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| Date: | 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 07 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Unidentified woman sitting at a drawing board, possibly Miss or Mrs. Younger. |
| Date: | 06 08 1945 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 08 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Sketch of Hankscraft baby bottle warmer. |
| Date: | 02 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" drawing, which received the Joseph R. Rothchild prize of $25 in graphics at the Madison Artists exhibition. |
| Date: | 02 05 1947 |
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| 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" ... |
| Date: | 02 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Cartoonist Ken Ernst sketching Badger Beauty Ruth Schmitt whom he selected to represent a new character in his comic strip "Mary Worth". |
| Date: | 04 28 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 20 1943 |
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| Description: | Xerox of birthday card made for Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) by members of the Dutch Underground. |
| Date: | 01 30 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 07 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 21 1949 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 03 10 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of men working at tables in the Drafting Department at International Harvester's Tractor Works. An American flag is hanging from the high ceiling i... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | International diesel engine diagram. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view illustration from rear of the left side of a truck, with a gun mount on top of the cab. A shovel and pick are mounted on the side of the... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view illustration of the front left side of a truck, which has a gun mount on top of the cab. A shovel and pick are mounted on the side of th... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children. |
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