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Straus Printing Company

Date: 10 21 1955
Description: Two men reading a letter at the Straus Creative Printers and Lithographers located at 1028 East Washington Avenue. There is a photograph of a pin-up girl o...
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Music Rings Out from Campus

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Lois Mattison, from Stoughton and attending the University of Wisconsin Summer Music Clinic, is taking time out to write a letter to her boyfriend using he...
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Mailing Letters from a Car

Date: 01 20 1959
Description: A driver mails a letter in a roadside mailbox from a car on the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a long-lens camera.
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Madison Post Office Christmas Rush

Date: 12 16 1953
Description: Postal employee, Harry Bunbury, receiving bundles of Christmas cards from inside the letter window at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. Bundl...
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Roundy's Fun Fund Plaque Presented to Volunteer Mrs. Leia Josephson

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: A Roundy's Fun Fund plaque is presented to Mrs. Leia Josephson (L), 225 Van Deusen Street by Joseph (Roundy) Couglin (Middle), Wisconsin State Journal colu...
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Fraternity Rush

Date: 09 23 1957
Description: Group of men on Langdon Street either participating in Fraternity Rush or watching women participate in Sorority Rush.
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Homecoming at the University of Wisconsin

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: The prize-winning UW-Madison homecoming decoration at the Chi Phi Fraternity.
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Homecoming at the University of Wisconsin

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: Decoration for the UW-Madison homecoming at the Chi Omega sorority on Langdon street.
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Panhellenic Ball

Date: 02 26 1954
Description: Walking up the steps toward Great Hall in Memorial Union at the ball are Kenneth Decker and Joyce Raymond.
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Nancy Knight

Date: 11 30 1960
Description: Helping to plan a Christmas party for the Daughters of Demeter is decorations chairman Nancy Knight. She will decorate with greens in contemporary style.
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Harriet Irwin, a high school graduating senior, opening her invitation to the tea sponsored by the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council.
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Society Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Mary Royston and Patricia Mathison looking over responses from invitations to the tea for graduating high school seniors sponsored by the Madison Alumne Pa...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Musicale

Date: 01 24 1961
Description: Madison alumnae members of Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music sorority, making plans for benefit musicale and tea at the home of Constance Elvehjem. Pict...
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Delta Tau Delta's Christmas Party

Date: 12 1954
Description: Charlene Bainbrough and Kathy Daly eating ice cream at Delta Tau Delta's Christmas party for children of the South Side Community Center.
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Louise Watson and Joan Jennerjohn, members of the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council, showing sorority pins to be displayed at the tea for graduating seni...
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Sigma Alpha Iota Benefit Musicale

Date: 01 24 1961
Description: Madison alumnae members of Sigma Alpha Iota, professional music sorority, making plans for a benefit musicale and tea to be held at the home of Constance E...
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"Jacks" Tournament at University of Wisconsin Sorority

Date: 03 27 1954
Description: A large group of University of Wisconsin students playing jacks, while sitting on the floor during a tournament at the Alpha Phi House. One female student...
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Delta Tau Delta's Christmas Party

Date: 12 1954
Description: Fraternity member, Ted Stowe, playing piano as black and white children sing along at the Christmas party for the children of the South Side Community Cent...
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Three University of Wisconsin students looking over the booklet "Rushing Ups and Downs" which will be distributed at the tea for high school graduating sen...
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Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council Tea

Date: 08 1955
Description: Three graduating seniors model clothing especially suitable for college life at the tea sponsored by the Madison Alumnae Panhellenic Council. The models ar...

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