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Fauerbach Palm Garden Refreshment Stand

Date: 09 17 1937
Description: Palm Garden refreshment stand with three men behind a bar, with tables and chairs, and decorative palm trees. The stand was set up at the East Side Busines...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club

Date: 12 20 1935
Description: Five men from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club. They are looking at photographs in Porter Butts' office at the Memorial Union.
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CUNA Credit Union Office

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Three female employees in the CUNA (Credit Union National Association) general office. 142 E. Gilman Street.
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Stacks of the Historical Library

Date: 1898
Description: Cluttered work space of the librarian responsible for the Historical Society's newspaper collection during the period when the Society occupied rooms in th...
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Girl Scout Jane McElvain

Date: 01 27 1944
Description: Thirteen year old Jane McElvain, the youngest member of the Mariner Senior Girl Scout program and an editorial writer for the Wisconsin State Journal Newsp...
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John Lewis Russell, Botanist

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of John L. Russell (1808-1873), Botanist. From 1831-1854, Russell served as a Unitarian minister in a number of cities. Served as...
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Daisy Bates

Date: 04 1963
Description: Daisy Bates seated at a desk in the NAACP office.
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Madison Advertising Club Women Plan Club Dinner and Program

Date: 01 14 1952
Description: For the first time in the history of the Madison Advertising Club, the women members are planning the dinner and program to be held at the Hoffman House. H...
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Madison Theater Guild's Costume Designer Loie

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: Pictured is the Madison Theater's Guild's costume designer who uses only the name Loie.
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North Vietnamese Press Conference

Date: 08 22 1967
Description: Press conference held at the International Press Club in Hanoi to announce the destruction and loss of life in the American bombing of Hue Street in a resi...
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Exchange Club Style Show

Date: 03 31 1954
Description: Group portrait of the Exchange Club style show models. They include, from left, Dolly Williamson, Mary Weston, and Nina Bonsack.
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Secretary of State Testifying at the Foreign Operations Subcommittee

Date: 03 14 1989
Description: Secretary of State James Baker testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Wisconsin Congressman David R....
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Jaycette Style Show Models

Date: 02 28 1956
Description: Barbara Lawson, representing the Truax Field Officers' Wives' Club, models fashion for the 'smart clubwomen.' The proceeds of the style shows were to maint...
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University Women's Tea

Date: 09 25 1957
Description: Mary McHugh; Marion Ludden; and Alice Wood, editor of the AAUW Bulletin, enjoy tea in the College Club library.
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Group Being Filmed

Date: 1966
Description: A group of African-American men and women, probably voter registration volunteers, stand in a line outdoors in front of a building at a primary election fo...
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Group with Film Camera

Date: 1966
Description: Several people, probably voter registration volunteers, stand outdoors in front of a building near tables and chairs at a primary election for the LCFO (Lo...
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Fourth of July at Park Falls

Date: 07 04 1994
Description: The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr...
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A Farmer Speaks

Date: 09 19 1985
Description: Bryce Luchterhand, a Unity, Wisconsin, farmer, with Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee at a committee hearing. O...
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Rex Magnus Club Entertainment

Date: 10 09 1887
Description: Posed group portrait outdoors of members of the Rex Magnus Club and representatives of the “Press of the United States” whom they are entertaining.

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