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| Description: | Jane Addams holding an open book, surrounded by immigrant children. |
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| Description: | Lulu Glaser (1874-1958), renowned Victorian/Edwardian comedic actress and singer. |
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| Description: | Queenie Vassar (1870-1960) Scottish-born stage and motion picture actress of the 1930s and 1940s. |
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| Description: | Miss Batchelor, aspiring actress around the turn of the 19th century. |
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| Description: | Jennie Goldthwaite, a performer from around the turn of the century. |
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| Description: | Anna Neagle [Florence Marjorie Robertson] (1904-1986), started as a dancer and became a popular film actress. |
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| Description: | Mrs. Stuart Robson (1861-1924), actress, started her career as Miss May Waldron. |
| Date: | 06 27 1839 |
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| Description: | Invitation for Darwin Clark to the Independence Ball on the 4th of July, 1839 at the American Hotel. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee looking southwest toward the county courthouse under construction in the public square west of St. John's Cathedral. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th... |
| Date: | 01 01 1900 |
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| Description: | Cartoon drawing of a man wielding a feather quill pen as a sworn and a sheet of paper as a shield. |
| Date: | 10 24 1863 |
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| Description: | Panoramic wood-engraving of a cattle fair in New Haven, after a sketch by H.C. Curtis. Caption reads: "Cattle Show and Agricultural Faib [sic] at Ha... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Charles W. Short (1794-1863), Kentucky botanist. Worked at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, 1825-38. The plant genus ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and ... |
| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster for "Thighs, Sighs, and Other Things," by John Tuschen and "Belly Lint," by Hannibal. Includes list of various Madison bookstores where it was avail... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a lecture by Peter Saul, a visiting artist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department. Features a crude cartoon of a woman ho... |
| Date: | 11 1970 |
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| Description: | A poster advertising a poetry reading in the Old Madison room in the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The poet is Cid Corman, ... |
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| Description: | The text of the famous speech by Abraham Lincoln with an oval portrait. The oval around the portrait is embossed. |
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| Description: | Drawing on paper with lacy edging to commemorate a speech made by the Honorable Ithamar C. Sloan in the House of Representatives, January 23, 1865 on the r... |
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