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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker. |
| 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: | Two little girls kneel before an altar that is holding statues and a creche. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl draws a design on a blouse worn by a mannequin while a woman observes her progress. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the classroom space in the First Unitarian Society Meeting House during construction. Window openings and the roof construction are shown.... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Roof trusses in auditorium of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House during construction. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | 100-year-old woman, a resident of Muscoda, Wis., sitting at a table, stirring a cup of coffee (?). Newsphoto for the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two women compete in a curling match. Several spectators are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the prefabricated home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed by Marshall Erdman. This example of the Erdman #2 known as the Walte... |
| Date: | 11 1951 |
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| Description: | State Historical Society employee Joyce Hancock examines a replica of Cyrus McCormick's first reaper. |
| Date: | 11 1951 |
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| Description: | State Historical Society employee Joyce Hancock with a model of Cyrus McCormick's first reaper. |
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