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Edna Ferber with Pearls

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls.
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Daisy Bates

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Description: Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957.
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Democrats for Goldwater

Date: 10 28 1964
Description: Women representatives of Democrats for Goldwater from Central Wisconsin rally to support their candidate.
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Vinnie Ream Hoxie

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Description: Painting of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Wisconsin sculptor.
Drawing

"To Catch a Thief" 19

Date: 1954
Description: Costume sketch of a dark blue, plumed headress and jewelry created for Jess Royce Landis in "To Catch a Thief".
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Child with Injured Foot

Date: 08 1957
Description: A young Algerian girl has her foot treated by a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker in a tent. The man is wrapping the girl's foot in bandages. She ...
Photograph

Mrs. Roseline Peck

Date: 1874
Description: Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E...
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Edna Ferber, Writing

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Description: Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen.
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Irene Castle

Date: 1915
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Irene Castle.
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Publicity Portrait of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1906
Description: An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt posed in the "Egyptian" style. She wears an intricate dress decorated with metallic ribbons and a...
Painting

Yellowstone Church

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Description: A depiction of the Yellowstone Church of rural Lafayette County, just a few miles from the Kammerude farm. The church is built from locally quarried limest...
Drawing

Edith Head Costume Design for "Pocketful of Miracles"

Date: 1961
Description: Costume design for "#8 Queenie rehearsal," from the 1961 film "Pocketful of Miracles," starring Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, and Hope Lange.
Drawing

Edith Head Costume Design for "Who's Got the Action"

Date: 1962
Description: Costume design for "Who's Got the Action," the 1962 film starring Dean Martin, Lana Turner, and Eddie Albert. The dress, worn by Lana Turner, has a black ...
Photograph

Mr. & Mrs. Houdini

Date: 1926
Description: Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis.
Drawing

Costume Design for "Pocket Full of Miracles"

Date: 1961
Description: An Edith Head costume design for a red lame' open-back gown for the character Queenie (Hope Lange) in "Pocket Full of Miracles". This image includes a fabr...
Photograph

Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
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Pacific Athletic Club Director

Date: 1945
Description: Leota Kelly, director of the Red Cross's Pacific Athletic Club, posing for a picture by the shore in Tinian at the site of the new Red Cross Club. Kelly is...
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Panamanian Children with American Woman

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian children talking to an American woman near the Chucunaque River in Panama. The American woman is wearing a safari hat and jumpsuit an...
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Algerian Women in Tent

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian women receiving treatment in a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) tent. One woman is nursing a baby. Another woman is standing while examining an...
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Algerian Red Crescent Worker

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker is examining a woman's face in a tent as another Algerian woman and her child are looking on.

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