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First Graders

Date: 06 01 1989
Description: First graders writing and drawing while lying on the floor.
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Ralph Immell and Cartoonist, Hy Vogel

Date: 11 30 1937
Description: Adjutant General Ralph Immell, sitting at his desk, having his face drawn by cartoonist, Hy Vogel.
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Chauncey Stewart, Wisconsin Engraving Company Artist

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: Chauncey D. Stewart, commercial artist on the staff of Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Carroll Street. He is at work on an illustration from which an engra...
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Tom Brown, Cartoonist

Date: 11 10 1932
Description: Tom Brown, cartoonist, drawing at his kitchen table beside a large Queen's Best wood burning stove.
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Margueretta Dalton at Easel

Date: 10 14 1932
Description: Margueretta Dalton, 1314 Randall Court, student of Prof. Stebbins' life class in drawing, shown standing at easel, drawing with charcoal.
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Farmer on Tractor

Date: 04 03 1930
Description: Photograph of a drawing of a farmer on a tractor.
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6th Grade Art Class Listening to the Radio

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Description: A sixth grade class listening to an art lesson on the WHA-FM Wisconsin School of the Air program "Let's Draw" conducted by James Schwalbach.
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Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
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Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
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Cheese-Mobile

Date: 1964
Description: Principals in the "world's largest cheese" promotion, study the artist's sketch of the "Cheese-Mobile" that will send the cheese to the New York World's Fa...
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Alice in Dairyland Dress Sketch

Date: 1948
Description: A sketch of the winning dress designed by Betty Lou Jahn of Milwaukee for the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948. Not only was the design worn by the first A...
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Art Class at the State School for the Deaf

Date: 1893
Description: Female students practice painting and drawing in an art class session at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher assists in the background.
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Jean Brunet

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Description: Crayon portrait of Jean Brunet who kept a lumberman's stopping place at Brunette Falls (now Cornell), on the Chippewa River.
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Producing Land Cover Map

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Description: Person's hands, one with with wedding ring on left hand, using a ruler, pencil, and protractor to draw a land cover map for Wisconsin Land Economic Invento...
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Child Salon of Art

Date: 05 07 1944
Description: Billy Gorman, third grade student at Emerson School, is showing Robert Murray, sixth grade student at Lowell School, his picture displayed in the Child Sal...
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High School Student with Iwo Jima Image

Date: 06 08 1945
Description: East High School student with an image of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, which was used for a newly issued 3 cent postage stamp. This stamp is ...
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Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" Drawing

Date: 02 03 1947
Description: Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" drawing, which received the Joseph R. Rothchild prize of $25 in graphics at the Madison Artists exhibition.
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Comparison of Tractor Farming and Horse Farming

Date: 1936
Description: A drawing titled: "The Life of Two Farmers" illustrating the difference in work loads between a horse farmer and a Farmall tractor farmer. According to the...
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Tractor Advertising Illustration

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising illustration showing a farmer using a horse and plow in a field while the image of a tractor and the word "kerosene" is floating above in the s...
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Tractor Advertising Illustration

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising illustration showing a man driving a Titan 10-20 tractor down a road with markers labeled: "Material Test, Factory Inspection, Brake Test, Draw...

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