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| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | An unusual photograph of four Madison women working on decorations for the soiree of the Civic Opera Guild, taken through a glass-topped table. They are: L... |
| Date: | 10 06 1964 |
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| Description: | Two women making a table decoration with candles and pine cones. |
| Date: | 08 04 1964 |
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| Description: | A counted thread embroidery of a rooster, created by Elinor Schnore. |
| Date: | 08 04 1964 |
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| Description: | Elinor Schnore with her counted thread embroidery of a totem pole mounted in a frame. |
| Date: | 10 08 1964 |
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| Description: | Fourteen individuals, or schools, are honored by the Governor's Council of the Arts at a Governor's Executive Residence dinner. The recipients are honored ... |
| Date: | 10 30 1964 |
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| Description: | Alpha Tau Omega and Kappa Delta caught Michigan Spartans in this "No-Gain" pose depicted in the Homecoming decorations. |
| Date: | 10 25 1964 |
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| Description: | Decorated styrofoam balls for Christmas decorations. |
| Date: | 12 17 1964 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Zimmerman, age 6, is looking over a polyvinyl Christmas tree at the Dream Lanes bowling alley on Cottage Grove Road. Green polyvinyl is the latest th... |
| Date: | 05 27 1965 |
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| Description: | Abstract art decorating the tabernacle at the new Holy Name Seminary. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A woman is performing a headstand on her front lawn as an elderly woman is standing and watching from the sidewalk. A sign on the lawn reads: 'Start Under,... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Was is crouching inside two triangular walls open on one side. In front of her are two painted signs lying on the grass and read: 'Step Here' and... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | View looking up at the facade of a house. A sign at the bottom reads: "Atlantis" fashioned in wire. Above the sign is a painting that includes two male fac... |
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| Description: | A man is posing in profile in Sid's kitchen, carrying a bucket in his left hand and holding a towel over his right shoulder. On the wall in the background ... |
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| Description: | Non-functioning clock on the wall of Sid's kitchen. The clock consists 12 ceramic plates denoting each hour in Romain numerals and decorated with neoclassi... |
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| Description: | Hand-painted plow, with design of flowers in Sid's backyard, next to the Tea House and the base of a sculpture. |
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| Description: | A detail of "The Seven Lively Arts," a 16 x 10 foot ceiling fresco in The Fauerbach Brewing Company (Brewery). |
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| Description: | Sid sitting on a couch reading a book in his living room amidst Asian furnishings and objects. |
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| Description: | A decorative clock with roman numerals on plates, signs of the zodiac, and other illustrations displayed on the kitchen wall of Sid's house. |
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| Description: | Sculpture of a cannon in the shape of an imaginary dragon on top of a television set in Sid's living room. Behind the sculpture is a bookcase full of books... |
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| Description: | View of a corner of Sid's living room. There is a painting by Sid of a pine tree in a mountainscape hanging on the wall. Below it is a bookshelf with sever... |
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