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Governor La Follette Accepting Haresfoot Tickets

Date: 04 21 1931
Description: William H. (Bill) Purnell and R.R. (Doc) Miller present Governor Philip La Follette with tickets to see the 33rd annual Haresfoot Club show "It's a Gay Lif...
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Robert B.L. Murphy

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Robert B.L. Murphy. Robert Brady Lawrence Murphy was born on December 5, 1901 at 711 Langdon Street in Madison, Wisconsin. H...
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Art for Bonds Exhibit at Memorial Union

Date: 06 11 1944
Description: Nine people posed in front of "Our Good Earth" by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. Private Hen...
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Art for Bonds Exhibit at Memorial Union

Date: 06 11 1944
Description: Mrs. Walter Goodland (wife of Governor Goodland), and John Steuart Curry standing in front of "Our Good Earth," by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union e...
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Professor Roland S. Stebbins with Painting

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Portrait of University of Wisconsin Art Education professor Roland S. Stebbins with one of his paintings, which he donated to the Madison Art Association f...
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Night Session Art Class

Date: 1949
Description: A night session art class, for University of Wisconsin Extension Center in Milwaukee.
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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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Portrait of A.J. Glover

Date: 02 01 1950
Description: A portrait of A.J. Glover, a pioneer Wisconsin dairy leader, was presented to the University of Wisconsin college of agriculture. His son, W.H. Glover, is ...
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Madison Artists' Exhibition Winners

Date: 02 12 1950
Description: Richard Grossenbach, University of Wisconsin senior student from Madison, and Professors Robert Grilley and Roland Stebbins, University of Wisconsin, were ...
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Madison Artists' Show Winner Santos Zingale and His Winning Painting

Date: 02 18 1951
Description: Santos Zingale of the University of Wisconsin art department faculty stands beside his painting, "Variations on a Theme", which won the $100 Award of Excel...
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John Stuart Curry's Painting "The Good Earth"

Date: 12 19 1951
Description: Dean R.K. Froker of the University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture stands beside the late John Stuart Curry's painting "The Good Earth". The painting h...
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Richard Ely Portrait

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Description: A reproduction of a painted portrait of Richard T. Ely, Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Farm Short Course Reunion

Date: 01 27 1960
Description: The Farm Short Course is a 74-year-old institution at the University of Wisconsin which has enrolled 12,414 students over the years. Attending the reunion ...
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John L. Gillin

Date: 05 28 1942
Description: Caption reads: "Photograph of oil portrait of Prof. John L. Gillin painted by Christian Abrahamsen. Unveiled at Gillin farewell dinner at the Memorial Unio...

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