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Antique Christmas Cards

Date: 11 04 1931
Description: Four antique Christmas cards. At the top left is a copper engraved robin card, 1840. Top right is a harp and rose greeting card hand-painted in 1800. Lower...
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WIBA Fern Room

Date: 12 05 1930
Description: WIBA fern room with piano, organ, ferns, and a turntable. There is a Teddy Bear on top of the organ on the right, and on the left is a bird in a birdcage.
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Model of Eagle's Club Stone Eagle

Date: 10 08 1927
Description: Model of Eagle's Club stone eagle. Bay View Stone Company.
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Reiterman Prizewinning Songbirds

Date: 12 12 1947
Description: Mrs. Emil (Irene) Reiterman, 723 South Shore Drive, pictured with two prizewinning teams of roller canaries which she and her husband, Emil Reiterman, have...
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Eagle Regiment Car

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Description: Dr. James A Jackson, Sr., who was a hospital steward for the 8th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War, riding in an open car during a GAR parade in Madi...
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Hunters with Rabbits

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Otto Radke, Andrew Echstein, and Jake Lange posed in front of a painted backdrop. They have their guns leaning in front of t...
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Audubon Bird Walk

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: Mary Walker, vice-president of the Audubon Society; Gratia Stavrum, Alan Keitt, and Thomas J Stavrum, president of the Audubon Society, enjoying a bird wal...
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Fuller's Woods Map

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Description: A decorative map of Fuller's Woods development along the Lake Mendota shoreline. Includes numbered lots and building line setbacks with decorative features...
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Ben Bergor Letterhead

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Description: Ben Bergor letterhead, promoting Bergor as a theatrical agent and entertainment consultant, with a cartoon of a bird wearing a top hat and a bow tie, and c...
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As Autumn Comes

Date: 10 2013
Description: Canadian geese floating near the shore on a lake. In the distance a fisherman is standing on a small boat reeling in his line.
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Sid and Geese over Lake Mendota

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Description: Painting of Sid, wearing a hat, waders, and a coat, gazing up at a group of geese flying over Lake Mendota. A fishing rod is lying on the ice near a fishin...
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After the Hunt

Date: 1935
Description: Oswald Neesvig is posing in a snowy landscape with dozens of dead crows attached to his clothing and at his feet. Neesvig was the founder and president of ...
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Two Baby Penguins

Date: 12 26 1958
Description: Onlookers look at two new baby penguins in the display window at the Wolff, Kubly, and Hirsig store on Madison's Capitol square. They will later by taken t...

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