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Steelworkers Costume Party Winners

Date: 11 08 1947
Description: Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation).
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Pi Lambda Phi Party Group

Date: 01 05 1946
Description: Group portrait of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity party group at the Park Hotel.
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Masonic Commonwealth Lodge No. 325

Date: 06 24 1947
Description: Masonic Commonwealth Lodge No. 325 twenty-fifth anniversary dinner showing masons and their wives sitting at tables, and floral decorations on the speakers...
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Allis Promanaders Square Dancing

Date: 12 09 1952
Description: The "Allis Promanaders," a square dancing group that meets in the gym of Frank Allis school, hold a public square dancing party for the benefit of the Empt...
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Square Dancers at Nakoma Twelfth Night Party

Date: 01 05 1955
Description: Harold & Marion Brandenburg and Erwin and Evelyn Gaumnitz participate in square dancing at the Nakoma Welfare League's Twelfth Night Party. The program ho...
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Taggetts at the Beaux Arts Ball

Date: 02 08 1955
Description: John and Mae Taggett dressed as a British court jester and an elegantly dressed "lady of the court" at the Madison Art Association Beaux Arts Ball.
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Richard Halbach and Florence Bahr

Date: 01 01 1945
Description: Richard Halbach and Florence Bahr, sitting in a car, are the King and Queen of the 26th annual Little International Livestock and Horse Show, held in the S...
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Interfraternity Ball Royalty

Date: 03 28 1947
Description: Group portrait of attendees at the 1947 Interfraternity Ball at the University of Wisconsin. Pictured standing left to right: Earl Numrick, Milwaukee; Howa...
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Couple Shopping at Grocery Store Dairy Case

Date: 10 03 1947
Description: Elevated view of man and woman with a grocery cart shopping at the dairy case in a grocery store. Sign over case reads: "There's a Heap of Good Livin' Down...
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University League Junior Division

Date: 11 24 1947
Description: Three couples in charge of arrangements for the Junior Division dance of the University League at the Woman's Building are: Jack A. and Ida J. Borchardt; H...
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University League Junior Division

Date: 11 24 1947
Description: Ann F. Warren, cutting in on Kathleen and Calvin Royston during the balloon tag dance at the Woman's Club Building, 240 West Gilman Street.
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Young Adult Club Christmas Dance

Date: 12 17 1947
Description: Agnes Dooley, John Fahning, Joe Ann Higgins, Ben Prochaska, Mildred Leach, and Tom Maloney in formal dress standing next to a reindeer and Santa Claus deco...
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Madison Board of Realtors Christmas Baskets

Date: 12 23 1947
Description: Members of the Madison Board of Realtors with three baskets of Christmas gifts for the Empty Stocking Club. Pictured left to right: Arnold Wake, chairman; ...
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Junior Chamber of Commerce Members

Date: 12 27 1947
Description: From the left: Mrs. Harry P. (Mary) Stoll, Harry P. Stoll, Robert Wegner, Mrs. Robert Wegner (seated), and Tom McKay at the Hotel Loraine attending the Jun...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Intercollegiate Regatta

Date: 07 17 1948
Description: Pictured are a group at the Yacht Club dance, one of the festivities of the University of Wisconsin's first intercollegiate sailing regatta. Left to right:...
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University League Dance Committee

Date: 11 06 1948
Description: The Junior Division of the University League, spouses of University of Wisconsin faculty, committee for arrangements for a dance at the Maple Bluff County ...
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Who's New Club - Barn Dance

Date: 11 19 1948
Description: Members of the Who's New Club at a barn dance in the gymnasium of the YWCA. Three "country maidens" at left are: Mrs. M.E. Rudd, 4393 Monona Drive; Mrs. Fr...
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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. Square dance caller, Frederic E Risser, and his wife Elizabeth wearing a bonne...
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Pre-Christmas Sorority Formal Party

Date: 12 11 1948
Description: Betty Oxnem, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Oxnem of 10 Vista Road, shown with a group of friends she entertained at an "open house" prior to the Theta Ph...
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Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy"

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Church, the Highlands, in costume, posing as actors in a scene from "Taming of the Shrew"; part of a comedy program, "A Combine of ...

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