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Artist Byron C. Jorns with Painting

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: Byron C. Jorns hanging a watercolor painting for an exhibit at the Madison Bank and Trust Company. A series of exhibitions was arranged by the bank to enco...
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Mrs. Celin Furu and Her Rosemaled Folkart

Date: 12 06 1948
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...
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Mrs. Celin Furu and Her Oil Painting

Date: 12 06 1948
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...
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Sun Prairie Artist Rachel Grimm

Date: 12 08 1948
Description: Rachel Grimm, retired school teacher, enters the annual state-wide rural art exhibit held annually in cooperation with the Farm and Home Week program spons...
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University of Wisconsin Beefeaters' Dinner

Date: 11 08 1948
Description: Dressed in Elizabethan costume during the University of Wisconsin Beefeaters' Dinner in Tripp Commons are Felice Michaels, Chicago, Chairman of the Union n...
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St. Mary's of the Lake Catholic Church

Date: 12 21 1948
Description: Interior view of St. Mary's of the Lake Catholic Church.
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John Steinhaus Children

Date: 12 24 1948
Description: John Steinhaus's children (a boy and a girl) sitting on Santa's lap.
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Carl A. Anderson House

Date: 02 04 1949
Description: View of the living room of the Carl A. Anderson home on East McKinley Street. A portrait of the Anderson's daughter, Mrs. Owen Klongland, hangs above the s...
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Longfellow School Third and Fourth Graders

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: Third and fourth graders from Longfellow school putting on a "quiz show" about electricity and lights that they have been studying. Joanne Tewalt (left) is...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Donald J. and Mary S. Reppen, 717 Knickerbocker Street, are shown admiring the famous painting of "Virgin and Child" by Peter Paul Rubens at the University...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: In front of Gainsborough's painting, "Miss Sparrow," are Professor and Mrs. Jack Klenitz, 208, Highland Avenue and, on the right, Professor Julian Harris, ...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Centennial Art Exhibit

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Studying an art catalog at the University of Wisconsin Centennial Art Exhibit at the Memorial Union, are Mrs. Alan Jones, Fort Atkinson, and Thomas R. Heft...
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Richard Johns of Janesville puts the finishing touches on a painting while seated in a wheelchair at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 We...
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Madison Art Guild's Annual Exhibition

Date: 04 03 1949
Description: Pictured admiring the water color "Landscape" by Mrs. M.J. (Genevieve) Cass, which was first place winner in water color class of the Madison Art Guild's a...
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WSJ Purchase Award Winner

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: "Robert Paterson, Oshkosh, won the Wisconsin State Journal's purchase award of $25 in the 21st annual U.W. student art show. Here he is with his wat...
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House Interior with Pictures and Beer Mugs

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: House interior showing a collection of pictures, beer mugs, and deer antlers.
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House Interior with Victorian Bedroom Decor

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: House interior with a Victorian bedroom decor. The room contains a rocking chair, a sleigh bed, and shelves holding decorative steins and other figurines. ...
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Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship Winners

Date: 07 14 1949
Description: Instructor Fritz Carpenter discusses Paul Hochstetter's colorful water color of a University of Wisconsin barn for the three winners of Madison Art Associa...
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Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship Winner

Date: 07 14 1949
Description: Madison Art Association Summer Scholarship winner Barbara Thaller receives guidance from instructor Fritz Carpenter.
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Historian Frederick Jackson Turner

Date: 08 01 1949
Description: A framed waist-up portrait of historian Frederick Jackson Turner painted by Charles Thwaites. It hangs in the gallery of the Pan-American Institute of Geog...

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