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Valda Valkyrien

Date: 1916
Description: Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark."
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Woman Playing Monochord

Date: 1941
Description: Woman in Norwegian dress playing the monochord.
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Woman Playing Monochord

Date: 1941
Description: Woman in Norwegian dress playing the monochord.
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Rosemaling a Smorgasbord Platter

Date: 1941
Description: Mr. Per Lysne rosemaling a smorgasbord platter.
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Rosemaled Chests

Date: 1941
Description: Mr. Per Lysne admiring rosemaled chests.
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Joyce Elmer with Norwegian Chest

Date: 10 23 1944
Description: Joyce Elmer, Memorial Union gallery committee chairman, inspecting an antique Norwegian chest as part of an exhibit of Elaine Smedal's "Norwegian Wisconsin...
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Norwegian Dress and Hat

Date: 10 23 1944
Description: Norwegian dress and hat displayed as part of an exhibit of Elaine Smedal's "Norwegian Wisconsin as a Source of Design." Elaine Smedal arranged the exhibit ...
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Rosemaling Decoration on Tea Set and Plates

Date: 10 23 1944
Description: Rosemaling featured on a display of a teaset and serving plates as part of an exhibit of Elaine Smedal's "Norwegian Wisconsin as a Source of Design." Elain...
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Civil War Regiment

Date: 1862
Description: Birds-eye view of a Wisconsin Civil War regiment on parade in Fond du Lac, as drawn by Louis Kurz from the Marr Street Methodist Church. The regiment canno...
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Marquette School Pageant

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Six students from Marquette School representing early Wisconsin settlers in Norwegian ethnic costumes performing in the school pageant celebrating Wisconsi...
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Mrs. Robert (Dorothy L.) Sirney

Date: 10 13 1948
Description: Mrs. Robert (Dorothy L.) Sirney, standing in front of a curtain and wearing a Norwegian costume. She is holding a wooden platter she has decorated with ros...
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Mrs. Celin Furu and Her Rosemaled Folkart

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Mrs. Celin Furu is shown in Norwegian costume displaying her rosemaled painted platters and sideboard cabinet. She was a wartime resident of Bergen, Norway...
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The Eken Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Eken family.
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Valda Valkyrien in a Scene Still

Date: 1917
Description: Valda Valkyrien wears a flowing white robe, probably in the role of Ashubetis on the Jacksonville, Florida, set of the 1917 Thanhouser production The Im...
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Valda Valkyrien, publicity still with shark

Date: 1917
Description: Valda Valkyrien wears a very smart vertically striped dress under a dark double-breasted jacket. Apparently she has just caught a shark on a Florida beach....
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Valda Valkyrien and Frederick Warde

Date: 1916
Description: A scene still of Valda Valkyrien playing a young girl, possibly in the 1916 Thanhouser production of Silas Marner. If that is correct, the older act...
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Gunnar Björnstrand and Ulla Jacobsson in Sommarnattens leende (Smiles of a Summer Night)

Date: 1955
Description: Scene still of Gunnar Björnstrand, playing Fredrik Egerman, and Ulla Jacobsson, playing his young wife Anne in Ingmar Bergman's Sommarnattens leende (Sm...
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Victor Sjöström in Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)

Date: 1957
Description: Scene still of Victor Sjöström as the elderly Dr. Isak Borg in Ingmar Bergman's Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries, 1957).
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Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, and Birger Malmsten in Tystnaden (The Silence)

Date: 1963
Description: Ingrid Thulin as Ester, Gunnel Lindblom as Anna, and Birger Malmsten who plays a bartender in Ingmar Bergman's Tystnaden (The Silence, 1963).
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St. Paul's Liberty Lutheran Church

Date: 06 10 1951
Description: Members of the Ladies' Aid Society display a plate bearing a hand-painted image of St. Paul's Liberty Lutheran Church, Deerfield. The plate was painted by ...

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