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University of Wisconsin Historical Decorative Map

Date: 1949
Description: Color bird's-eye map of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as it was midcentury, with two co-eds, several photographs of campus landmarks around edges, an...
Photograph

Night Session Art Class

Date: 1949
Description: A night session art class, for University of Wisconsin Extension Center in Milwaukee.
Photograph

Bascom Hall

Date: 1949
Description: Exterior of entrance to Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison camppus. Students are sitting around the Lincoln Monument o...
Photograph

Group of Shriners in Oriental Band at Chicago Parade

Date: 1949
Description: Shriners on parade in Chicago. The men are dressed in middle eastern costume for an "Oriental Band" from the "-ktash Shrine Temple" [name obscured].
Photograph

Statue of Abraham Lincoln

Date: 1949
Description: The statue of Lincoln as a young man stands on the Ripon College campus, west of Farr Hall. Alumnus Clarence A. Shaler created the sculpture, delivered in ...
Photograph

Irna Phillips Designing a Floor Plan

Date: 1949
Description: Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children.
Manuscript

Wisconsin State Fair Letterhead

Date: 1949
Description: Letterhead for the Wisconsin State Fair, with a landscape of red abstract shapes along the bottom and left-hand side of the page.

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