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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a taxidermy moose head set in cattails in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four men use a ladder to pose on top of each other. There is a painted backdrop behind them. They are wearing suit jackets, vests with watch fobs, and trou... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two smiling Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) women identified as Clara St. Cyr, a Nebraska Winnebago, lef... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two seated men with their legs crossed toward each other. One man has his arm over the chair back, and is sitting on the arm of the chai... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Interior portrait of a mother holding a child. On the wall behind them is a portrait of a child. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of three standing men, two wearing matching straw hats, and vests with trousers, and the other holding a camera on a stool. They are posing... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Earl Lester sitting on a wicker bench in front of a painted backdrop. He is wearing a shirt and bib overalls. |
| Date: | 05 07 1913 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and the woman... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an elderly couple for their 50th anniversary. The woman is sitting, and the man is standing. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Studio group portrait of a wedding party. The bride, groom and three attendants. The women are holding bouquets. In the background is a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Loan collection day at the Memorial Union. Paintings were loaned to students for exhibition. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A night session art class, for University of Wisconsin Extension Center in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Two women are assembling a large paper valentine decoration. One woman stands on a ladder in front of a fireplace working on the top of the decoration, whi... |
| Date: | 09 06 1968 |
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| Description: | View of the front wall left standing of the Trinity Lutheran Church. A man in the foreground us painting a portrait of the church. The artist is identified... |
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