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| Date: | 03 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish poet and author of fairy tales. Inscription at bottom of card reads, "H... |
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| Description: | August Derleth posed with part of his comic collection. The image is from a tinted photograph by Carmie Thompson. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin writer August Derleth and his jazz collection. |
| Date: | 12 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Jerry C. McNeely, associate professor of speech at the University of Wisconsin, has had two major television plays produced, one on "Studio One" and the ot... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children. |
| Date: | 12 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Kristin (Kritz) Meudt. She was the President of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS). She is we... |
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| Description: | Louise Leighton poses sitting at her typewriter. She is wearing a dress, necklace, ring and an embroidered handkerchief in her pocket. The typewriter sits ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | R. Bruce Allison, left, and B. Wolfgang Hoffman posing in front of the massive trunk of a tree. Allison, an arborist, is the author, and Hoffmann the photo... |
| Date: | 04 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Visiting in the atrium of University of Wisconsin Union Theater prior to the performance of the musical comedy, "Wait and See," are (left to right): Dave W... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Vignetted waist-up portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works incl... |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whos... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of actress and author Gladys Drew. She wears a dark hat with a plume on top which is tied underneath her chin. Gladys was the first wife of... |
| Date: | 09 1921 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Effie Alger Allen, a Medford resident and author of the poems "The Phantom Steamer" and "The First Red Man" (Poetry: A Magazi... |
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