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"Whistler's Mother"

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Description: A young man in the foreground is whistling at a woman walking by in the background. Includes the text: "Whistler's Mother." ------ A young man is raising...
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"How Madison Women Hold Their Likker"

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Description: Cartoon sketch of a man and woman at the bar. The man, leaning towards the woman, is smiling out of the corner of his mouth and holding a cocktail in a tum...
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50th Birthday Card

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Description: Black ink on yellow card stock birthday card. Illustration of a woman in heels and a long dress, short hair and glasses running down a steep and bumpy hil...
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Coffee Breakers

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Description: In pencil on white card, a cartoon of a woman, probably a secretary, seen from the back, wearing a dress and high heels, with a typewriter for a head, a pe...
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S-Shaped Chair

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Description: Drawing of a man and woman sitting in a tall S-shaped chair with only their legs and feet visible. On the left is a woman wearing a dress and holding a boo...
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Dress Design for "Anything Goes"

Date: 1956
Description: Costume design by Edith Head for the actress Jeanmaire (Zizi Jeanmaire) for the 1956 film "Anything Goes" with Bing Crosby. The dress is off-the-shoulder. ...
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Depictions of Algonquian Individuals

Date: 1616
Description: Illustration of four Algonquian Indians. E depicts a man dressed for combat in wood armor. F shows a woman in her regular dress carrying a child and an ear...
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6 Day Bike Race - 1878

Date: 1878
Description: Illustration of a crowd watching bicyclists on penny-farthings, who are racing around a track inside a tent. Below illustration is the text "From the Priva...
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Sketch for the film But Not for Me

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Description: Costume sketch, by Edith Head, for the 1959 film But Not for Me. The brown beaver suit coat and skirt was for the character "Ellie Brown" played by ...
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Pink and black costume sketch for Blue Hawaii

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Description: Costume sketch for "Maile Duval", played by Joan Blackman, in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii. The sketch is for a pink dress with black polka dots. A p...
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Anything Goes costume sketch

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Description: Costume sketch for "Patsy Blair", played by Mitzi Gaynor, in the 1956 film Anything Goes. The dress is peach colored and form fitting with a mermai...

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