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"Dance Marathon and Party"
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Poster advertising a dance marathon and party held in the Witte Hall Party Room on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Features caricatured figures of President and Mrs. Nixon dancing.
March 27, 1971
Jerky Joe
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Dance Benefit Poster
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