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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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Unidentified Woman at Drawing Board

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Unidentified woman sitting at a drawing board, possibly Miss or Mrs. Younger.
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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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East High School Graduation Backdrop

Date: 06 08 1945
Description: An East High School student shown with images of the presidents Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt, a depiction of an Iwo Jima flag raising and tw...
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Electric Grill in a Diner

Date: 10 1946
Description: Drawing of an "Electric Grill" in a fictional diner. The photograph was taken for E.I.P. Inc. (Electronic Information Publications), and probably published...
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Hankscraft Baby Bottle Warmer

Date: 10 1946
Description: Sketch of Hankscraft baby bottle warmer.
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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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Ken Ernest Sketching University of Wisconsin Co-eds

Date: 02 05 1947
Description: Cartoonist Ken Ernst and five University of Wisconsin Badger Beauties, one of whom he will select to be cast as one of the characters in his "Mary Worth" ...
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Ken Ernst Sketching Ruth Schmitt

Date: 02 05 1947
Description: Cartoonist Ken Ernst sketching Badger Beauty Ruth Schmitt whom he selected to represent a new character in his comic strip "Mary Worth".
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Washington School First Graders

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph students are watching a "m...
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Paul C. Bennett with Violin

Date: 01 30 1949
Description: Paul C. Bennett, musical instrument repairman, holding a violin made in 1721 which belongs to Mrs. D.P. Wheeler and may be a Stradivarius. Behind him on an...
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Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy"

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Committee members creating the guest program for "A Combine of Comedy" produced by Phi Beta. Left to right: Mrs. Gordon (Eleanor) Rowley, 904 Oakland Avenu...
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Spring Fashions

Date: 02 21 1949
Description: Pattie Neilson, recent art school graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and a fashion illustrator and copy writer for a Madison women's specialty shop, ...
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YWCA World Fellowship Committee

Date: 09 12 1950
Description: Newcomers from other countries were special guests at a benefit garden tea, hosted by the World Fellowship Committee at the YWCA. Mrs. Tatiana Pronin, 292...
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Madison Theater Guild's Costume Designer Loie

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: Pictured is the Madison Theater's Guild's costume designer who uses only the name Loie.
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Memorial Union Open House

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: One of the activities during the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union open house student orientation was a tattoo contest. Paul Schnucker of Lancaster tr...
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Camp Maria Olbrich, YWCA Teen Camp

Date: 07 07 1954
Description: Two campers at Camp Maria Olbrich, a YWCA camp on the shore of Lake Mendota near Fox Bluff, sit on a log while making sketches. The girls are Susan Meyer (...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: Two young girls finger paint in the occupational therapy room at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center, 1552 University Avenue, for the intensive study of mental...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: John Worden and Ralph Denu recently formed an art studio bearing both of their names. Advertising agencies often use such an art studio.
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Thanksgiving Student Artists

Date: 11 20 1957
Description: Portrait of Randall Elementary School student Thomas Olson, age 9 years, who created a Thanksgiving drawing expressing his gratitude for living in such a b...

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