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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 01 1901
Description: Lithograph cover illustration in a mosaic styled design for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog of a woman holding a miniature McCormick grain...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph with a mosaic of a woman w...
Photograph

Saint Raphael Cathedral — New Altar

Date: 02 27 1955
Description: Interior of Saint Raphael Cathedral, 216 West Main Street, showing the new altar.
Photograph

"Legislation" Pendentive

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Description: "Legislation" pendentive, one of four panels of glass mosaic by Kenyon Cox, in the Wisconsin State Capitol. The artist sought the decorative properties of ...
Photograph

"Justice" Pendentive

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Description: "Justice" pendentive, one of four panels of glass mosaic by Kenyon Cox, in the Wisconsin State Capitol. The artist sought the decorative properties of the ...
Photograph

"Liberty" Pendentive

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Description: "Liberty" pendentive, one of four panels of glass mosaic by Kenyon Cox, in the Wisconsin State Capitol. The artist sought the decorative properties of the ...
Photograph

"Government" Pendentive

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Description: "Government" pendentive, one of four panels of glass mosaic by Kenyon Cox, in the Wisconsin State Capitol. The artist sought the decorative properties of t...
Photograph

Interior View of Dome

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Description: Interior view of dome with four pendentives, arches, and the painting, "Resources of Wisconsin," in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Christmas Tree and Exhibit at the State Historical Society

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Description: Christmas tree and costume exhibit in the first floor lobby of the State Historical Society building. The view, based on identification in the floor mosai...
Photograph

Rural Art Exhibit at State Historical Society Building

Date: 1945
Description: Exhibit of contemporary rural art on display in the first floor hallway of the State Historical Society building. The view is looking north toward the eas...
Photograph

Art Exhibit at State Historical Society

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Description: Art exhibit on the first floor of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Building.
Photograph

Lawn Decoration

Date: 05 27 1961
Description: A mosaic lawn decoration made of various objects set in cement. The decoration is approximately thirty inches in diameter and revolves on a post.
Photograph

Rath Church Decorating Service

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: Portrait of Clemens Rath, head of Rath Church Decorating Service, 3331 University Avenue, standing beside a glass mosaic window made by the firm for St. Pa...
Photograph

Rath Church Decorating Service

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: View of one of the 14 stations-of-the-cross glass mosaic panels recently installed at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Janesville. In this panel, Christ is...
Photograph

Lawn Decoration

Date: 1961
Description: Homemade decorative star wheel set curbside. The object consists of an assortment of pottery sherds and other discarded bits set in cement within a circula...
Photograph

Mosaic at St. Francis Episcopal Chapel

Date: 03 03 1965
Description: The Rev. Paul Abel is standing beneath a mosaic of the Seraphic Cross of St. Francis at the new St. Francis Chapel at the University Episcopal Center, 1001...
Photograph

Mosaic at Holy Name Seminary Installed

Date: 04 16 1965
Description: A mosaic designed by Felix G. Senger measuring 24 by 30 feet and composed of 360,000 pieces of mosaic was installed in the new chapel of Holy Name Seminary...
Painting

Drawing of Goose

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Description: Multi-colored pointillist watercolor of a goose in flight on a golden background of bright oranges and yellows. Text in ink and graphite indicate that Sid ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Historical Society Floor Mosaic

Date: 1899
Description: Mosaic in the central lobby floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society, near the statue "Forward." This is the printer's mark of the Riverside Press. It was...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Historical Society Floor Mosaic

Date: 1899
Description: Mosaic in the central lobby floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society. This is the printer's mark of one the earliest English printers, William Caxton. He ...

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