Date: | 04 1914 |
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Description: | Booker T. Washington stands flanked by Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones (left) and Jenkin Lloyd Jones (right) near the shore of a Madison lake. Washington, desc... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Four Madison authors are shown together holding books they have written. Seated are Francis F. Bowman and Prof. William Hesseltine. Standing are Miss Emil... |
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Description: | Informal portrait of writer Hamlin Garland at his family home in West Salem. The woman with him has been tentatively identified as his daughter, Mary Isabe... |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Casual portrait of August Derleth sitting behind his typewriter in his office, with Gaylord Nelson sitting on his desk to talk. |
Date: | 02 05 1949 |
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Description: | Professors Vernon Carstensen (left) and Merle Curti, with their wives, cutting the ceremonial cake at the testimonial luncheon in their honor as authors of... |
Date: | 09 2006 |
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Description: | Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, takes a break during a long day of presentations at Viterbo University. |
Date: | 09 2006 |
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Description: | Portrait of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, speaking at Viterbo University. |
Date: | 03 02 1949 |
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Description: | The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat," an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Un... |
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Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Brigadier General Charles King, Milwaukee author and instructor. |
Date: | 05 20 1921 |
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Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edward W. Spencer, Milwaukee lawyer and author. |
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Description: | Vignetted quarter-length studio portrait of Frances Wettstein, Milwaukee teacher, writer, lecturer, and educator of the deaf. |
Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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Description: | First page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding the publication of a book he was writing. |
Date: | 07 17 1881 |
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Description: | The second page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding publishing a book he was writing. |
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Description: | Gauer and Bloch's illustration of the phrase: "Even if he fell into an outhouse, he'd come out smelling like a rose." |
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Description: | Ray Bradbury came to Milwaukee to visit Bloch. They went to the Gauer "Lab" on Brady Street and they decided to dress him for a photograph. |
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Description: | Making use of Bloch's graduation outfit to photograph a "nutty professor" scene. |
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Description: | In the editorial offices of "Weird Tales" in Chicago. William R. Sprenger, secretary-treasurer of Weird Tales; Farnsworth Wright, editor; Henry Kuttner wri... |
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Description: | Bloch rented an office and a secretary so that he could dictate and complete eight stories. It was short-lived. Gauer's caption: Dictator, Water Cooler, Se... |
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Description: | Humorous photograph of Koplin, Bloch, and Gauer dressed as college boys wearing letter sweaters that spell out SOL, for shit-outta-luck. Gauer states they ... |
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Description: | Gauer with his "personality made" skull. Gauer caption: Mad scientist, and he was plenty sore too. |
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