention is G.L Mehta, second from left, India's ambassador to t...
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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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State Commission on Human Rights Officers

Date: 03 12 1959
Description: Newly elected officers of the State Commission on Human Rights. "They are, left to right, the Rev. Perry Saito, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, Stev...
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Buckeye Calendar — February and March

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar with the months of February and March, 1893. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on the top of a globe. She is holding a wreath, and is re...
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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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Law Firm Secretary to be Queen at University of Notre Dame

Date: 10 04 1957
Description: Carol Laufenberg, a Madison law firm secretary, boarding a plane headed for the University of Notre Dame where she will be queen of the Arts and Letters Ba...

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