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| Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
| Date: | 09 14 1968 |
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| Description: | View through doorway of people relaxing at the Memorial Union in the Paul Bunyan room. |
| Date: | 06 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Friede (?) sits in a chair while crocheting a doily. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woman in Norwegian dress playing the monochord. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Mr. Per Lysne rosemaling a smorgasbord platter. |
| Date: | 10 23 1944 |
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| 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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| Description: | Photograph of fish altered to create an imaginary new species of fish, the Owl-eyed Ripple Skipper. Its apparent features include short fangs, a rounded b... |
| Date: | 10 13 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Celin Furu is shown in Norwegian costume displaying her oil painting of Trolfjord, as well as Rosemaled furniture. She was a wartime resident of Berge... |
| Date: | 02 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Seven examples of plaster models of animals made by marine recruiting officer Lewis McKerley of Florence County on display at the governor's residence. He ... |
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| Description: | Detail of a statue of a man at Fred Smith's Concrete Park. |
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| Description: | View of several sculptures, including depictions of people, angels, and various animals in Fred Smith's Concrete Park. |
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| Description: | View of several sculptures in Fred Smith's Concrete Park. |
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| Description: | Sculpture of a moose at Fred Smith's Concrete Park. |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Gladys Dieruf, UW Extension librarian, looks at one of the arts and crafts reproductions collected by the University of Wisconsin Extension Bureau of Infor... |
| 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A Scandinavian chest with old script and rosemaling. The metal fittings are handmade. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Two Scandinavian chests with handmade metal fittings and decorative rosemaling. The chest on the right is dated 1831. |
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