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Field and Woodland

Date: 06 28 1964
Description: View across a field sloping down toward a woodland area, with fields and hills in the distance. Caption reads: "Primrose (vicinity), Wis. June 28, 1960. Bi...
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Woodlands and Fields at Sundown

Date: 09 11 1960
Description: Slightly elevated view across fields and small patches of woodlands. A barn is on a hill in the distance, and there are cows in a field below on the right....
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Rocks and Early Spring Trees

Date: 05 13 1961
Description: View of several trees growing behind a rocky outcropping. In the background on the left is a farmhouse and farm buildings, and a tower for what may be a wi...
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Tree in Field

Date: 08 09 1964
Description: View of a tree in a field. A large and a small building are in the background on the right. Caption reads: "Pine Bluff (vicinity), Mineral Point Rd.), Wis....
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Wild Growth

Date: 05 12 1961
Description: View of a tangle of trees and other plants along with several rocks. Caption reads: "Ashton (vicinity), Wis. May 12, 1961. Dense wild growth and rocks in h...
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Willow Tree in Upland Pasture, Spring Growth

Date: 05 07 1960
Description: View of a tree surrounded by rocks and field. The trees branches have some leaves and buds on them. Caption reads: "Cross Plains (vicinity), Wis. May 17, 1...
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Mazomanie, Vicinity Highway 78

Date: 07 23 1960
Description: View from a bluff looking south. A highway is on the right; one farm building is among a stand of trees at the bottom of the hill.
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Mrs. Ruth Pochmann's Doll Exhibit

Date: 1961
Description: Five dolls are posed together. Two are wearing veils and a third is wearing a hat. Photo caption reads: "19th Century dolls owned by Mrs Henry A. [Ruth] Po...
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Mrs. Ruth Pochmann's Doll Exhibit

Date: 1961
Description: Five dolls are posed together. The smallest — an African-American doll — is seated in a miniature chair. The caption reads: "19th Century dolls owned by Mr...
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Television Station Tower Near Madison

Date: 07 30 1960
Description: View across a field, with a small hill in the distance. One tree is on the hill, and a building is nearby. Behind them, a tower extends into the sky. Capti...
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Outcropping Near Mount Horeb

Date: 1963
Description: View uphill towards a rocky outcropping on a hilltop near Mount Horeb, with storm clouds gathering in the sky. Fence posts are partway up the hill, and a f...
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Guffawmeter

Date: 1958
Description: A man wearing headphones is sitting behind a table with the Guffawmeter. The caption reads: "Guffawmeter constructed by Paul Vanderbilt for the State Histo...
Historical Object

Twelve-Panel Vanderbilt List

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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...
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

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

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...
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

Date: 
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 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 ...
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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...
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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

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