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Magnus Swenson (1855-1936)

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buil...
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Ruby Kubota

Date: 05 17 1944
Description: Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan ...
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Reverend Antonio Parroni

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Portrait of Reverend Antonio Parroni standing at the altar of the Chiesa Italiana Methodist Church at 103 South Lake Street where he was minister from 1929...
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Golden Wedding Anniversary

Date: 03 10 1954
Description: Portrait of Rognald and Anna Larson noting their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple married in the Vinje church in Voss, Norway in 1904 and came to Madis...
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Passport to Happiness

Date: 10 20 1954
Description: Portrait of Fricis Brakmanis, age 41, and his bride-to-be Maija Smeils, 40, holding their wedding license. Both had spent time in Latvian forced-labor camp...
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Stan Lesar

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Stan Lesar, laboratory manager at the American Scientific Laboratories and an immigrant from Yugoslavia, looks forward to voting for the first time in the ...
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Madison West Relays

Date: 04 09 1961
Description: Greg Gard, a Granville track star, won the mile run at the Madison West high school relays.
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Ski Jumpers

Date: 01 02 1955
Description: Ingvar Arneson, Sr. (left) and his 19-year-old son, Ingvar Jr., both of Wisconsin Rapids, were among the jumpers taking part in the Blackhawk Ski Club jump...
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UW Graduate Teaching Assistant Gets Post at Lycoming College

Date: 05 15 1959
Description: Sigmund Birkenmayer, a graduate teaching assistant in Slavic languages at the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed an assistant professor in Russian...
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George Gillette

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait. Caption reads: "George Gillette. Born in London, England in 1811, died Swaledale, Iowa in December 1908. Farmed at Springfield Corners, Wisconsin...
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Mary Mathews Adams

Date: 1896
Description: Vignetted waist-up portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works incl...
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Reverend Ole Amble

Date: 1872
Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Reverend Ole Amble, a Norwegian immigrant and Lutheran pastor, taken around the time he was a seminarian at Augsburg S...

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