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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 42

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Description: That morning is adrift in passing;
it cannot last the day.
Those years are anchored to each other;
there is no other way.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 144

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Description: A house laced straight into the wiry sore of righteousness,
squared off and lonely,
tingling at the sound of ice,
the libertine who drowned.
Photograph

Tree in Field

Date: 05 23 1961
Description: Backlighted trees and field, Katzenbeuchel Road.
Photograph

Field Along Katzenbeuchel Road

Date: 05 23 1961
Description: Field and hills along Katzenbeuchel Road. There is a fence in the foreground.
Photograph

Small Domed Hill

Date: 05 24 1961
Description: View of small domed hill on Highway 19, surrounded by fields.
Photograph

Small Stream Through Willows

Date: 10 20 1963
Description: Small stream through willow tree. In the background are tree-covered hills.
Photograph

Tree in the Valley

Date: 06 25 1964
Description: Single tree in the valley meadow below Stewart park. A small loop of a stream is to the right of the tree. A wooded hill is in the background.
Photograph

Washout Through Cornfield

Date: 07 03 1960
Description: Big washout through cornfield after heavy rain. In the background is a field with crops leading up to a low hill crowned with trees.
Photograph

Field and Barn

Date: 05 24 1961
Description: View across plowed field towards barn and farm buildings along CTH KP in the early morning. In the background are rolling hills and a ridge covered with tr...
Photograph

Spring Birch Forest

Date: 05 23 1961
Description: Spring birch forest from Katzenbeuchel Road.
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 45

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Description: The house was smaller than its legendary fill of righteousness
The author knelt before the scratched and wintered argument
to learn that Grace, in an...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

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Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 67

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Description: On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overhead
to tell us who we are and what the odds.
Don't count;
a promise is no more than just a s...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72

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Description: Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,
the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.
Embrace the wall and face away from trouble
in the winter ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

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Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

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Description: The parson came. He said it well:
Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on,
not the sky.
A little harvest of the sorrows
between the sentenc...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 134

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Description: We always know what day it is
Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee
that stepson drives along the road
and all the dog...
Historical Object

Twelve-Panel Vanderbilt List

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Description: Outside of twelve-panel folding "scroll." A master list of 24-8.5 x 11 sheets of handwritten or typed paper, detailing physical or thematic ways to categor...
Historical Object

Twelve-Panel Vanderbilt List

Date: 
Description: Inside of twelve-panel folding "scroll." A master list of 24-8.5 x 11 sheets of handwritten or typed paper, detailing physical or thematic ways to categori...
Photograph

Construction on State Historical Society of Wisconsin Headquarters Building

Date: 1967
Description: View from Langdon Street of steelworkers constructing the framework for the addition to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Headquarters building. Pa...

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