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Turkish Reservist Writing a Letter Home

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Description: Turkish Landsturmann (reservist), holding a note in his hands, writing a letter home.
Manuscript

W.D. Bartlett Letter

Date: 06 28 1863
Description: A letter written by W.D. Bartlett to his cousin describing life as a Civil War soldier.
Photograph

"What You Want"

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Description: A man is standing and writing a letter to a senator, with a similar, enlarged letter behind him. The body of this larger letter reads: "I will appreciate i...
Poster

Comment ils écrivent L'Histoire

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting three soldiers resting on a battlefield. One soldier is smoking a pipe, one soldier is writing a letter, and the third soldier is looking ...
Photograph

Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy

Date: 09 26 1935
Description: Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are...
Document

Letter to Albert Maltz from Frank Sinatra

Date: 08 31 1945
Description: Letter to Albert Maltz from Frank Sinatra dated August 31, 1945. Sinatra is telling Maltz how moved he was after seeing the film "The Pride of the Marines...
Document

Letter to Harry Tugend from Dalton Trumbo

Date: 02 02 1948
Description: Letter to Harry Tugend from Dalton Trumbo dated February 2, 1948. Trumbo is explaining to Tugend that because he has been blacklisted he does not have the ...
Manuscript

Letter to George Seaton from Milton Pickman

Date: 11 22 1968
Description: Letter dated November 22, 1968 from Milton Pickman to George Seaton. Pickman is trying to convince Seaton to cast his client Rita Hayworth in the role of I...
Photograph

Irna Phillips Dictacting to Her Secretary

Date: 10 1940
Description: Irna Phillips sits at her desk dictating a letter to her secretary.
Photograph

Visiting Nurse Service Friendly Visitor Program

Date: 02 09 1961
Description: Barbara Bruemmer (left) writing a letter for Mrs. Floyd L. Dudley, who is a patient of the Visiting Nurse Service. Barbara is a volunteer "friendly visitor...
Photograph

Two Ho-Chunk Men Seated at a Table

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on a prop fence on the left writing a letter on a small table with his right...
Photograph

Ladies Of The Press Breakfast

Date: 04 25 1954
Description: Madison women interested in writing get together to talk over their work at the Ladies of the Press Breakfast. Left to right are Mrs. Frank (Gladys) Dean,...
Drawing

Drawing on a Letter to William Proxmire

Date: 03 06 1962
Description: A pencil drawing of a man holding his hands over his ears, standing next to his bed as though he's just leapt out of it. His expression is similar to that ...
Photograph

Hazel Murphy Sullivan

Date: 04 27 1952
Description: Hazel Murphy Sullivan (left), editor of the Sun Prairie Star-Countryman and Wisconsin State Journal correspondent, holds the Writer's cup she...
Photograph

Voting Day at the Madison City-County Building

Date: 09 13 1960
Description: Poll workers pass the time during a light turnout for the 1960 primary in the 1st precinct of the Third Ward held at the City-County Building. Shown (L-R) ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
Photograph

Aaron Bohrod in his Studio

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Description: Caption with image reads: "Aaron Bohrod, pictured here in his studio, is the established American master of trompe l'oeil ('fool the eye') painting. This i...

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