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David G. Thompson M.F.A. Show

Date: 05 1971
Description: Poster announcing M.F.A. art exhibition for David G. Thompson. Held May 21-28, 1971, at the Wisconsin Center Concourse Gallery in Madison. Features various...
Poster

"Spirit In Flesh" L.P. Poster

Date: 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising for a new "Spirit in Flesh" LP. Features a bearded singer, holding a microphone and wearing an open vest.
Poster

"Free Karl" Poster

Date: 04 1972
Description: Poster advocating the release of Karl Armstrong, who was incarcerated for his involvement in the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-...
Poster

"Sweet Death and Other Pleasures" Exhibition Poster

Date: 04 1972
Description: Poster for an exhibition at the Madison Art Center, entitled "Sweet Death and Other Pleasures," sponsored by the Madison Print Club. Exhibition took place ...
Poster

Neil Young Promotional Poster

Date: 07 1972
Description: Poster created by Madison-based Johnathan Chritton, most likely to commemorate the release of the album "Harvest" (1972), featuring Neil Young playing an a...
Print

Festival Choir Concert Poster

Date: 04 1975
Description: Poster announcing "Festival Choir," a concert of music from America, conducted by David Crosby, at several venues in Madison and Monona, Wisconsin. Feature...
Photograph

Madison Public Library

Date: 
Description: Interior view of the Madison Public Library. The library opened in 1905 and was funded by a $75,000 gift from Andrew Carnegie. Reverse of cardboard mountin...
Photograph

Clara Middleton at Home

Date: 1905
Description: A portrait, possibly a self-portrait, of Clara Middleton seated in her home. She wears a large hat; her gloves rest in her lap. There is a jardiniere with ...
Photograph

Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Gilbert Stahl, camera man for Brock Engraving Company, adjusts art in the copy holder. Shown is the camera which will shoot the art; negatives are develope...
Photograph

Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition

Date: 10 09 1957
Description: The 19th annual Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition was held for the first time at the Memorial Union. Magnus Harding, president of the Madison Art Associatio...
Photograph

Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition

Date: 10 09 1957
Description: The 19th annual Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition was held for the first time at the Memorial Union. Gibson Byrd (left), Ellen Colescott and Warrington Cole...
Photograph

Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition

Date: 10 09 1957
Description: The 19th annual Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition was held for the first time at the Memorial Union. Dorothy Angevine, at left, chats with Leonora Courtenay...
Photograph

Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition

Date: 10 09 1957
Description: The 19th annual Wisconsin Printmakers Exhibition was held for the first time at the Memorial Union. Two works by Alfred Sessler, a professor of art educati...
Postcard

Room 2, Public School

Date: 1911
Description: Students are posing sitting sideways at their desks in the classroom for a group portrait. The teacher is standing in the back near a door.
Photograph

Designing Christmas Cards

Date: 10 27 1959
Description: Ardis Thvedt, assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin's agricultural journalism department, studies a design she'll use for making her Christmas...
Photograph

We Saw You Viewing Japanese Prints

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Dorothy and D. Murray Angevine (left); and Mrs. and Mr. Masako Yamada attending the opening of an exhibition of Japanese prints at the U.W. Memorial Librar...
Photograph

We Saw You Viewing Japanese Prints

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: At the opening of an exhibition of Japanese prints at the U.W. Memorial Library are, left to right, Kishio Matoba, art teacher at Central High School and m...
Photograph

We Saw You Viewing Japanese Prints

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Iwao Hara (left), Margaret Schorger, and Mae Hara attend the opening of an exhibit of Japanese prints at the U.W. Memorial Library.
Photograph

We Saw You Viewing Japanese Prints

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Santos Zingale, assistant professor of art education at the U.W., and Louise Langer, wife of Prof. Rudolph Langer, owner of the collection, attend an exhi...
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt

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Description: Paul Vanderbilt works at a table in the Iconography Section at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Stacks of photographs and boxes cover the table, along wit...

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