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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a large, multi-generational Norwegian family and friends gathered for a picnic celebration. In the foreground are picnic baskets ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Ladies sit on the front porch of a long two-story house. One woman is next to a baby carriage. On the porch's roof is a man with a ladder painting the hous... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around a table with dishes on top. To the right is a man sitting and holding a violin, and to his right a boy is holding a gun. The ho... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A large group of people sitting around a table in the yard. The men and women are wearing hats. The table has a large piece of ornamental glassware on it. ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 07 1875 |
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| Description: | Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A family group is posing in yard. Part of the group is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence which encloses the brick Greek Revival house. Anot... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A hall, possibly at the McCormick Works Club House, decorated with vases of flowers, long tables laid with place settings, and chairs set up for a banquet ... |
| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Two-story home with sloping roof. One man is whipping a team of eight cattle while another man drives the plow behind them. To the left stands a man near a... |
| Date: | 02 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Connie Schwoegler, national individual match-game bowling champion, was honored at a testimonial dinner sponsored by the Madison Elks "Hi-Bill" Club at the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view, with desks in the foreground, of an elementary classroom decorated with a Christmas tree near the blackboard, and other holiday decorations,... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A group of individuals sit on a log lawn swing in the yard of the Drew cottage. Features a caption that reads, "Charter members of lunchgrabbers league." H... |
| Date: | 10 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Art Association celebrate the organization's 50th year with a tea and exhibition preview. Left to right, around the tea table are: M... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A watercolor painting by Jens von Silver presented to the zoo by the Rennebohm Drug Stores. The painting shows a child reaching up to feed an elephant at t... |
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| Description: | Interior of the Flemish Dining Room at the Elton Hotel, built in 1905. Decorative lighting surrounds a domed skylight, and below, tables are set for a meal... |
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| Description: | Interior of a restaurant and bar at American Art Studio. Tables and chairs fill the room and a bar is in the right corner. Framed art lines the walls. |
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| Description: | View of a band and dancers at Hotel Agua Caliente, opened in 1928 and dedicated by Wayne McAllister in Tijuana, Mexico. Guests sit at dining tables on the ... |
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| Description: | Chairs and tables are arranged throughout a dining room on the terrace of Greenbrier Hotel. The room is decorated with plants and statues and features an o... |
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| Description: | View of the parlor with a settee and a desk that line the outer walls. A spinning wheel and a piano are on the right near a window. Two chairs are in front... |
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