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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of John A. Johnson, painted by James Reeve Stuart. Johnson was a prominent Norwegian immigrant who became a farmer, newspaper journ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A large family group is posed in the foreground in front of a frame house with shutters and a lightening rod. Greek Revival style house, possibly belonging... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A family seated around a table that has a fringed cloth. The children sit in small chairs and a woman holds a baby. The frame house behind a picket fence h... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family & Visitors." Seated outdoors left to right around a table are: Mrs. R.B. Anderson, H. Herlofson, Professor Rasmus B. A... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The interior of a Norwegian-American Lutheran Church decorated with garlands and religious admonitions in Norwegian. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the young Andreas Larsen Dahl taken in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, before he immigrated to the United States in 1869. Dahl was born ... |
| Date: | 01 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Included in the group portrait taken at the 50th anniversary luncheon of the founding of the Gudrid Reading circle are, from the left: Mrs. Juliue E. (Ann... |
| Date: | 10 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Lithgow Osborne, former Ambassador to Norway, and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation. |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert (Dorothy L.) Sirney, standing in front of a curtain and wearing a Norwegian costume. She is holding a wooden platter she has decorated with ros... |
| Date: | 02 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Miss Gay Braxton, director of the Neighborhood House and chairman of the Altrusa Club scholarship fund, at right, with two graduate students of the Univers... |
| Date: | 08 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Baron Ludvig af Ugglas of Sweden in work clothes at the site of Madison's Veterans hospital where he has a summer job. He will be attending the U.W. Colleg... |
| Date: | 08 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of Baron Ludvig af Ugglas from Sweden, with his wife Christane, and their 15-week-old daughter, Catharina. |
| Date: | 03 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Twenty-two year-old Danish immigrant, Neils Lassen, right, uses a globe map to point out his native Denmark to Major Roberts of the Madison Army and Air Fo... |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Hannah Heegaard-Jensen demonstrates a Christmas tradition by frying ableskivers on Christmas Eve. |
| Date: | 03 10 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 09 1956 |
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| Description: | "Inga's Dowry" display of Norwegian artifacts, part of The Village Green exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical Society. High School student Mimi Hastings, dr... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Lina Hveem, mother of Odva Haug, seated in a chair and wearing Norwegian costume for 17th May, just after arriving in the United St... |
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