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Poster

Madison Tenant Union

Date: 1975
Description: Poster for the Madison Tenant Union, an organization created for tenants to improve housing conditions and offer guidance with tenant grievances against la...
Photograph

Our Lady of Wisdom Academy

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Description: A view toward the back wall of a classroom at Our Lady of Wisdom Academy. A large case containing taxidermied birds and mounted butterflies takes up most o...
Print

Whitney-Made Valentine With House

Date: 1920
Description: Valentine created using a "Whitney's Valentine Material" kit. The "folder" (card) has a house in the country surrounded by flowers. Over that paper lace is...
Photograph

Lesson on Flies in Classroom

Date: 1915
Description: A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou...
Photograph

Fly Trap

Date: 1924
Description: A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden.
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1973
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man sitting at a table (inscribed PAM) and playing cards with a salmon and a muskelunge (muskie). The muskelunge appea...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season (Unpublished)

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Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that collages several scenes: a cigar-smoking fisherman holding a broken rod; a young Nancy Ryan with one leg propped on a ...
Drawing

Drawing of Insect in Garden

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Description: Imaginative insect crouched in a fantastical garden among flowers and plants.
Historical Object

Stuart Fargo at Eighteen Months

Date: 1899
Description: A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le...
Photograph

Giant Fly Sharing Bowl with Toddler

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Description: Illustration of a toddler sitting near a window in a high chair eating from a bowl with a spoon. A giant fly is also eating from the bowl. Hand-tinted lant...

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