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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 01 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait painting of Kit Carson, a famous trapper and guide of the west. The painting is leaning on a wall, with part of another painting on the right. Par... |
| Date: | 01 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Helen Keller, age 67, taken during her visit to Madison on a speaking tour. |
| Date: | 10 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Charles Goren, nationally known bridge expert, attended one of the topnotch bridge clubs in Madison at the home of Mrs. John Guy (Agatha) Fowlkes. From lef... |
| Date: | 12 23 1948 |
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| Description: | "Roundy" with four men from Wisconsin Dells holding milk bottles full of donated money they collected for "Roundys" Fun Fund. Left to right are "Roundy" C... |
| Date: | 04 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Miss America of 1948, BeBe Shopp, second from left, rides in the back seat of a convertible with Jaenne Faber, Suzaanne Wheeler, and Anne Barber. BeBe Shop... |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India decending the stairs from an airplane at Truax Field. Nehru came to Madison to speak at the University of W... |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India speaking to a crowd gathered at the U.W. Union Terrace from a Union Theater outdoor balcony. |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Indira Gandhi, daughter of Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India, speaking with University of Wisconsin President E.B. Fred inside Memorial Union... |
| Date: | 11 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd of people gathered on the University of Wisconsin Union Terrace to listen to a speech by Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Ne... |
| Date: | 01 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Entertainer and pianist Hildegarde, born Hildegarde Loretta Sell, is shown in fur coat with Governor Oscar Rennebohm. She is a Wisconsin native born in Ade... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman visited Madison to be present at the laying of the cornerstone for the CUNA's Filene House, 1617 Sherman Avenue. He is pictured ... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman is shown speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. He was in Madison to be present at the laying of the corner... |
| Date: | 07 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Mildred Rand is crowned "East Side Merchandise Queen" by City Councilman Herbert C. Schenk at the annual festival of the East Side Business Men's Associati... |
| Date: | 12 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Shown from left to right are Vincent Peterson using crutches, the Reverend Jerome Mersberger, pastor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, and Mickey Hal... |
| Date: | 01 24 1951 |
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| Description: | The members of the U.W. football coaching staff are shown meeting with Jack Dempsey, former world's heavyweight boxing champion during a dinner at the Park... |
| Date: | 01 24 1951 |
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| Description: | Three smiling men are posing in a pretend boxing stance at the Park Hotel. On the right is former world heavy weight boxing champion, Jack Dempsey. On the ... |
| Date: | 06 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Three Bickel brothers are shown with classmate Norman Bassett at an Alpha Delta Phi fraternity reunion. Left to right are: John Bickel, Norman Bassett, Fre... |
| Date: | 06 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Charlie ("Jolly Cholly") Grimm, manager of the Milwaukee Braves, is shown second from left autographing a baseball before the Rotary luncheon at the Lorain... |
| Date: | 07 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Ellen Jenks, the new Alice in Dairyland welcoming Elsie, the famed Borden Company cow to Madison. Elsie is wearing a heavily decorated lea... |
| Date: | 08 10 1953 |
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| Description: | Sam Liberace and his wife, Zona, with their French horn and cello in their home at 2638 East Dayton Street. Sam and his former wife, Frances, are the paren... |
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