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Children's Art Exhibit

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Alford Beckwith, seventh grade student at Longfellow School, with three of his animal paintings exhibited in the "Children Look at Wisconsin" exhibition at...
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Children's Art Exhibit

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: John Gorman, 1st grader at Emerson, and Gretchen Hovig, 7th grader at Lapham, with their art work being exhibited in the "Children Look at Wisconsin" exhib...
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Children's Art Exhibit

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: Allen Steinmetz, 4th grader at Marquette, Berry Cass, 6th grader at Emerson, and Richard Bender, 9th grader at Central Jr. High School, with their painting...
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Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship Winners

Date: 07 14 1949
Description: Instructor Fritz Carpenter discusses Paul Hochstetter's colorful water color of a University of Wisconsin barn for the three winners of Madison Art Associa...
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National League of American Pen Women

Date: 07 02 1951
Description: Eddie Tomlinson watches as his grandmother, Mrs. E.B. (Florence) Tomlinson make one of her famous wood engravings. Mrs. Tomalinson, who teaches art at the ...
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International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Assn. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead proof for the International Litho Artists and Engravers Insurance and Protective Association of the United States and Canada, of Milwaukee, Wisc...
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Neighborhood House Album: Valentine Play

Date: 1925
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two views of a play performed for Valentine's Day. One side shows a person dressed in jester's attir...
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Thanksgiving Student Artists

Date: 11 20 1957
Description: Portrait of Randall Elementary School student Michael Bollig, age 8, who created a Thanksgiving cut-out poster.
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Christmas Play at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Performers lined up on the stage in "The Toy Shop," a Christmas play, with a Santa figure, a boy in harlequin dress, two boys in military uniforms, girls i...
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Throwing on a Potter's Wheel

Date: 1967
Description: A small audience of children and adults are watching a ceramicist working on a potter's wheel. He is shaping the rim of a vase as while it is spinning on t...
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Potter at Work

Date: 1967
Description: A small audience of children and adults are watching a ceramicist throwing a vase on a pottery wheel. Pottery is sitting on shelving on the left.
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Aaron Bohrod, U.W. Artist-in-Residence, with Family

Date: 04 1955
Description: University of Wisconsin artist-in-residence, Aaron Bohrod, boxing with his son, Neil (8-years-old), at his home located at 715 East Gorham Street.
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Aaron Bohrod, U.W. Artist-in-Residence, with Family

Date: 04 1955
Description: University of Wisconsin artist-in-residence, Aaron Bohrod, relaxing at his home located at 715 East Gorham Street. He is pictured with his son Neil (8-year...
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Winners of 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Awards

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: 8th-Grade winners of the 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. The contest started in 1927 to honor the memory of the Oshkosh-born sculptor to encourag...
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UW Artist-in-Residence Aaron Bohrod and Family

Date: 07 08 1960
Description: University of Wisconsin Artist-in-Residence Aaron Bohrod is shown posing with his family. Shown (L-R) are Aaron Bohrod, Mrs. Ruth Bohrod, Georgi (14), and ...

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