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Fall Festival Entertainers

Date: 09 08 1930
Description: Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival.
Photograph

Acacia Fraternity Bowery Party

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Acacia fraternity "Bowery" party, with couples in costume. There are many commercial posters and advertising on the wall in the background.
Photograph

American Legion

Date: 01 08 1931
Description: View towards a man dressed as a woman, with his back turned, standing in front of a group of American Legion men posing in a room at the G.A.R. Hall. The m...
Photograph

Shindig at the Teenbeat Club

Date: 1968
Description: Color advertising photograph of teenagers and members of a rock and roll band gathered in and around an International Scout pickup at the Teenbeat Club own...
Photograph

Who's New Club - Barn Dance

Date: 11 19 1948
Description: Members of the Madison Who's New Club at a barn dance at the YWCA gymnasium. Three women wearing bonnets pose next to a statue of Borden's "Elsie the Cow."...
Poster

1972 Peace Festival Ad

Date: 1972
Description: Poster advertising the 1972 Peace Festival at St. John's Lutheran Church. The information on the poster is written within a peace symbol and features the C...
Photograph

Madison Advertising Club Women Plan Club Dinner and Program

Date: 01 14 1952
Description: For the first time in the history of the Madison Advertising Club, the women members are planning the dinner and program to be held at the Hoffman House. H...
Photograph

The Incomparable Hildegarde

Date: 03 1941
Description: Hildegarde Loretta Sell, better known as Hildegarde, was a well known cabaret singer who was born in Adell, Wisconsin in 1906 and raised in New Holstein. D...
Photograph

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...
Print

Superior Milk Dealers Assn., Blueprint

Date: 02 14 1935
Description: Blueprint submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration from the Superior Milk Dealers Association. Features a drawing of the bottle and b...
Photograph

Madison Art Association Beaux Arts Ball

Date: 04 11 1957
Description: Mary Ellen Lathers, Judy Angevine, Alnora M. Lathers, and Jessie C. De Woody apply circus posters to the interior walls of the East Side Business men's clu...
Photograph

Music Trio at the Marine Club

Date: 04 04 1941
Description: Three musicians, from left: male clarinetist, female accordion player and male guitarist standing in front of printed stage screen at the Marine Club.
Poster

Ducks Unlimited Poster

Date: 
Description: Poster for Ducks Unlimited, depicting a duck bowing its head with its bill under a wing. There is a band on the duck's leg. Below, text reads: "Don't Duck ...
Photograph

Ad Club Women's Night

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: "Ads and Fads," Madison Advertising Club Women's Night, was held at the Hoffman House. Members are wearing fashions from the first half of the twentieth ce...
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Ad Club Women's Night

Date: 02 17 1954
Description: "Ads and Fads," Madison Advertising Club Women's Night, was held at the Hoffman House. Members are wearing fashions from the first half of the twentieth ce...

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