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Barman — Bob

Date: 1932
Description: Bob bartending at the Press Grill.
Drawing

Barman — Eddie

Date: 1932
Description: Eddie bartending at The Little Maison Doree.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Print

Face Dyspepsia Food Advertisement

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Description: Advertisement for Harriet Meta's Face Dyspepsia Food which promised to make your face "round and plump" and to enlarge the bust and to make a "thin scrawny...
Photograph

People's Poster Collector

Date: 10 23 1973
Description: J. Wesley Miller posing with some of the campus street posters and handouts he collected. Mayor Soglin, Toby Emmer, Richard Nixon, Melvin Laird and Angela ...
Photograph

Arlene Elmer

Date: 1935
Description: Arlene Annette Elmer, 14, poses with three of her drawings alongside the Farmer's Grove School. Her teacher wrote on the reverse of this photograph that sh...
Photograph

Joseph Rolette

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Description: A quarter-length portrait drawing of Joseph Rolette wearing a suit coat and necktie.
Photograph

Irna Phillips Designing a Floor Plan

Date: 1949
Description: Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children.
Photograph

Portrait of Edgar Allen Poe

Date: 1893
Description: Cabinet card of a pastel drawing, formal portrait, waist-up, of Edgar Allen Poe. The drawing was created by Oscar Halling, a little known Baltimore artist ...
Drawing

Three Naked Women with Grapes and Champagne Glass

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Description: Black-ink drawing of a bacchanalian scene with three naked women amidst three grape bunches. One is holding the stem of a champagne glass that is emitting ...
Photograph

"My Pretty Jane"

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of drawing of a young woman, after British artist James Fisher. Quarter-length portrait. She is facing slightly to the right, with fl...
Photograph

"The Flower of Dunblane"

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of drawing of a young woman, after British artist James Fisher. Quarter-length portrait, showing left profile, with flowing shoulder ...
Photograph

Drawing Class Taught by Television

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Description: View from back of classroom towards a group of students sitting in desks watching a television and drawing.

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