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| Date: | 11 03 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) Band in Great Hall of the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Halloween decoration in the back... |
| Date: | 12 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Interior of Manchester's Department store on the main floor during the Christmas season. The store was located at 2 East Mifflin Street. |
| 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: | 11 27 1930 |
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| Description: | First floor (from Mifflin Street entrance) of Manchester's Department Store, showing Christmas decorations. |
| Date: | 11 27 1930 |
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| Description: | First floor of Manchester's Department Store, showing Christmas decorations. |
| Date: | 11 27 1930 |
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| Description: | First floor of Manchester's Department Store showing Christmas decorations. An entrance is along the back wall. |
| Date: | 10 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Halloween decorations in the lobby of the Orpheum Theater. |
| Date: | 10 28 1930 |
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| Description: | Side view of Halloween decorations in the Orpheum theater lobby. |
| Date: | 10 18 1930 |
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| Description: | Chi Phi House, 200 Langdon Street, with the facade decorated as a theater with a marquee for homecoming. "See the Badgers in 'Smashing Pennsylvania.'" 1st ... |
| Date: | 12 22 1956 |
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| Description: | Home of Norman and Ruth Bass, 4216 Mandrake Road, winner of the Christmas outdoor home lighting contest. |
| Date: | 11 21 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Fred Chamberlin, 3475 West Belt Line, demonstrating the preparation and use of a Christmas Advent wreath at the Catholic Information Center, 435 State... |
| Date: | 12 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Paul Meyer and children Freddy, Maria, and Elena, 2141 Keyes Avenue, filling a pinata for Maria's fouth birthday party and also Christmas. |
| Date: | 12 17 1955 |
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| Description: | A woman and two men at the refreshment table at the Blackhawk Country Club Christmas party. |
| Date: | 11 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Margaret Horstmeier, nurse's aide at Methodist Hospital, shows a Christmas tree ornament to infant John Monegar. |
| Date: | 01 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Nakoma Welfare League's traditional Twelfth Night Party at Nakoma School. Admiring the snowman table decoration are Mr. & Mrs. William F. (Marguerite) Grim... |
| 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: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Junior Red Cross members making Christmas tree decorations for military service units and hospitals overseas. Arline Whitefoot, on the right, assists a you... |
| Date: | 12 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Unidentified woman seated in a chair next to a decorated Christmas tree with presents underneath. On a table next to the woman are photographs of a soldier... |
| Date: | 12 16 1947 |
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| Description: | June (Mrs. Robert O.) McLean, and her children Roderick and Gwen, putting the finishing touches on a Gingerbread House. |
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