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Ice Cream at the Corner Grocery

Date: 05 07 1964
Description: The corner grocery is a pleasant place for the pause that refreshes. Thaddeus Moore, 9, of 3271 N. 14th Street, had a cone. Anthony McMillon, 7, of 3287-A ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt

Date: 02 09 1959
Description: This photograph won the top award for 1959 Wisconsin Press Photographer's Association Pictures Competition, Personality category. Eleanor Roosevelt was pho...
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"The Charge of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment"

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Description: Sculpture of "The Charge of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment." Sculpture by Jacob Fjelde.
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Portrait of George William Piernot

Date: 1970
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of George William Piernot (1922-2000). Piernot served as a member of the Madison Fire Department from about 1946 until his reti...
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Fire on State Street

Date: 1977
Description: Fire on second floor of turret tower in a brick building at the corner of State and Johnson Streets.
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Young Dickey Chapelle

Date: 1938
Description: A candid head and shoulders portrait of a young Dickey Chapelle without eyeglasses.
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Automobile Club Members

Date: 10 10 1966
Description: Four auto club members work on a 1932 Ford Coupe. Rick Burkee (right, foreground) and Robin Friberg work on engine parts as Greg Beaster polishes the car h...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 08 1946
Description: Paul R. Anderson of DeForest, Wisconsin, winner of the 1946 Madison Soap Box Derby, who went on to race at the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio. ...
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Fritz Albert

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Description: Portrait of Fritz Albert making a photograph will his Rolliflex on a tripod. Photograph was used in the exhibit, Land and People, Fritz Albert-Photographs.
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Men in a Rowboat Fishing

Date: 1930
Description: View through birch trees looking down at two men fishing from a rowboat near the shoreline. Another boat is tethered to the shore nearby.
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Alex Elliott

Date: 1910
Description: A seated, head and shoulders portrait of a man with a full, gray beard moustache holding a pipe to his mouth. He is wearing a hat and a vest.
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Light through Venetian Blinds

Date: 1937
Description: Interior view of the windows designed for the Keck-Gottschalk apartment building. The windows are angled open and the sun is shining through the exterior V...
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William Conrad Seipp

Date: 1910
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of William Conrad Seipp (1851-1912), the oldest child of Chicago Brewer Conrad Seipp. He is wearing a suit with vest and a n...
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Dr. Hans Reese

Date: 1950
Description: Sitting, waist-up portait of Hans Heinrich Reese M.D. (1891-1973) holding a book and his eyeglasses, with bookshelves behind him. Dr. Reese was the husband...
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Leo Lania

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Description: Dramatic waist-up portrait of an older Leo Lania (born Lazar Herrmann) holding a cigarette in a holder.
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Karl Paul Gerhardt Link

Date: 03 18 1958
Description: Formal quarter-length studio portrait of Karl Paul Gerhardt Link with his pipe. He was a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin and helpe...
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Family Portrait

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman, and two children. The man in the center is wearing a watch fob on his vest and is standing ...
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Family Portrait

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman, and two children. The man in the center is wearing a watch fob on his vest and is standing ...
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Portrait of Unidentified Woman

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Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a full-length dark-colored dress with polka-dots, embellished with leaf patterned trim, ruffles and puffy ...
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"Tiger Woman"

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Description: A nude woman, with long hair, is standing and posing against a backdrop. Her body has been painted to look like the face of a tiger, with stripes on her ar...

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