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Edna Ferber with Pearls

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls.
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Dorothy French

Date: 08 02 1948
Description: Mrs. Louis N. (Dorothy) French, new women's editor for the Wisconsin State Journal.
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Portrait of Barbara Muckler, "Wisconsin State Journal," Society Department, assistant editor.
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Miss Olive White

Date: 1949
Description: Miss Olive White of the Home Economics Department at International Harvester's Evansville Works. She is sitting at a desk, with a phone to her left ear. A ...
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Questions about Christmas Gifts

Date: 12 30 1953
Description: Helen Jansky, head of the circulation department at the Madison Free Library, displays a few of the books used to help library patrons use their Christmas ...
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Jayne Blodgett

Date: 1949
Description: "Jayne Blodgett - Conover Model." A photographer with a 4x5 press camera is shooting from the opposite direction.
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Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 20 1956
Description: Attending the annual Matrix Banquet are Helen Worden Erskine (left), guest speaker, and Jane Johannsen, president of the U.W. Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, t...
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Margaret Warner

Date: 04 07 2011
Description: Portrait of PBS NewsHour co-anchor Margaret Warner in her office.
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Annual Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 12 1957
Description: Attending the annual banquet for members of Matrix, an organization for women journalists, are Alice Kearby, Milwaukee, left, a Theta Sigma Phi journalism ...
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Eydie V. Watts

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Description: Photograph of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commssion. Ms. Watts sits at her desk in an office. She is wearing a dress or blou...
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Female Model with Camera

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Description: A female model poses with a camera in her lap while sitting in the grass. She is wearing a black bathing suit, a striped cape, and shoes with knee-high sto...
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Governor Warren Knowles and Georgia O'Keeffe

Date: 1966
Description: Governor Warren Knowles and Artist Georgia O'Keeffe at the presentation of the Wisconsin Governor's Award for Creativity in the Arts.
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Portrait of Vernon Thomson

Date: 04 13 1954
Description: Casual portrait of Vernon Thomson seated at his desk in the State Capitol. A map of Wisconsin is mounted on the wall behind his desk. Thomson served as the...
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Vel Phillips and Coretta Scott King

Date: 10 1969
Description: Vel Phillips sitting next to Coretta Scott King. Vel is wearing two button pins on her lapel. Coretta is holding in her lap the book "My Life with Martin L...
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Portrait of Brooks McCormick

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Description: Full-length portrait of Brooks McCormick sitting in a chair holding a gold pen in his right hand. On a table beside him is a red toy dump truck. A large ma...
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Portrait of Brooks McCormick

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Description: Portrait of Brooks McCormick sitting forward in a chair holding a gold pen in his hands. On the table in front of him is a red toy dump truck. A large map ...
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Portrait of Brooks McCormick

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Description: Portrait of Brooks McCormick sitting forward in a chair holding a gold pen in his hands. On the table in front of him is a red toy dump truck. A large map ...
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Dane County Library Service Bookmobile

Date: 08 16 1966
Description: Dane County Library Service Director, Donald Lamb and Bookmobile Librarian, Barbara Larson standing in front of the Dane County Library Service. The Bookmo...
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Dane County Library Service

Date: 08 16 1966
Description: Dane County Library Service Director, Donald Lamb and Librarian Barbara Larson standing outdoors in front of the Bookmobile parked at the Madison Public Li...

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