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Thornton N. Wilder

Date: 1949
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses.
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Frederick Jackson Turner

Date: 1884
Description: Portrait, head and shoulders of Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, scholar, and writer. As a freshman at the University of Wisconsin.
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Mrs. Lehman and Son John

Date: 09 28 1932
Description: Mrs. C.D. Lehman, a writer of children's books, with her son, John, a University of Wisconsin student. They are pictured in their home in the Princeton apa...
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Chuck Seals, Artist and Craftsman

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm...
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Booker T. Washington with Dick and Jenk Lloyd Jones

Date: 04 1914
Description: Booker T. Washington stands flanked by Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones (left) and Jenkin Lloyd Jones (right) near the shore of a Madison lake. Washington, desc...
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Wisconsin Union Theater Centennial Play, "River Boat"

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat," an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Un...
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Harold Gauer at the Wisconsin State Capitol

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Description: Gauer in Madison in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol after speaking with the Governor on CARE business.
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Derleth and Gov. Knowles

Date: 09 1966
Description: Writer August Derleth with Governor Warren Knowles. Knowles had presented Derleth with the Wisconsin Arts Award.
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William F. Steuber, Jr.

Date: 08 04 1953
Description: Portrait of William F. Steuber, Jr., a highway engineer and author of the novel, "Us, Inc."
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Joe Mercedes

Date: 03 30 1954
Description: Portrait of Joe Mercedes of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He was the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Tourist Bureau and publisher of at least 23 editions of ...
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Humbert and Marie Versace Family

Date: 01 26 1956
Description: Family portrait of Humbert and Marie Versace with their four children. Colonel Versace, a West Point graduate, is senior advisor for the Wisconsin National...
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Madison Authors

Date: 04 28 1956
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cockefair sit for a portrait while holding the book "The Story of You" that they authored.
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William Best Hesseltine

Date: 1960
Description: Informal portrait of William Hesseltine, University of Wisconsin History Professor (1932-1963) and President of the Wisconsin State Historical Society (19...
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Deems Taylor and William Doudna

Date: 10 19 1957
Description: Deems Taylor, 'Composer-Critic-Author,' talking with William Doudna, television editor of the Wisconsin State Journal about TV. Taylor is chairman o...
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Jerry C. McNeely

Date: 12 19 1957
Description: Jerry C. McNeely, associate professor of speech at the University of Wisconsin, has had two major television plays produced, one on "Studio One" and the ot...
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Autographing Tea

Date: 09 21 1957
Description: William F. Steuber Jr. autographs a copy of his book, "The Landlooker," for Mrs. Robert Cromey at an autographing tea at Graham's Book and Stationary Store...
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Autographing Tea

Date: 09 21 1957
Description: Tere Rios (Mrs. H.J. Versace), left, chatting with the store proprietor who holds a copy of her book "An Angel Grows Up." They are at an autographing tea a...
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F. Gerald Ham Wisconsin State Archivist

Date: 09 28 1988
Description: Waist-up staff portrait of F. Gerald Ham, State Archivist of Wisconsin from 1964 to 1989 and the head of the Division of Archives and Manuscripts at the St...
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Honorary Degree Recipients, Wisconsin Alumni Association Banquet

Date: 06 03 1961
Description: Seated are, Mrs. Mary Ingraham Bunting, president of Radcliffe College, and Louis P. Lochner, Fair Haven, New Jersey, Pulitzer prize winning foreign corres...
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James B. Conant Praises U.W. Teacher Education Program

Date: 11 30 1964
Description: James B. Conant, author of books on American education, speaking at a press conference at the end of a two-day visit to the U.W. campus, praised the U.W. t...

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