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| Date: | 06 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Pictured as he arrived in Madison is Trygve Lie, United Nations secretary-general. Mr. Lie was in Madison to receive an honorary degree from the University... |
| Date: | 08 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Baron Ludvig af Ugglas of Sweden in work clothes at the site of Madison's Veterans hospital where he has a summer job. He will be attending the U.W. Colleg... |
| Date: | 08 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of Baron Ludvig af Ugglas from Sweden, with his wife Christane, and their 15-week-old daughter, Catharina. |
| Date: | 06 29 1941 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Charter members of the Fremsyn Lodge No. 53 of the Daughters of Norway pose for a group portrait at the Edgewater Hotel during the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary... |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Some of the women who worked on the arrangements for the Daughters of Norway Fremsyn Lodge No. 53 Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Banquet pose for a group portrai... |
| Date: | 05 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Twenty-three men, participants at the Ygdrssil Literary Society's Syttende Mai golf tournament and dinner, posing between an American flag and a Norwegian ... |
| Date: | 11 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Seated at the speakers table are members of the Nansen Branch No. 43, of the Scandinavian American Fraternity. The banquet was held at the Park Hotel, 22 S... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Scene still of Gunnar Björnstrand, playing Fredrik Egerman, and Ulla Jacobsson, playing his young wife Anne in Ingmar Bergman's Sommarnattens leende (Sm... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Scene still of Victor Sjöström as the elderly Dr. Isak Borg in Ingmar Bergman's Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries, 1957). |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Ingrid Thulin as Ester, Gunnel Lindblom as Anna, and Birger Malmsten who plays a bartender in Ingmar Bergman's Tystnaden (The Silence, 1963). |
| Date: | 05 18 1951 |
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| Description: | Twelve Norwegion men observe the opening of Madison's observance of Syttende Mai, the Norwegion Independence Day, with a "golfspill" at the Nakoma Golf Clu... |
| Date: | 06 10 1951 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 03 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Twenty-two year-old Danish immigrant, Neils Lassen, right, uses a globe map to point out his native Denmark to Major Roberts of the Madison Army and Air Fo... |
| Date: | 05 30 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait outdoors of the members of the Lucius Fairchild Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. The man fourth from the left (with the light hat) wa... |
| Date: | 06 23 1962 |
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| Description: | Corner of room with a painting of Knute Reindahl, a violin, a candlestick and an ornate mirror, taken at Reindahl's home. |
| Date: | 09 07 1917 |
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| Description: | Reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at Camp Randall, members of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (the mostly Scandinavian unit commanded by Colo... |
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