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Barbara's Chrysalis and Pottery Bowl

Date: 07 17 2015
Description: View of a blue ceramic bowl sitting on an ornately decorated cloth. Behind it is a poster or page from a book with two photographs of a monarch butterfly e...
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Green Man on the Living Room Wall

Date: 07 20 2015
Description: Ceramic mask of the Green Man hanging on a white stucco wall.
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Shopkeeper

Date: 1920
Description: A smiling shopkeeper in traditional dress showing a ceramic cat to Leonore Middleton. There are shelves behind Leonore which are crowded with figurines.
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In the Shop

Date: 1925
Description: Leonore Middleton, left, is holding a bowl, with an unidentified woman watching on the right. They are standing in front of a table which is holding other...
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Yokohama Apartment

Date: 1922
Description: A view of an interior corner of the house occupied by Forest and Leonore Middleton. There are light draperies and a shade over a large window. A bouquet of...
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A Friendly Game

Date: 09 1921
Description: Leonore and Forest Middleton, on the far left, playing cards with two other women and a man while sitting at a small table. The man on the far right has th...
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Pottery Shop

Date: 1920
Description: A shopkeeper is using a feather duster to clean stacks of bowls displayed on a low table in the open air. Teapots in an array of shapes and finishes are su...
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Throwing on a Potter's Wheel

Date: 1967
Description: A small audience of children and adults are watching a ceramicist working on a potter's wheel. He is shaping the rim of a vase as while it is spinning on t...
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Potter at Work

Date: 1967
Description: A small audience of children and adults are watching a ceramicist throwing a vase on a pottery wheel. Pottery is sitting on shelving on the left.
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Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Gloria Johnson, Bonnie Kinne, Marie Sachtjen, and Irene Ellestad glazing figures for the kiln at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street.
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Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Leonard Ahlen putting glaze-dipped dragon figures into the kiln at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street.
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Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Women applying the finishing touches on an assortment of ceramic figures at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street.
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Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Paul Byrge making molds for ceramic figures at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street.
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Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Esther Mathison, Ann Jenson, Genevieve Hendrickson, Grace Wiessinger, Helen Boylan, and May Baer pouring workable clay into molds for a new series of ceram...
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Aaron Bohrod, U.W. Artist-in-Residence

Date: 04 1955
Description: University of Wisconsin artist-in-residence, Aaron Bohrod, displaying a ceramic urn he recently completed in his campus studio. Bohrod started the position...
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Living Room

Date: 1890
Description: A view of the southwest corner of the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and Wells Streets. An ornate Victorian etagere stands b...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1890
Description: An assortment of Christmas gifts are arranged around the base of a Christmas tree in the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and ...
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Parlor

Date: 1893
Description: A view of the parlor (foreground) and music room of the George Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. Both room...
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American Indian Pottery Exhibit

Date: 
Description: The W.A. Titus collection of American Indian Pottery exhibited at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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Prehistoric Pottery

Date: 1945
Description: A display of prehistoric pottery exhibited at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

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