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Bernhard Mautz's 50th Birthday

Date: 03 25 1949
Description: Mautz Paint and Varnish Company salesman, Alfie Ladd (right) presents a bronze plaque inscribed with signatures of the firm's sales force to company presid...
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Park Hotel Employees Party

Date: 01 04 1950
Description: Alfred Ellickson and Alfred Randall playing violin and guitar, while Adolph, standing at right, is holding a lighter up to a large cigar held in the guitar...
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Mendota Yacht Club Beachcombers Party

Date: 07 28 1953
Description: William and Audrey Hobbins cooking a hot dog on the grill at the Mendota Yacht Club beachcombers party.
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Stag Party

Date: 1913
Description: Forest Middleton, far right, poses with a group of men in high spirits. One man, second from left, holds a jug. The room is furnished with a makeshift tabl...
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Shorewood Hills 30th Anniversary Costume Luncheon

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: "Blase beyond words were these three Shorewood women who came to the party in the abbreviated, waist-less, low-necked frocks characteristic of the 1920s." ...
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Findorff Company Party

Date: 02 07 1959
Description: Employees of J.H. Findorff and Son were entertained at a dinner party at the Club Chanticleer. Hosts were Carol and John R. Findorff, left, and Leona and M...
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Findorff Company Party

Date: 02 07 1959
Description: Employees of J.H. Findorff and Son were entertained at a dinner party at the Club Chanticleer. Enjoying the company party were John Matthews, Ollie Norset...
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Findorff Company Party

Date: 02 07 1959
Description: Employees of J.H. Findorff and Son were entertained at a dinner party at the Club Chanticleer. From left to right are Joseph Kalscheur, Eugene M. Morrissey...
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Findorff Company Party

Date: 02 07 1959
Description: Employees of J.H. Findorff and Son were entertained at a dinner party at the Club Chanticleer. Among the guests were Paul Falkenstein, Cross Plains; Mildre...
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Sid and Unidentified Man at Gathering

Date: 07 1962
Description: Portrait of Sid standing with another man at a gathering. Both men are wearing suits and have cigars in their mouths. Two women are in the background on th...
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Birthday Party

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Description: Group portrait of men and women sitting at a table in the corner of a room, perhaps a restaurant, at a birthday party. There is a cake with candles in the ...
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Mifflin Street Block Party

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Description: Two men enjoying the festivities in a front yard at the Mifflin Street Block Party. A crowd is standing along the sidewalk in the background.
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Sid at Bridal Dinner

Date: 1963
Description: Sid caught underneath a table during a bridal dinner. Sid is looking out from under a tablecloth draped over his neck after trays of dishes crashed to the ...
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Lampshade Partier

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Description: A partier at the "Hugh Retirement" party sitting in a chair with a lampshade on his head. He is sticking out his tongue and is holding a cigarette in his h...
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Certificate Share in Gisholt Ice Chippers

Date: 1956
Description: Certificate for Gisholt Ice Chippers, with a cartoon of group of fishermen, milling about turned over wine bottles and cheering as an oil rig gushes fish o...
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Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

Date: 1955
Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in red ink on white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. The cover graphic is a cartoon of a warmly dressed man expir...
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"Peace which, like silence, is everywhere until it is broken"

Date: 1963
Description: Sid is crouching beneath a table. He has a cigar in his mouth, and is sticking his head out from under the tablecloth and smiling. On the floor is a chaoti...
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New Truax Field Officers Club

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Guests at the Truax Field Officers Club formal "debt party" and dance celebrating the opening of the new clubhouse. Darlene Simmons is shown providing a "l...

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