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We Saw You at YWCA Garden Tea

Date: 06 14 1960
Description: The home of Sybil Hanks at 525 Wisconsin Avenue was the setting for the Madison YWCA garden tea. The program centered around various nationalities. Left to...
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Stanislaw Mikolajczyk Polish Statesman

Date: 12 19 1951
Description: Polish statesman Stanislaw Mikolajcyzk, center, joins University of Wisconsin students studying Polish at the University of Wisconsin at a buffet supper. A...
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All Men Are Created Equal Map

Date: 06 29 1941
Description: A map showing the national roots of the people of Wisconsin, based on the ethnic stock research by University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Prof. George...
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UW Graduate Teaching Assistant Gets Post at Lycoming College

Date: 05 15 1959
Description: Sigmund Birkenmayer, a graduate teaching assistant in Slavic languages at the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed an assistant professor in Russian...
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Marquette School Pageant

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Nine students from Marquette School representing early Wisconsin settlers in Russian, Polish, and Czechoslovakian ethnic costumes performing in the school ...
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Prof. Jerzy Leon Nowinski

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: Portrait of Prof. Jerzy Leon Nowinski, a scientist and mathematician who was granted asylum in America in January 1958 from his native Poland. The origina...
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Lori Bessler

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Lori Bessler is a WHS Collections member and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau.

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