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Basketball Team

Date: 1908
Description: Basketball team poses for a group portrait.
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Photograph Gallery of Charles Van Schaick

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Description: Man petting dog, who is sitting on a chair, inside the photographic studio. There is a large studio camera on the left, several pieces of studio furniture,...
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Woman and Religious Painting

Date: 1955
Description: A woman stands beside a religious painting (of her own making?).
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Indian Agency House

Date: 06 1938
Description: View of the parlor with a Nunns and Clark piano, identical to the one owned by Juliette Kinzie when she resided in the house between 1830-1833.
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Oil Painting of Farm Scene

Date: 05 1947
Description: Oil painting of a rural scene showing silos, farm buildings, cows and fields. Taken for Brock Engraving company.
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Robert Hodgell Exhibiting his Paintings

Date: 10 05 1946
Description: Robert Overman Hodgell (left), is shown viewing some of his paintings which were done while he was serving with the navy in the South Pacific. Byron C. Jo...
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Wisconsin Centennial Mural

Date: 1948
Description: Artist William Ashby McCloy working on his Wisconsin Centennial murals in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building.
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Self-Portrait of Man

Date: 1882
Description: Charles J. Van Schaick sitting on a stone balustrade in front of a painted background, ca. 1882–1885. The photograph was probably taken by one of his assis...
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Traffic Safety Award Ceremony

Date: 04 28 1947
Description: Harry Porter, Jr., representing the National Safety Council, Chicago, presenting a plaque to Governor Rennebohm in recognition of an outstanding state traf...
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Cary Bass and his Uncle Cary

Date: 1900
Description: Cary Bass and his Great Uncle Cary seated in a chair. They are most likely inside the Bass family home at 207 Clay Street.
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Cary Bass and his Uncle Cary

Date: 1900
Description: Cary Bass, standing next to his Great Uncle Cary, who is seated. They are most likely seated inside the Bass family home, 207 Clay Street.
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Uncle Cary wth Children

Date: 1900
Description: Great Uncle Cary posing with Everetta and Cary Bass. They are most likely seated inside the Bass family home, 207 Clay Street.
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club

Date: 11 11 1947
Description: Four members of the University of Wisconsin Dames Club doing textile painting. Left to right are Mrs. William E. Peterson (standing), chairman of the grou...
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Wisconsin Governor's Residence

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: Mrs. Oscar (Mary) Rennebohm arranging flowers in the drawing room of the Wisconsin Governor's residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The house is 93 years old ...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union Art Show

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: Jack Jerred, Madison, hanging a picture which is part of the exhibit "Abstraction in Art" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union.
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Central High School Student Council

Date: 01 29 1948
Description: Officers of the Central High School Student Council posed in front of a mural: left to right are Donna Neu, secretary; Coleman Jackson, treasurer; Carl Car...
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Madison Artists Exhibition

Date: 02 01 1948
Description: Tom Dietrich, Appleton, juror for the Madison Artists Exhibition, standing next to the painting "Black Cat and Ruins" by Mrs. Fred Logan, winner of the "Aw...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Three women looking at an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week, showing room furnishing revolving around rural paintings. Pictured lef...
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Two Randall School Students

Date: 04 15 1948
Description: Two Randall School students admiring a picture of a Pilgrim and another of George Washington made by Randall school third graders and displayed on an easel...
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University of Wisconsin Madison Student Art Show

Date: 05 06 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison student art show winners are Gene Pizzuto, Ted Wolff, and Richard Houghton. Pizzuto is chairman of the show's sponsoring co...

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