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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

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Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 67

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Description: On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overhead
to tell us who we are and what the odds.
Don't count;
a promise is no more than just a s...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72

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Description: Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,
the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.
Embrace the wall and face away from trouble
in the winter ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 102

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Description: He was taught restraint and patriotic fiction,
letting automation by
to wipe the chimneys clean of issues
and make horizons in the sky
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

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Description: The parson came. He said it well:
Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on,
not the sky.
A little harvest of the sorrows
between the sentenc...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 134

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Description: We always know what day it is
Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee
that stepson drives along the road
and all the dog...
Historical Object

Twelve-Panel Vanderbilt List

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Description: Outside of twelve-panel folding "scroll." A master list of 24-8.5 x 11 sheets of handwritten or typed paper, detailing physical or thematic ways to categor...
Historical Object

Twelve-Panel Vanderbilt List

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Description: Inside of twelve-panel folding "scroll." A master list of 24-8.5 x 11 sheets of handwritten or typed paper, detailing physical or thematic ways to categori...
Historical Object

Hotel Monona Indian Room Cocktail Menu

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Description: Front cover and first page of cocktail menu from the Indian Room, Hotel Monona. The cover features a profile illustration of the head of an American Indian...
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera

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Description: Buttonhole camera owned and used by Stanley C. Hanks, a Madison realtor. The Concealed Vest camera, manufactured by the Stirn brothers, was used between 18...
Historical Object

J.J. Findorff & Sons

Date: 1914
Description: Twelve photographs and one letterhead are mounted on a board with captions. The photographs cover the time before and after a fire in 1909 when the company...
Book or Pamphlet

Hillel Dedication Program, Front

Date: 1956
Description: The front of an invitation to the ceremonies of dedication of the new Hillel Building.
Photograph

Hillel Dedication Program, Inside

Date: 1956
Description: The interior of the invitation to the ceremonies of dedication of the new Hillel Building. The information details the events of the day.

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