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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman on the left is wearing regalia and the woman on... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman sitting on the left is wearing rega... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a European American girl posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop, holding a Ho-Chunk cradle board with a china-headed doll. She is... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Interior of "Meadow Garden," home of Governor George Wallon. The living room is decorated with portraits, paintings, and other ornaments. Tea is set at the... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman in an old-fashioned dress sits and knits by a table in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | Amateur painting by Eleanor R. Craighill. Representing a woman in an apron and hat polishing(?) a pot in front of the kitchen fireplace in the Governor's P... |
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| Description: | A farmer is planting corn using the planter wire method. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Pictured is the Madison Theater's Guild's costume designer who uses only the name Loie. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bertha Gesell washing doll clothes in a wooden tub. Clothes are on a clothesline behind her. Her doll sit... |
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| Description: | View of a room filled with portraits and relics from the Civil War. A piano is placed below a window across the room, and the walls are lined with framed p... |
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| Description: | Interior of a restaurant at Hotel Astor, built in 1904. The room features chairs, tables, potted plants, and lavish decor. Along the walls are framed paint... |
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| Description: | Interior of a restaurant at Hotel Astor, built in 1904. View from a room with tables and chairs toward a short staircase in an archway that leads to a room... |
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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: | A studio portrait of an infant in an elaborate stroller/carriage/buggy in front of a painted backdrop. The stroller is covered by a lacy umbrella, and the ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Copy print of a poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. At the center is an image of a painting depicting a woman nursing a baby by Heckman & Zi... |
| Date: | 10 19 2007 |
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| Description: | "Elizabeth was our waitress at John's in Beaver Dam." |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of the main living area of a Norwegian dwelling at Little Norway showing a fireplace, cradle and spinning wheel. Pictures and household ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Posed group shot of the United Steelworkers of America District 32 Convention Resolutions Committee. The men wear suits and are all sitting or standing aro... |
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| Description: | Copy of the painting, "John Alden and Priscilla." Married in 1623 in Plymouth, the couple sit in a colonial home. Priscilla spins wool on a spinning wheel... |
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