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Drawing

Drawing of Insect in Garden

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Description: Imaginative insect crouched in a fantastical garden among flowers and plants.
Historical Object

Stuart Fargo at Eighteen Months

Date: 1899
Description: A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Historical Society Floor Mosaic

Date: 1899
Description: Mosaic in the north/central lobby floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society. This is the printer's mark for Jehan Frellon, a prominent printer in Lyons, Fr...
Photograph

Bill Marr and Wasps

Date: 1907
Description: Bill Marr swatting at wasps in the great outdoors.
Photograph

Bill Combating Wasps

Date: 1907
Description: Bill Marr smiling as he is swatting at wasps.
Photograph

Young Male Common Whitetail Dragonfly

Date: 06 06 2015
Description: Close-up view of a brown dragonfly resting on a rock.
Photograph

Barbara's Chrysalis and Pottery Bowl

Date: 07 17 2015
Description: View of a blue ceramic bowl sitting on an ornately decorated cloth. Behind it is a poster or page from a book with two photographs of a monarch butterfly e...
Photograph

Blossoms on the Trumpet Vine

Date: 07 15 2015
Description: Close-up view of trumpet vine blossoms. An insect is crawling along the inside of one of the flowers.
Photograph

Collecting Helgramites

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Description: A man wearing hip waders is standing in wetlands holding a collecting screen. He is collecting helgramites (a type of insect larva) to be used as bait for ...
Photograph

Barn Swallow with Bug

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Description: A barn swallow with a bug in its beak perching on a post. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
Photograph

Giant Fly Sharing Bowl with Toddler

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Description: Illustration of a toddler sitting near a window in a high chair eating from a bowl with a spoon. A giant fly is also eating from the bowl. Hand-tinted lant...

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