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Throwing on a Potter's Wheel

Date: 1967
Description: A small audience of children and adults are watching a ceramicist working on a potter's wheel. He is shaping the rim of a vase as while it is spinning on t...
Photograph

Potter at Work

Date: 1967
Description: A small audience of children and adults are watching a ceramicist throwing a vase on a pottery wheel. Pottery is sitting on shelving on the left.
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Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Gloria Johnson, Bonnie Kinne, Marie Sachtjen, and Irene Ellestad glazing figures for the kiln at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street.
Photograph

Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Leonard Ahlen putting glaze-dipped dragon figures into the kiln at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street.
Photograph

Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Women applying the finishing touches on an assortment of ceramic figures at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street.
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Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Paul Byrge making molds for ceramic figures at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street.
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Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Esther Mathison, Ann Jenson, Genevieve Hendrickson, Grace Wiessinger, Helen Boylan, and May Baer pouring workable clay into molds for a new series of ceram...
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Aaron Bohrod, U.W. Artist-in-Residence

Date: 04 1955
Description: University of Wisconsin artist-in-residence, Aaron Bohrod, displaying a ceramic urn he recently completed in his campus studio. Bohrod started the position...
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Living Room

Date: 1890
Description: A view of the southwest corner of the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and Wells Streets. An ornate Victorian etagere stands b...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1890
Description: An assortment of Christmas gifts are arranged around the base of a Christmas tree in the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and ...
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Parlor

Date: 1893
Description: A view of the parlor (foreground) and music room of the George Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. Both room...
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American Indian Pottery Exhibit

Date: 
Description: The W.A. Titus collection of American Indian Pottery exhibited at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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Prehistoric Pottery

Date: 1945
Description: A display of prehistoric pottery exhibited at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Poster

New Mexico and Arizona Rockies

Date: 1925
Description: An original lithograph of a woman buying a necklace from a Native American man. Horseback riders are in the distance. Text at bottom reads: "Land of Histor...
Photograph

Artist Aaron Bohrod Shows Off New Studio

Date: 07 08 1960
Description: University of Wisconsin Artist-in-Residence Aaron Bohrod shows his new studio at his English Tudor style home at 4811 Tonyawatha Trail overlooking Lake Mon...
Photograph

Pottery Class

Date: 1970
Description: A woman is throwing a pot on the wheel in a pottery class.
Historical Object

Stoneware Punch Bowl

Date: 
Description: Stoneware bowl with a clear glaze on gray clay. Exterior has raised grape clusters in blue and painted blue underglaze. Interior surface has hand-painted b...
Historical Object

Stoneware Vase

Date: 1893
Description: Stoneware vase is ovoid-shaped with a flared rim. It is gray with a salt-glaze. The dark brown on the lower body and the top of the neck may be caused by a...
Photograph

Two Rivers Potsherd

Date: 1949
Description: A broken piece of ceramic. Caption reads: "Potsherd from Two Rivers village site. H. P. Hamilton Collection. State Hist. Museum Object."
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Point Sable Potsherd

Date: 1949
Description: Close-up view of patterns in a broken piece of pottery. Caption reads: "Interior of potsherd from Point Sable, Town of Scott, Brown Co., Wis. State Hist. M...

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