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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Former Vilas Park Zoo director Frederick Winkelmann and his wife Emma, tending to canaries. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of magician and entertainer Ben Bergor, promoting his availability as an after dinner speaker ("a truly new and humorous approach in storytellin... |
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| Description: | Ben Bergor letterhead, promoting Bergor as a theatrical agent and entertainment consultant, with a cartoon of a bird wearing a top hat and a bow tie, and c... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Ben Bergor, with illustrations of theatrical masks, Bergor's head, his "Remember this bird!" symbol, and a cartoon of Bergor at the bottom of... |
| Date: | 08 15 1961 |
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| Description: | Johnny Heimlich (8), son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Heimlich of 208 Nygard Avenue, posing with his pet robin "Chirp" which the family found as a baby bird. |
| Date: | 03 11 1965 |
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| Description: | The Henry Vilas Park Zoo adds hornbills, thanks to a gift from the Monona Grove Civic Club. New zoo residents include a pair of Indian hornbills. |
| Date: | 06 09 1965 |
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| Description: | A robin sitting peacefully on her nest on a railing of the choir loft of a church in the midst of construction. Workmen are seen in the background. The chu... |
| Date: | 09 2013 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 2013 |
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| Description: | Canadian geese floating near the shore on a lake. In the distance a fisherman is standing on a small boat reeling in his line. |
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| Description: | Prone flat sculpture of a goose in flight set in a bed of white gravel in the lawn of Sid's backyard. It is a gray slab cut to look like a flying bird. The... |
| Date: | 02 2014 |
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| Description: | A small framed picture of a bird hanging on the wall near a wooden cabinet with glass doors. Above the picture is a white shape created by a reflection of ... |
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| Description: | Painting of Sid, wearing a hat, waders, and a coat, gazing up at a group of geese flying over Lake Mendota. A fishing rod is lying on the ice near a fishin... |
| Date: | 08 1970 |
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| Description: | "Six-Sided Red Lantern," "Three-Tiered Fountain" and a flat goose cut from gray stone (laid in a bed of white gravel) in Sid's backyard. A corner of the pa... |
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| Description: | Three flat goose shapes, with wings outstretched, one above the other on a square post set at an angle, set in the yard among garden plants, shrubs, and a ... |
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| Description: | Line drawing of an engineer driving a whimsical locomotive along railroad tracks through a country scene, in which a bull is seen sitting on the grass and ... |
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| Description: | Drawing of a pinkish-red rabbit jumping out of a black top hat. It's black body is the outline of the sole of a left shoe. Pink eggs decorated with black s... |
| Date: | 08 19 2014 |
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| Description: | View of Lake Mendota from the Memorial Union Terrace. A man is sitting in one of the terrace chairs at one of the tables, looking at his phone. A seagull i... |
| Date: | 10 12 2014 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the altar in St. Patrick's Catholic Church. The walls are of cream colored marble, and on the back wall is a large statue of Jesus on the ... |
| Date: | 10 16 2014 |
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| Description: | View down shoreline towards the branch of a tree leaning over the water of Monona Bay. There are large rocks in the water along the shoreline. American Coo... |
| Date: | 10 26 2014 |
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| Description: | An oak tree, barren of leaves, standing in the middle of tall grass. Trees, some with green, red, and yellow leaves are in the background. A hawk is flying... |
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