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| Description: | Helen Farnsworth Mears sitting on a ladder and resting her head against her hand. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Wisconsin sculptor. The only sculptor for whom Lincoln posed, Ream received the controversial commission ... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval-framed formal studio portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, when she was a clerk in the Post Office Department and at the beginning of her art career, age 15. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Karl Bitter, sculptor of "Wealth" and other statuary for the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Vinnie Ream posing in her studio in Washington, beside her bust of Lincoln which had been brought from the White House after the assassination. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Daniel C. French, sculptor of the figure, "Wisconsin" which graces the top of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. French met George Post at the C... |
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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: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Ottoman Parrhysius, cold meat cook at the Loraine Hotel, posing with a parrot ice sculpture that he created. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | An artist sculpts a bust from photographs of Margaret McGuire, the first Alice in Dairyland, most likely to be displayed at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposi... |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908), Massachusetts-based sculptor. Handwritten inscription at bottom of card reads, "Harriet ... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Edmonia Lewis (1845-1890), African American Sculptor. Lewis, the first famous American sculptor of African descent, had a Chipp... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Theodatus Garlick (1805-1884), American surgeon and sculptor. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Garlick was one of th... |
| Date: | 02 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Dorothea Schon, Sun Prairie artist, at work in her studio on her sculpture of Christ the King. When it is completed, the four and a half by three foot wood... |
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| Description: | Wood carver Jerry Holter outside his studio in Clam Lake. |
| Date: | 05 13 1968 |
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| Description: | Thurman Butler, 16, with the sculpture he made while practicing cutting and welding techniques in a foundry course at Milwaukee Technical college. He calle... |
| Date: | 12 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Lowell "Gooch" Jenkins was a 250-pound tackle on the University of Wisconsin’s football team, but he was also a skilled art student. After graduating, he b... |
| Date: | 01 21 1964 |
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| Description: | Artist and sculptor Chester Mayer shown with a bust of President Lincoln, which had been created by Chester's uncle, Louis Mayer. Chester is working on a l... |
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| Description: | Sid standing with a fishing pole in his backyard. He is wearing folded down hip waders and he has a cigar in his mouth. He is standing with his foot proppe... |
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