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Interior of Ole Bull Residence

Date: 1879
Description: The interior of the Ole Bull Residence at 130 East Gilman Street, featuring good views of Victorian furniture, carpeting, lamps (including a crystal chande...
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Zimmerman House Interior

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Description: Interior view of the Albert G. Zimmerman house at 746 East Gorham Street. The view includes a fireplace, patterned carpeting and wicker chairs. In the fore...
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Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor

Date: 11 08 1900
Description: Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F...
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Woman with Man in Middle-Eastern Attire

Date: 10 04 1945
Description: Overhead view of a woman in western attire sitting on a cushion on a floor next to a man in Middle-Eastern attire who is sitting cross-legged on the floor ...
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Woman with Four Children

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Description: Woman sitting with three girls and one boy in a room, probably a farm family.
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Spring House Cleaning

Date: 04 01 1949
Description: William G. "Bill" Fisher, 733 Copeland Avenue, shares housecleaning tasks by cleaning, oiling and checking the family vacuum cleaner.
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Wisconsin Governor's Residence - Porch/Garden Room

Date: 03 09 1950
Description: Sun streams into the first floor porch and garden room of the Governor's residence at 101 Cambridge Road. Its color is repeated in the warm golds of the ti...
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Carol Sisk Patterson and Daughter

Date: 09 29 1950
Description: Mrs. Oliver M. (Carol Sisk) Patterson, of Fox Lake, Illinois sitting near a fireplace with her daughter, Alison, during a visit with her parents Mr. and Mr...
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Pi Beta Phi Sorority Benefit Tea

Date: 11 05 1951
Description: Mrs. Mary Conley and her daughter, Barbara, wear hand-loomed mother and daughter aprons which will be on sale at the annual benefit tea held by the Pi Beta...
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Philip C. and Kathleen Rosenthal House Dining Room

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Philip and Kathleen Rosenthal's salmon red-house in Shorewood Hills, designed by Milwaukee architect Alvin Jansama and built in the late 1940's, is on two ...
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Kiser House

Date: 07 23 1952
Description: Living room with fireplace and needlepoint chair in the Elliott & Jennie Kiser house on Old Middleton Road near Heim Avenue, built in 1860 by Joseph Heim. ...
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Cat

Date: 1910
Description: The Middleton family cat poses near a basket on a table which is covered by an oriental carpet.
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Ethel Miller Models Skirt

Date: 10 08 1953
Description: Ethel Miller models a skirt made by her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller. The photograph was taken to accompany an article in the Wisconsin Sta...
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Ada Moseley of 616 North Carroll Street demonstrates a Christmas custom by sitting near a fireplace reading "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
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Prof. Raymond Dvorak

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Professor Raymond Dvorak stands beside a grandfather clock in the hallway of his home at 2001 Jefferson Street, decorated with oriental rugs. Mr. Dvorak, d...
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Thanksgiving with Grandmother

Date: 11 18 1954
Description: Portrait of two women and an infant as they celebrate a three-generation Thanksgiving gathering at the Rendall home. William "Jay" Rendall, 9 months; Joan ...
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Madison Art Association's Beaux Arts Ball

Date: 04 09 1956
Description: Mrs. Horace Kent (Lucia) Tenney eyes her daughter, Cornelia "Neena," who dresses in a costume prior to the Madison Art Association's Beaux Arts Ball.
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Robert Levine Home Interior

Date: 03 26 1957
Description: Bella Levine is relaxing in the corner of the living room in her home at 3412 Crestwood Drive. The room features a glass enclosed fireplace, oak paneling a...
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Portrait of a Young Girl

Date: 1912
Description: Portrait of a young girl standing beside a wicker-back chair.
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Studio Portrait of European American Man

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified young man posing standing. He is wearing dark-colored trousers and a light-co...

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