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High School Couples at Sorority Dance

Date: 02 12 1944
Description: Two high school couples at a Beta Gamma Chi and Mu Delta Chi sorority dance at the Loraine Hotel. Left to right: Georgianna Browne, Emerson Black, Dan Benk...
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Helen Hall, Youth Hostel Secretary

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: Helen Hall, secretary at the Youth Hostel headquarters on the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road, near Shorewood Hills.
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The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark, looking at a cartoon while sitting on a cot in the boys' hostel at the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road.
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Three officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Paul Hohf, Mrs. Byron Caldwell, ...
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Five officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Thomas Holstein, acting president...
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Sleeping Clerk at Loraine Hotel

Date: 01 19 1945
Description: A man, possibly Ray Gryphan, clerk at Loraine Hotel, seen sleeping in restaurant booth.
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Myra Cary

Date: 11 26 1947
Description: Portrait of Myra (Mrs. C.F.) Cary seated in a chair holding a book in her suite at the Park Hotel on her 86th birthday. She and her husband led the way in ...
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Edgewater Hotel Garden Entrance

Date: 04 26 1948
Description: Interior view of flower garden entrance to the new Edgewater hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue, America's newest hotel.
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Edgewater Hotel Lobby

Date: 03 26 1948
Description: Edgewater Hotel lake shore lobby decorated by Lowell Frautschi of Frautschi's Inc., 219 King Street, where warm colors and bold lines create an air of eleg...
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Edgewater Hotel Opening

Date: 04 26 1948
Description: Emerald-walled living room in a guest suite in the new Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. The hotel has sixty-six suites made up of 150 rooms; each roo...
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Edgewater Hotel Bedroom

Date: 04 26 1948
Description: A bedroom in one of the guest suites in the new Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. Striking wallpaper in shades of brown and soft green is complimented...
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Governor's Suite in Edgewater Hotel

Date: 04 26 1948
Description: View of the bedroom of the Governor's Suite in the new Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. The room is decorated in restful browns and beiges, accented ...
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Women of the Royal Neighbors of America

Date: 09 15 1948
Description: Women who attended the deputy school conducted by the Royal Neighbors of America at the Hotel Loraine. Officers seated in the front row are, left to right,...
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Edgewater Hotel Apartment

Date: 05 02 1949
Description: T.L. Graham reading in front of the floor to ceiling bookcases in the living room of his Edgewater Hotel apartment in Madison. The Edgewater Hotel is locat...
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Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington

Date: 06 24 1949
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Joseph R. Farrington, Washington D.C., president of the National Federaton of Women's Republican Clubs, in her suite at the Hotel Loraine.
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Red Cross Annual Dinner

Date: 11 18 1949
Description: Shown are the honored guests at the Red Cross Annual Dinner in the Hotel Loraine. They are (left to right) City Manager Howell, Mrs. Lohra S. Davies, exec...
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Statewide Zor Shrine Ceremonial

Date: 11 21 1949
Description: Imperial Potentate Harold Lloyd (right) talks with two fellow Shriners and a Wisconsin State Journal reporter during a press conference at the Lorai...
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Daughters of Norway Banquet

Date: 02 23 1950
Description: Charter members of the Fremsyn Lodge No. 53 of the Daughters of Norway pose for a group portrait at the Edgewater Hotel during the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary...
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Rotary Club Spelling Bee

Date: 05 03 1950
Description: Six grade school pupils defeated six Rotary adults 37 to 31 at the Rotary Club Spelling Bee at the Hotel Loraine. The spellers, Rotarians, and school child...
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Sorority Marionette Show and Tea Party

Date: 06 26 1950
Description: Professor Henry L. Ewbank of the University of Wisconsin speech department admires the marionette "Casper Cadaver" being manipulated by Ethel Miller at the...

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