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Randall School Children Painting Mural

Date: 10 16 1934
Description: Randall School, 10 N. Spooner Street. Two children are painting a mural of a neighborhood scene.
Painting

Wisconsin State Capitol Mural

Date: 1910
Description: Hugo Ballin's "Spirit of Labor" mural from the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Caption reads: "Spirit of Labor, by Hugo Ballin. Mural Decoration. Capitol...
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Italian Village Restaurant

Date: 08 20 1954
Description: Interior of the Italian Village Restaurant, 651 State Street, Joseph Troia, proprietor, "Madison's smartest, most unique, most elaborate restaurant, Duncan...
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Double Exposure with a Ho-Chunk Girl and Woman

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Description: Double exposure, one exposure of a studio full-length portrait of a Ho-Chunk girl posing standing in front of a painted backdrop wearing several necklaces,...
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University Church at Fordham University

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Description: View looking down aisle toward the altar. The columns that run the length of the aisle have light fixtures and are decorated with garland. The sanctuary c...
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Assumption Church

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Description: View from aisle toward the main and side altars of the Assumption Church. Murals decorate the walls and the main altar contains four statues and a mural o...
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Photo Playhouse

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Description: Tintype of Estella Moessner Goldenberger of Madison, (in the window), with her friend Celia Gibson posing in front of a painted backdrop.
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Barn Painting

Date: 09 25 1980
Description: Pastoral panoramic painting on the side of a barn. Two people on scaffolding can be seen working on the mural at right. A silo juts above the barn. There i...
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North Vietnamese Propaganda

Date: 1967
Description: Dorothy Schoenbrun (far left) views an anti-American wall mural in the North Vietnamese village of Phu Xa. A man is standing next to her. Schoenbrun was tr...
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Studio Portrait of Girl in Snow with Dog and Doll

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Description: Cabinet card studio portrait of a young girl, posed with a doll in a baby carriage and her dog. The background is a painted backdrop of the Wisconsin State...
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Children Looking at "Save Our Cats" Mural on Trailer

Date: 1975
Description: View of a group of children in jackets and an adult looking at a mural of endangered big cat species painted on a trailer. The painting was part of one of ...
Photograph

Troitski Cathedral

Date: 1918
Description: Exterior view from road of the Troitski Cathedral.erior of the governor general's house of the U.S. Army's North Russian Expeditionary Force.
Painting

The Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Cranberry harvesters at work. Mural painting in the U.S. Post Office at Berlin, Wis.
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Studio Portrait European American Man and Woman

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified European American man posing sitting on a prop stone wall on the right, and a European Am...
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Boy Standing at Gate

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored portrait of a boy standing in the arch of a decorative iron gate holding the door open with his right hand and holding a hand fan and handkerc...
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Dealership in Russia

Date: 1900
Description: View from street of a dealership building in Russia. Two men are standing on the sidewalk on the left. There are three murals or paintings posted on the wa...
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Four Women on Stage at the Opera House

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Description: Slightly elevated view of four women in flowing, classical dresses dancing on the stage of the Fuller Opera House. Behind them is a painted backdrop.
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A Place for All People

Date: 09 2013
Description: A mural of a hummingbird, a robin, a fox, a cat, a frog, a mouse, and a turtle together in a lush grove. The mural is on the wall at the neighborhood cente...
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Clara Frances Tyrrell

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Description: Ferrotype/tintype of Clara Frances Tyrrell. Three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing halfway to the right, with hands resting on a garden balustrade...
Postcard

Mural Decoration, Brown County Courthouse

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Description: Caption reads: "Mural Decoration, Brown County Courthouse." Text on reverse reads: "This mural decoration, on the south wall of the east entrance hall, rep...

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