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John Pritzlaff Hardware Co.

Date: 02 22 1899
Description: The facade of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Co., on the back cover of the Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu.
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Gettysburg Battle Field Memorial Association

Date: 1895
Description: Certificate appointing Lucius Fairchild as the director of the Gettysburg Battle Field Memorial Association. The certificate is decorated with oval portrai...
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15th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Flag

Date: 
Description: Drawing of older gentleman presenting the regimental flag of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, presumably at a Grand Army of the Republic meeting. The image is ...
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Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: 1941 Season Trip #3 Highlights

Date: 07 22 1941
Description: Scrapbook page of trip highlights from a bike hosteling trip to Pine Bluff (Dane County), Sauk City (Sauk County), and Okee (Columbia County), sponsored by...
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Neighborhood House Album: Woodwork

Date: 1934
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with young men in a wood shop using hammers, saws, and other woodworking tools.
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Neighborhood House Album: Tin Cans Clean-up

Date: 04 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of Boy Scouts and some of the 12,000 tin cans they collected in a neighborhood clean-up campaig...
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Neighborhood House Album: Boy Scouts

Date: 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with three images of a Boy Scout troop: a group portrait in front of the settlement house with men and boys ...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club

Date: 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of the Garden Club posing in their yards or next to their plants. Started in 1931 as part of...
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Victory Convention Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Victory Convention, with an illustration by R. Hesselgrave of a train full of passengers waving flags, hea...
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International Brotherhood of Magicians Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Ring 31 of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, with the seal of the IBM and a cartoon by Wayne D. Peterson (?) of Ben Bergor with a r...
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Gridiron Club Annual Dinner Menu

Date: 03 15 1969
Description: Front and back of two-sided menu for the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Herbert Lawrence Block (who signed his work as "Herblock") o...
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Gridiron Club Annual Dinner Menu

Date: 04 08 1972
Description: Front and back of two-sided menu for the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Eldon Pletcher of club president (Edgar A. Poe?) posing with...
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Gridiron Club Annual Dinner Menu

Date: 03 20 1965
Description: Front and back of the menu for the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Jim Berryman of club president (Frederic W. Collins?) holding alof...
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Gridiron Club Annual Dinner Menu

Date: 04 25 1964
Description: Front and back of a menu for the annual dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by Jim Berryman of club president Fletcher Knebel wearing a gridiron me...
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Gridiron Club Spring Dinner Menu

Date: 05 10 1947
Description: Foldout menu for the spring dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by [Clifford] Berryman of club president Harold M. Talburt, who is dropping the gav...
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Gridiron Club Fifty-Seventh Birthday Dinner Menu

Date: 02 28 1942
Description: Front cover and illustration from insert for the inauguration of club president Lewis Wood, with numbered illustrated phases of his career, and a banner re...
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Gridiron Club Dinner in Honor of Clifford K. Berryman Menu

Date: 12 12 1942
Description: Front and back sides of a two-sided menu for a dinner in honor of cartoonist and member Clifford K. Berryman, with a portrait of Berryman and a gridiron as...
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Cannon Company - 339th Infantry Thanksgiving Menu

Date: 11 23 1944
Description: Front cover and menu page of the Thanksgiving Day menu of the 339th Infantry, which served in Italy during World War II. On the front cover is an illustrat...
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Trumbo Testimony Note

Date: 
Description: One of the pages of notes Dalton Trumbo created in preparation for testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in October 1947.
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Third Hostel Trip, Our Big Moments

Date: 07 01 1940
Description: Page of the log book of bike hostel trips taken by participants in the Neighborhood House summer program for girls, with four images from the trip and hand...

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