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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Rabbi Max Lipschitz, and a group of Bar Mitzvah students wearing prayer shawls and yarmulkes, (Jewish skullcaps) gather around the torah on the altar to re... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A jigsaw in the hands of Harry Westphal makes smooth curves on the end of a piece of wood. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Holding a dropper over racks of test tubes, a man in a lab coat aims to place drops in the receptacles. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two men operate a machine that uses wires to make equal portions out of a large slab of butter. |
| Date: | 08 19 1951 |
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| Description: | The First Unitarian Society Meeting House sanctuary (or auditorium) during the final stages of construction. Here, members of the congregation who helped d... |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., presents a stack of papers to Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman. Although unidentified, the papers are likely nomination... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Spiritualists in Wonewoc, Wisconsin, are setting controls for medium Earl H. Williams by tying his arms and taping his mouth prior to a "levitation exhibit... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two women compete in a curling match. Several spectators are visible in the background. |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin Idea Theater Group in costume, one man posing dressed as a fisherman, a woman as a bathing beauty, and another person as a giant f... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | John Wilde, Associate Professor in the School of Education's Department of Art Education, instructing a student in perspective sketching during a class mee... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elderly man sitting in a rocking chair and knitting. |
| Date: | 03 1953 |
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| Description: | William Scott, former torch boy, holding one of the kerosene torches used in fire fighting in the 1880's. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man pointing to a wall clock on the exterior of a model building completely papered with postage stamps. |
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| Description: | Aaron Bohrod posing with wallpaper he designed using State Historical Society of Wisconsin Museum objects as subject matter. |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Four men playing cards at a table with a fifth man seated on a radiator observing at left. In the foreground, a dog clears an empty beer bottle from the ta... |
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