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Elks Cross Country Car

Date: 06 03 1931
Description: Elks Magazine purple and white free wheeling Studebaker President 8 roadster convertible parked in front of the Elks Club, 120-124 Monona Avenue. The car's...
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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.
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Acacia Fraternity Nut Party

Date: 03 23 1935
Description: Group portrait of Acacia fraternity members and their dates, at 108 Langdon Street, at a nut party. The group is posing with many advertisement posters whi...
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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...
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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...
Book or Pamphlet

International Motor Trucks with Special Bodies for Bus and Transfer Service

Date: 1916
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1916 line of International motor trucks with special bodies for bus and transfer service. Features an image ...
Poster

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Poster

Date: 06 1924
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...
Print

Coolidge in Wisconsin

Date: 1928
Description: "Keep Cool with Coolidge in Wisconsin This Summer." A stamp presumably issued by the Outdoor Club of Wisconsin, to promote tourism in northern Wisconsin. I...
Photograph

American Dairy Association Group Portrait

Date: 1947
Description: American Dairy Association truck with 17 men standing in front. Six faces of men are imposed over the building in the background above the truck.
Poster

Tomahawk Ridge Ski Jumping Championships

Date: 01 1971
Description: Poster for the Tomahawk Ridge Ski Jumping Championships, held Sunday, January 24, 1971. An official Central U.S. Ski Association Meet, sponsored by the Bl...
Photograph

Madison Business College Spring Formal

Date: 05 02 1949
Description: Members of the advertising committee for the Madison Business College's spring formal are working on a huge streamer sign for the party. Seated at left is ...
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Bosses Night Dinner for Madison Advertising Club

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Six of the people at the speakers table for the Madison Advertising Club's "Bosses Night" dinner at the Hotel Loraine. From left are Karl Eisele, club pres...
Print

Eighteenth Annual National Encampment of G.A.R.

Date: 1884
Description: Advertisement for the selling of tents for the Eighteenth Annual National Encampment, of Grand Army of the Republic, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 23,...
Photograph

Madison Advertising Club Bosses' Dinner

Date: 05 21 1952
Description: Left to right at the head table of the Madison Advertising Club Bosses' dinner are: Ralph O'Connor, WISC manager and club president; Burton Bigelow, sales ...
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...
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Madison Advertising Club's Banquet

Date: 02 13 1958
Description: Shown are Jack Stephan, left, and Thomas Towell, right, who both run their own ad agencies. In the center is Frank Hepland, main speaker at the event, and ...
Photograph

Madison Advertising Club's Banquet

Date: 02 13 1958
Description: In attendance at the Madison Advertising Club's Banquet are, (seated) Pauline Harker (Kramer Picture Co.) and Helen Klieforth (United Givers Fund). Standin...
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Madison Advertising Essay Contest

Date: 04 09 1959
Description: Portrait of the four judges and event chairman for the annual essay contest for the Madison high schools, sponsored by the Madison Advertising Club. The es...
Photograph

Madison Advertising Club Award

Date: 02 20 1961
Description: Arthur Towell (center), president of the Arthur Towell advertising agency, receives the Silver Medal Advertising Award at a meeting of the Madison Advertis...
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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.

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