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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Zona Gale (Mrs. William Breese) in formal pose with her hair up and her hands clasped in front of her. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses. |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 05 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Hawthorne bicycle from Ward's. She is wearing jodhpurs and bo... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Lutie Stearns, copied from 'The Echo' of 1922, the Milwaukee Normal Annual. |
| Date: | 03 22 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Romance Koopman and her son, Bobby Koopman. She did freelance writing and radio scripts, and was a winner of five national awards for writing. Her mother w... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Author August Derleth surrounded by books at his desk. |
| Date: | 05 20 1921 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edward W. Spencer, Milwaukee lawyer and author. |
| Date: | 09 1966 |
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| Description: | Writer August Derleth with Governor Warren Knowles. Knowles had presented Derleth with the Wisconsin Arts Award. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin author August Derleth standing in front of his Sauk City home, "the Place of the Hawks." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Zona Gale (Mrs. William Breese) standing near a window and holding a rose in her left hand. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A portrait of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, sitting. Mrs. Trimpey was an authority on antiques and antique dolls. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of Sauk City author August Derleth. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Sauk City author August Derleth sitting in a wing back chair near a fireplace in his home, "The Place of Hawks." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Pulitzer Prize winning author Zona Gale wearing a hat and a coat with a fur collar. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Writer and conservationist Wallace Stegner, and his wife Mary, during a visit to Alaska as a member of the National Parks Advisory Board and special assist... |
| Date: | 08 04 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William F. Steuber, Jr., a highway engineer and author of the novel, "Us, Inc." |
| Date: | 03 30 1954 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 04 28 1956 |
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| 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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