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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Three workers with barrels of drinks inside a refreshment booth decorated with stars and stripes. The men were preparing to serve drinks at an Internationa... |
| Date: | 03 30 1934 |
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| Description: | Fifteen YWCA Girl Reserves sitting around a table coloring Easter eggs and putting them in small baskets to be distributed to crippled children at the Wisc... |
| Date: | 01 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Beatrice Gulley's (Mrs. Carson Gulley) birthday party. Group portrait of family and friends posing around a small table with birthday cake and flowers. |
| Date: | 03 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Janet Oldenburg decorating Easter eggs as her sister Nancy is watching. An infant is sitting in a high chair on the right. They are the children of Mr. and... |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | The ornate entrance to the Schlitz Palm Garden. Located on N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue, the Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and ... |
| Date: | 07 03 1896 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of waiters and customers in the Schlitz Palm Garden. The idea of the garden was borrowed from Germany where beer gardens were common. It open... |
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| Description: | Interior of the Old Absinthe House Bar, erected in 1806 by Pedro Front and Francisco Juncadelia. The bar features decorative marble fountains and a clock ... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Shrine for police officers in Cuba one year after the Cuban Revolution. The shrine is a blue plaster enclosure with a white-framed glass door. Inside is a... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Storefronts line the main streets in Brewery Gulch. Paramount Pictures Theater can be seen in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the G. Heileman Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin, with a musketeer-like figure holding a bottle of beer in one hand and raising a glas... |
| Date: | 10 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Marie Pease, the wife of the Truax Field base commander, greets three of the wives of newly-arrived officers at a party given by the Officers Wives' C... |
| Date: | 10 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A decorated pumpkin serves as a table centerpiece. It is decorated with a face, a hat made of fresh flowers, and attached leaves for hair. |
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| Description: | Dual exterior and interior views of office entrance and office buffet. |
| Date: | 09 13 1911 |
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| Description: | Middle front outer panel and tri-fold menu from The Gargoyle, with a gargoyle sitting atop the framed illustration of the entryway of the restaurant and a ... |
| Date: | 02 25 1926 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing from the booklet printed for the Forty-ninth Annual Dinner of the American Paper and Pulp Association at the Waldorf Astoria H... |
| Date: | 07 08 1936 |
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| Description: | Farewell dinner menu in the form of a house decorated with folk art painting and trim, and a man and a woman in traditional dress perched at the two open w... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Souvenir playing card out of a full deck from the Pan-American Exposition. The Two of Spades displays a drawing of the "Dairy building," a large ornate bar... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A group of smiling children posing with three adults. They are standing behind a table covered with baked goods, and Christmas decorations are on the wall ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | View uphill towards a woman sitting among a flock of pink flamingo lawn ornaments covering Bascom Hill. She is pretending to feed bread to two pink flaming... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a man sitting behind a desk in a richly decorated office. He is holding a pipe and a Froedtert Service market report. Kurtis Froedtert was head of ... |
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