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Joe Fedele Receives Badge

Date: 10 17 1932
Description: Captain Leo Kinney, Captain of Detectives, pinning a detective's badge on Joe Fedele, member of Post's Junior Detective Club, an organization sponsored by ...
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Arthur MacArthur, Jr.

Date: 1865
Description: Studio portrait of young Lieutenant Colonel Arthur MacArthur Jr., F & S, 24th Wisconsin Infantry, posing in a Civil War uniform next to a chair.
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Video Portraits

Date: 04 02 1987
Description: Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
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Middleton High School Basketball Players

Date: 01 13 1931
Description: Middleton High School basketball players Thomas, in basketball uniform, and Amborn, wearing a suit, posing indoors.
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Portrait of Mr. Kimmel

Date: 12 10 1927
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Mr. Kimmel.
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Family in front of House

Date: 1869
Description: A family sits around a table in a yard. One woman holds a stereoscope in her lap. Behind them is a frame house with shutters on some of the windows, and a ...
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Carl and Roy Linnell

Date: 1895
Description: Two young men, Carl and Roy Linnell, standing on either side of a wooden chair supporting a mounted buck's head with antlers. They are wearing dark suit ja...
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Studio Portrait of Two Brothers

Date: 1894
Description: Studio portrait of two young brothers, standing side by side. The man on the right has his hand on his brother's shoulder. They are both are wearing hats a...
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Child Salon of Art Winner with John Steuart Curry

Date: 05 07 1944
Description: John Steuart Curry, University of Wisconsin Artist in Residence, and Wesley Kanuse with his painting of his brother, Kendall Kanuse. Kanuse won the major a...
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Stoughton Home Talent League Champions

Date: 11 01 1945
Description: Curtis Strand and Roundy Coughlin, the speaker at the banquet of the Stoughton Home Talent League champion baseball team.
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Young Man Sitting in Chair

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Description: Studio portrait of a seated young man wearing a striped shirt, suspenders, and trousers in front of a painted backdrop.
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Baseball Player with Bat

Date: 1913
Description: Man in a baseball uniform posing with a bat. The man may have been a member of an International Harvester company baseball team.
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Erik Nelson Basness

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Description: Head and shoulders oval studio portrait of Erik N. Basness [as written on published Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 [Vol. 1...
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Wisconsin Invitational Junior Tennis Tournament

Date: 07 22 1948
Description: Dick Norris, Milwaukee, semi-finalist in the Singles Division of the Wisconsin Invitational Junior Tennis Tournament.
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Senior Class Presidents of Edgewood and Wisconsin High Schools

Date: 09 29 1948
Description: Portrait of Bill Esser, at left, student at Edgewood High School, and Walter Meanwell, at right, student at Wisconsin High School. Both young men were elec...
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Studio Portrait of Charles Van Schaick and Son

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Description: A man stands and holds a small child in front of a painted backdrop on the gate of a prop fence. Identified as Charles Van Schaick and his son. He is weari...
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Portrait of Charles Van Schaick and Boy

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Description: A studio portrait of Charles Van Schaick, sitting on a stool in front of a painted backdrop, holding and hugging a small boy on his lap.
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Elderly Man with Young Girl

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Description: A studio portrait of an elderly man sitting with a small girl in front of a painted backdrop. The man is wearing a suit jacket, vest with watch fob, and tr...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 06 23 1949
Description: Cornelius "Connie" Ryan, Madison Soap Box Derby participant, receiving money from Jim Schmitz, a representative of Connie's sponsor, The Hub, 22 West Miffl...
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Group Portrait of Native Americans

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Description: A studio portrait of a group of Native Americans. A woman in a dress holds an infant in her lap, a man stands behind her, and two young men, one standing a...

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