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| Date: | 03 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Sandy Rasmussen discusses her first-prize winning painting in the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders with Ruth Allcott, art director of ... |
| Date: | 03 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two prize winners in the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders. Mary Jo Ylitalo (left) won second prize, and Sarah Christenson ... |
| Date: | 03 24 1954 |
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| Description: | The four finalists, one of whom will represent Madison in the district division of the Helen Farnsworth Mears Art Contest sponsored by the Wisconsin Federa... |
| Date: | 03 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Randy Olson holds his fourth-prize winning landscape painting at the Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest for eighth graders. Admiring the painting are three... |
| Date: | 03 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five Madison public school students, winners of the 1957 Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. Left to right: Dave Olson, East High; Allen ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The sculpture, "Genius of Wisconsin" by Helen Farnsworth Mears, displayed in the rotunda of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. On the right is a display ca... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Memorial fountain in a sylvan setting. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | An informal head and shoulders portrait of Helen Farnsworth Mears (1872-1916), left, and her sisters Louise Morilla Mears Fargo (1866-1925), center, and Ma... |
| Date: | 03 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the winners of the annual Madison Woman's club Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. Pictured left to right: Margaret N. Evans, 2317 Sommer... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group portrait, with Stuart, center, and Frank B. Fargo Jr. posing with their "Aunt Nellie," Helen Farnsworth Mears. The boys are wearing jackets and neckt... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Helen Farnsworth Mears posing with her nephews Stuart Fargo, center, and Frank Fargo Jr. They are reading a book together. Mears is weari... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | 8th-Grade winners of the 1958 Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. The contest started in 1927 to honor the memory of the Oshkosh-born sculptor to encourag... |
| Date: | 03 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Helen Farnsworth Mears art awards winners, sponsored by the Woman's Club of Madison. Clockwise from the left are: Mary Paulsen, Ralph Holde... |
| Date: | 03 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Contest judge Mrs. Daisy Breyer (left) and Central High school art teacher Mrs. Merrie Wisiol (right) admire the painting of Beverly Fries, a fifth-place w... |
| Date: | 03 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Five of the six winners in the Madison Helen Farnsworth Mears art contest. In front is the first-place winner, John Woolsey. In back, left to right, are: M... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Five people posing in an automobile parked in front of a large frame house. The house is identified as the birthplace of Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears (1830-1... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from street of a two-story wood frame house, with open front porch shaded by trees. There is a plank sidewalk in front and a curved plank walk leading... |
| Date: | 02 1904 |
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| Description: | A close-up of the damage caused to the third Wisconsin State Capitol by the fire of February 26-27, showing the first floor, and looking west through the R... |
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