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Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
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Description: | Helen Farnsworth Mears sitting on a ladder and resting her head against her hand. |
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Description: | Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers. |
Date: | 1832 |
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Description: | Engraving of Wahk-Tä-Ge-Li, a Sioux Indian in warrior dress. |
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Description: | Two boys of different ages using wood tools, including planes and files, during a classroom exercise. |
Date: | 1911 |
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Description: | Carvers at work on the Karl Bitter sculpture for the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison). Between 1911 and 1913, a group of stone cutters (ma... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Four men use a ladder to pose on top of each other. There is a painted backdrop behind them. They are wearing suit jackets, vests with watch fobs, and trou... |
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Description: | Portrait of sculptor Adolph Weinman. He sculpted the South Pediment at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and the seated figure of Abraham Lincoln that sits in f... |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Sculptor Jean Pond Miner working on her statue "Forward" in the Wisconsin Building at the Columbian Exposition. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Advertising card for William Deering & Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a man showing "The Deering Binder, carefully studied and ... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Three stone cutters (probably Italian) working on decorative details over the east entrance of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Wisconsin Histori... |
Date: | 06 01 1934 |
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Description: | Jean Randolph, with bandaged ankle, which she sprained when she fell from the ladder on which she is standing, drawing an 8' x 12' crayon mural of a knight... |
Date: | 12 02 |
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Description: | Jobless workers in the Vocational School class working on their crafts projects, O.W. Smith, Lewis A. Russett, Rudolph Beckman. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A female artist sculpting a female figure from clay. |
Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim... |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A jigsaw in the hands of Harry Westphal makes smooth curves on the end of a piece of wood. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | Mr. Hyde and Miss Wigent filming a woman and child while the woman is filling pails with water from a hand-pump. The original caption reads: "Taking footag... |
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