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VVAW in Philadelphia

Date: 1976
Description: Demonstration by members of the Philadelphia chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, one year after the war ended.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Speaks for SCEF

Date: 05 26 1959
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a fund-raising event for SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, held at the Hotel Delmonico. She praised SCEF particul...
Poster

Madison Alliance for Homosexual Equality

Date: 1970
Description: Poster promoting a meeting of M.A.H.E. (Madison Alliance for Homosexual Equality) to be held every Wednesday evening at 9:00pm at the St. Francis House.
Poster

Gay Dance

Date: 1971
Description: Poster promoting a gay dance to be held at 10 Langdon Street. A .75 donation is suggested for the National Gay Convention, on Thankgsgiving in Madison. The...
Manuscript

Gay is Good

Date: 1972
Description: Cover of document manifesto of the Gay Liberation Front entitled "Gay is Good". Includes male and female gender symbols.
Poster

Gay Dance

Date: 1972
Description: Poster promoting a gay dance to be held at the Memorial Union's Old Madison Room. Donation fee of .50 requested. Additional graffitti reads "No Union Scabs...
Poster

Those Gay Boys are Takin' Over

Date: 1971
Description: Poster produced by the Madison Gay Liberation Front promoting their weekly meeting at the St. Francis House, located at 1001 University Avenue. A young man...
Poster

Urgent Lesbian Meeting

Date: 1973
Description: Poster proclaiming the need for an urgent lesbian meeting. Poster depicts Athena with shield. Agenda for meeting includes a speakers bureau, counseling gro...
Poster

Come Out Together

Date: 1971
Description: Poster for dance, to be held at 10 Langdon Street, sponsored by the Gay Liberation Front. Includes the symbols of Mars, the symbol for a male organism or m...
Poster

Cabaret Entertainment

Date: 1979
Description: Poster for cabaret entertainment at L'etoile Jazz Club, 25 N. Pinckney Street, featuring Lisa Davis et Bil Meredith and Lynette, on June 10, 1979.
Photograph

Jane Addams

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Jane Addams, a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as well as the American Ci...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs

Date: 06 28 1949
Description: Police Chief Bruce Weatherly meeting with members of the National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs who were touring government offices while in Madis...
Photograph

National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs

Date: 06 28 1949
Description: Advisory board members of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs being entertained by the antics of a circus elephant in the Capitol park duri...
Photograph

National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs

Date: 06 27 1949
Description: Members of the advisory board of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs attending a meeting at the Hotel Loraine. Pictured from left to right ...
Photograph

Madison Youth Council Officers

Date: 06 29 1949
Description: Madison Youth Council officers taking the oath of office from City Manager Leonard G. Howell. New officers, front row, left to right: Sherwyn Woods, pres...
Photograph

State Medical Society Headquarters

Date: 08 03 1949
Description: Front view of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin office building, located at 704 East Gorham Street. The building, known as the William Collins House,...
Photograph

Nakoma Women's Golf-Guest Day Chairman

Date: 08 03 1949
Description: Mrs. Ralph E. (Mariel) Campbell of 133 Manitou Way, chair of the women's organization of the Nakoma Golf club, standing on the course with a bag of golf cl...
Photograph

Nakoma Women's Golf-Guest Day

Date: 08 03 1949
Description: Standing and sitting around a table on the porch of the Nakoma Golf Club are club members (left to right): Mrs. Lester C. (Eleanor) Lee, 4229 Wanda Place, ...
Photograph

Portraits on Medallions

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Description: Portraits appearing on medallions commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. From left to right on top are ...

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