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Two Dolphin Club Girls

Date: 03 18 1931
Description: Two female Dolphin Club members in bathing suits take an acrobatic pose on the diving board of the Lathrop Hall pool.
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Alpha Phi Sorority Garden Tea

Date: 05 16 1948
Description: Alpha Phi sorority, 28 Langdon Street. was the site of a garden party for all sorority women on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Left to right: ...
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Studio Portrait of Ulysses White

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Description: Studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man, Ulysses White, posing standing and leaning on a prop stone column in front of a painted backdrop.
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Jaycette Fashion Show

Date: 02 26 1951
Description: Lillian Honeck models a stylish suit in the Jaycette fashion show.
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Jaycettes Style Show

Date: 03 04 1952
Description: Miss Patricia Johnson of 1 Langdon Street wearing shorts and a sleeveless blouse, and Mrs. Howard (Mary) Norris of 1406 Drake Street wearing shorts and a j...
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Portrait of Michael Stutzman

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Description: Civil War soldier Micheal Stutzman who served in the Wisconsin Infantry, 50th Company F.
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Mary and Herman Krueger

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Description: Full-length portrait of Mary Goetsch Krueger, at age 15, with her brother Herman.
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Charles Solar Olson

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Solar Olson, in uniform, and a woman. He was a private in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following...
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International Students Attend the University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 27 1954
Description: International students attend the University of Wisconsin. Pictured is Abed Jandali from Homs, Syria, the president of the International Club who is studyi...
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Woman with French Bulldog

Date: 1946
Description: A woman is standing on the front steps of a house with a french bulldog. The woman is dressed up in a fur coat, a fancy hat and high heels.
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Richard Ely and Henry Taylor

Date: 1919
Description: Richard T. Ely and Henry C. Taylor stand together on the front steps of Agriculture Hall at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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Senator George Norris

Date: 1917
Description: Senator George Willliam Norris posed at the base of a fluted column on the portico of the United States Capitol building. He holds a document in his right ...
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Complimentary Dinner to Hon. John D. Spooner

Date: 03 05 1891
Description: Front cover and inside of menu for a dinner honoring U.S. Senator John C. Spooner when he was Chairman of the Committee on Claims, with an oval photograph ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 187-191

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Description: First-rate minds to write books, guide the young and lead the nation
but the target runs close to the ground
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Charles E. Curver House

Date: 1933
Description: Two unidentified girls pose seated on a large stone in a rock garden on the lawn of the Charles E. Curver home. There are small clumps of flowers in bloom ...
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Two Young Women on a Front Porch

Date: 1919
Description: Two young women posing while leaning on the columns of a front porch.
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Sherwin and Emma Gillett at the Legion of Honor

Date: 1957
Description: Outdoor portrait of Sherwin and Emma Gillett standing between the columns at the Legion of Honor. Part of the marble arch is visible behind them.
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Jean Emily Dyer Reese

Date: 1944
Description: Outdoor full-length portrait of Jean Emily Dyer (Reese) in her prom dress with a corsage. She is posed on stone steps with the train of her gown spread out...
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Two Women Posed on a Porch

Date: 1905
Description: Mary E. Smith, right, and a friend seated on the railing of a neo-classical residential front porch. There is another porch in the background.
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Cap Pistol Legalization

Date: 07 03 1953
Description: After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th...

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