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Mary Mathews Adams

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Description: Photograph of a framed painting of Mary Mathews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works i...
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Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Steven Riley, one of seven kindergarten students of the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "l...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Colleen Dunn, one of seven kindergarten members of the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "li...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Dennis Kennedy, one of seven kindergarten members of the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Kathleen McCue, one of seven kindergarten students at the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the ...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Dickie Manion, one of seven kindergarten members of the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "l...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Mary Jo Sweeney, one of seven kindergarten students at the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Peter McKenna, one of seven kindergarten students at the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "...
Photograph

Mary Mathews Adams

Date: 1896
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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Chippewas, Irish & Dutch

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of men, women, and children. Title reads: "A bunch of natives, head of Lake Superior, Chippewas, Irish & Dutch."
Photograph

Elevated View of Slabtown/Flora Fountain

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Slabtown/Flora Fountain. The church in the lower right was built by the Latter Day Saints and later moved to Lancaster.
Print

Ancient Order of Hibernians of Michigan Banquet Menu

Date: 08 21 1912
Description: Banquet menu for the Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Michigan. On the cover is a Celtic harp adorned with shamrocks, p...
Photograph

Portrait of Charles Donohue

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Description: Portrait of the Honorable Charles Donohue, Mayor of New Richmond, Wisconsin. Donohue was born December 5, 1843 in Goosebury Hill, Co. Cork in Ireland and d...
Poster

Poster for "The Shaughraun"

Date: 1875
Description: Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc...
Poster

Poster for "Mrs. Bridget O'Brien, esq"

Date: 1892
Description: Color lithograph poster. The caption running across the top is "Frank Sanger's Company supporting John F. Sheridan." The image shows Sheridan, cross-dresse...
Photograph

Irish Family Visits Mrs. Robert C. Grelle

Date: 07 28 1953
Description: Irish relatives and guest visiting Madison family. Standing left to right are: Miss Mona Salon, the Rev. James Mulvihill, the Rev. John J. Solon, and Mrs. ...
Photograph

Irish Kindergarteners at Edgewood School

Date: 02 27 1949
Description: Six Irish kindergarteners at Edgewood School. Individual photographs of Jimmy Farrell, Patricia Sweeney, Jean Shannon, Keith Lawler, Colleen McCormick, and...
Photograph

Wesley Barry and Kate Price in Scene Still

Date: 1918
Description: Mrs. Americus Jenkins (played by Kate Price) nurses her sick son (Wesley Barry) in a tenement set for the silent film "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley."
Photograph

Barbara Jefford and Milo O'Shea in Ulysses

Date: 1967
Description: Barbara Jefford, as Molly Bloom, and Milo O'Shea, as Leopold Bloom, in Joseph Strick's Ulysses (1967).
Map or Atlas

All Men Are Created Equal Map

Date: 06 29 1941
Description: A map showing the national roots of the people of Wisconsin, based on the ethnic stock research by University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Prof. George...

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