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IOOF Hall; Granite Falls

Date: 1910
Description: View across street towards a public hall on a street corner.
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Map of West Part of City of Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1907
Description: Shows public buildings, hotels, fraternity houses, and private houses. Index of fraternities and sororities, residences, public buildings, hotels, places o...
Photograph

David Duke Recruiting

Date: 1975
Description: Informal quarter-length portrait of David Duke. Caption on the reverse reads: "Grand Dragon of a Ku Klux Klan in Baton Rouge." He was in South Boston tryin...
Photograph

Zor Shrine Spring Ceremonial

Date: 05 17 1958
Description: Four Zor Shrine Temple officials await the start of the public exhibition of uniformed units during the Shrine ceremonial in Madison. Left to right are: Fr...
Photograph

David Duke Recruiting for KKK

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "David Duke, Grand Dragon of the Baton Rouge Ku Klux Klan, trying to recruit South Boston residents. Teenagers idolized him, ...
Photograph

Order of DeMolay and Order of Rainbow Dance

Date: 01 11 1960
Description: A public semi-formal dance, "Winter Nocturne", will be sponsored by the Order of Rainbow for Girls and the Order of DeMolay for Boys in the Crystal Ballroo...
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Christmas Cheer for Children

Date: 12 14 1957
Description: Kappa Delta sorority members look on while some children are talking to Santa Claus. The children are "shut-ins" at Morningside sanatorium. Morningside san...
Photograph

Fraternal Reserve Association Building

Date: 1920
Description: Advertisement reads: "Castle-Pierce Printing Company" and "May 1915". Text on right reads: "F. R. A. Building" and "Library". The image includes a view of ...
Photograph

Lions Club Constitution Day Luncheon

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Speaker at podium giving a talk at the Lions Club Constitution Day luncheon in front of WISC microphones.
Photograph

Dane County Republican Party Rally

Date: 08 24 1950
Description: Walter J. Kohler addresses the attendees of a Dane County Republican Party rally at the Eagle's Club in Madison.
Photograph

Madison View from Lake Monona

Date: 
Description: View across water towards the shoreline of the eastern isthmus of Madison, including the MG&E power plant smokestacks. A group of people appear to be fishi...
Postcard

Masonic Temple, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.

Date: 1928
Description: Color postcard showing a two-story brick building with a sign indicating it is a Masonic temple. A streetlight is in front of the building. At the bottom o...
Photograph

Declaration of Optimist Week

Date: 11 02 1949
Description: Madison City Manager Howell (right) signs a proclamation declaring the following week to be Optimist Week. Looking on, from the Madison Optimist Chapter, (...
Photograph

Speaker at Elks Lodge

Date: 1940
Description: A stocky man in a white suit stands at a lectern and microphone in front of the Elks Lodge (Al. Ringling home). Other men and women sit on the platform. A ...
Photograph

Madison Junior Woman's Club Christmas Party

Date: 12 08 1964
Description: The Zeta Phi Eta storytellers, Mrs. Mary Kamarck and Mrs. Shirley Stathas, assisted by two University of Wisconsin students, Jeffrey Kravat and Russell Hos...
Photograph

Men Parading with Axes

Date: 
Description: Men parading down street with axes over their shoulders. Probably the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal insurance body in the 1890s which was strong i...
Photograph

Lions Club Constitution Day Dinner

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: Head table guests shown include Attorney General Thomas E. Fairchild; the Reverend Robert G. Borgwardt, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church; Governor Ren...
Photograph

Speaker and Crowd

Date: 1940
Description: View from across street of a crowd sitting on the porch, lawn and street in front of the Elks Lodge (Al. Ringling house) listening to a speaker standing at...
Print

Bow Tie Club Membership Card

Date: 1924
Description: Membership card of the Bow Tie Club of Madison, Wisconsin. The card features a drawing of a bow tie with a jewel in the center of the knot and the words "T...
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Dairy Day at Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity

Date: 12 02 1958
Description: Marvin Woerpel (left) of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is the main speaker for Alpha Gamma Rho's Dairy Day banquet. Shown with him, left to righ...

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