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Painting

Nellie Jane Manning

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Description: Full-length portrait of Nellie Jane Manning.
Photograph

Interior of University Floral Company

Date: 11 13 1926
Description: Interior view of University Floral Company, 747 University Avenue, displaying flowers, potted plants, baskets, and wreaths.
Photograph

Office Work

Date: 1950
Description: Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space.
Photograph

Hospital Patient Watching Television

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: The installation of televisions in hospital rooms is a welcome addition to this patient at Misericordia Hospital.
Photograph

Buffet Table at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 1941
Description: Two nurses and four elderly people sitting behind buffet table at St. Mary's Hospital, 720 South Brooks Street.
Photograph

Group of Women

Date: 12 15 1935
Description: Group portrait of seventeen women posing behind a dinner table, 24 W. Mifflin Street. Taken for Laura Anderson.
Photograph

Wedding Supper

Date: 10 24 1934
Description: Eight people enjoying a wedding supper in the home of Dr. John Hill, 514 South Park Street, for newlyweds (?) James H. Hill Jr. of Baraboo, and Kathryn Bor...
Photograph

Parlor in "The House Next Door"

Date: 07 19 1933
Description: Parlor decorated in 1840s style in Ralph Warner's "The House Next Door." aka the Lovejoy-Duncan House, 11219 North Webster Street, showing piano and firepl...
Photograph

Fine Arts Studio

Date: 10 27 1932
Description: Fine Arts Studio, reception room, 25 W. Main Street, where individual artists taught music, painting sculpture, dramatics and other allied arts.
Photograph

Table Set for Dinner with Oscar Mayer Ham

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: Table set for dinner with Oscar Mayer ham.
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Co., Breakfast Display

Date: 09 16 1931
Description: Oscar Mayer Co., breakfast table, display of sausages and wheatcakes.
Photograph

Marx Family Group Portrait

Date: 09 19 1928
Description: Marx family portrait, view 1, taken for Sam Marx.
Photograph

Marx Family Group Portrait

Date: 08 19 1928
Description: Marx family portrait, view 2, taken for Sam Marx.
Photograph

Marx Family Group Portrait

Date: 09 19 1928
Description: Marx family portrait, view 3, taken for Sam Marx.
Photograph

Body in Coffin

Date: 06 30 1927
Description: View towards a body in a coffin in a home with a "Mother" floral arrangement. A cloth in front of a religious kneeler in front of the coffin reads: "IHS."
Photograph

Ole Ashburn and Wife Seated in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: This is identified as the Jacob Larsen farm, but pictured are Ole Ashburn and his second wife seated in the yard with a table between them. The frame house...
Photograph

Family Posed in front of House

Date: 1875
Description: A family poses in a front yard around a table that has flowers and cups on it. Behind them is a wood frame house with a sewing machine on its porch and a t...
Photograph

Family Posed in front of Gothic Revival House

Date: 1875
Description: A very formal family is seated around a table ornamented with glassware. Men strike poses in the yard. Behind them is a large wood frame Victorian house wi...
Photograph

William McFarland Family Pose in Yard

Date: 1880
Description: The William McFarland family is gathered around a table covered with books, pine cones, glassware and flowers in front of their Exchange Street house in Mc...
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Family posed around Table in Yard

Date: 1871
Description: A large family group is gathered around a table for coffee. The women are holding bunches of flowers, and behind them is a large bracket style house with a...

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