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| Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
| Date: | 09 14 1968 |
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| Description: | View through doorway of people relaxing at the Memorial Union in the Paul Bunyan room. |
| Date: | 01 14 1973 |
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| Description: | A folk art painting of a schoolhouse and an American flag, which was painted on boards temporarily covering a broken window at Wisconsin Hall at 126 Langdo... |
| Date: | 06 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Friede (?) sits in a chair while crocheting a doily. |
| Date: | 12 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Paul Meyer and children Freddy, Maria, and Elena, 2141 Keyes Avenue, filling a pinata for Maria's fouth birthday party and also Christmas. |
| Date: | 12 20 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. E.J. Dalrymple and children James, Karen, and Steven, 5006 Flambeau Road, with the family Nativity creche. Mrs. Dalrymple painted all of the figurines... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Celin Furu is shown in Norwegian costume displaying her rosemaled painted platters and sideboard cabinet. She was a wartime resident of Bergen, Norway... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Celin Furu is shown in Norwegian costume displaying her oil painting of Trolfjord, as well as Rosemaled furniture. She was a wartime resident of Berge... |
| Date: | 10 26 1953 |
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| Description: | A man holds a piece of driftwood thought to resemble the face of an angry monster. Shown from a different perspective, one can imagine the likeness of a de... |
| Date: | 10 26 1953 |
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| Description: | A man holds a piece of driftwood thought to resemble the head of a deer. Viewed from another perspective, the same piece looks like a monster. Both images ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1960 |
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| Description: | Walter Lofblad, a Cumberland farmer, with miniature Milwaukee Braves figures he carved from basswood. The carved set includes the entire starting lineup, m... |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | A large decoupage still life of a flower arrangement made from seed catalog illustrations is displayed on an easel. The artwork was created by Fern Fowler. |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Music cabinet with decoupage design by Fern Fowler. The cabinet was owned by Winfield & Irene Alexander; a violin is laying on top of the cabinet. |
| Date: | 04 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This photograph depicts the final step of pasting the design onto the tray with a small br... |
| Date: | 04 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This is one of two images of decoupage process steps. |
| Date: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Helen Burkhart holds a box on which she has appliqued gold paper and inlaid various colored stones. |
| Date: | 12 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Ritva Jantunen (standing right) of Helsinki, Findland displays a symmetrical "himmelis." In Finland, a "himmelis" would be made of straw and oats and place... |
| Date: | 01 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Erdine Stamm is shown rosemalling a wooden plate at the Madison Art Guild workshop in the recreation room of the Brobst home, 211 Lathrop Street. |
| Date: | 12 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Richard Marshall Jr. holds a cribbage board made from a walrus tusk, and has a pair of sealskin and fox fur moccasins his lap. Marshall served 18 months wi... |
| Date: | 02 22 2015 |
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| Description: | A painted, flat, yard sculpture of a blue heron sitting in the snow in the photographer's yard. A few dead plants are sticking up out of the snow. |
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