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| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | This oil painting is a fine weave cotton support (perhaps a bed sheet). It is signed and dated (1906) and depicts an early twentieth century rural southwes... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center. The first, a double lock around which the village of C... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R... |
| Date: | 1993 |
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| Description: | Robert Brady Lawrence Murphy was born on December 5, 1901 at 711 Langdon Street in Madison, Wisconsin. He received a B.A. (1929) and an M.A. (1930) in hist... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | These girl's gloves are made of off-white kid leather. They are completely hand-stitched in beige thread, top stitched around the fingers and thumb, with t... |
| Date: | 06 1921 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio graduation portrait of Genevieve Milward (later McVicar), (1902-1987) of Madison, Wisconsin, standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sh... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Prior to the 1948 State Fair, artist Robert Hodgell traveled Wisconsin to study its many landscapes. He then produced a series of study sketches outlining ... |
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| Description: | This earthenware bowl, which was designed by Susan Frackelton and thrown by George Ohr, is squat and bulbous. It is red with mottled green glaze on the ext... |
| Date: | 1811 |
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| Description: | A pair of off-white, kid leather women's shoes with shirred ribbon decoration on the top. They were most likely worn by Sylvia (Putnam) Hamilton (donor Gra... |
| Date: | 08 01 1967 |
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| Description: | Donald Soehnlein took this photograph while on vacation in the Bitterroot Mountains, near Lola, Montana. It depicts his wife Nina and son James cleaning up... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | The reverse side of a promotional cardboard and wood fan featuring an image of the Dionne quintuplets. This back side of the fan is printed with an adverti... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A handheld fan made of wood and cloth. This fan depicts the event it was made to commemorate — the 1878 Exposition Universelle held in Paris, France. The f... |
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| Description: | A brass solar compass, invented by William Austin Burt and built by William J. Young. It was used to survey lands in Wisconsin and surrounding areas during... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A painted portrait of Walter Jodok Kohler completed after his death. |
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| Description: | Dairyland rat poison container, made for the Wisconsin Pharmacal Company in Milwaukee. It was a warfarin-based poison. |
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| Description: | A seance robe worn by Louise Parke during her work as a Spiritualist in Wisconsin. |
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