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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milo Milton Quaife (1880-1959), serving as director and editor from 1914 to 1920. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Two men and a woman working in a branch(?) office of the International Harvester Company. One man is talking on a telephone. Portraits of William Deering a... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Certificate issued to E.M. Griffith, the Wisconsin State Forester, so that Griffith could prove that he had flown at an altitude of 1600 feet in the "flyin... |
| Date: | 07 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota, Wisconsin, interior view of the bar showing liquor bottles and three World War II servicemen... |
| Date: | 12 02 1940 |
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| Description: | Scene from the play "Stage Door," presented by Blackfriars Theater Guild. |
| Date: | 07 03 1934 |
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| Description: | W.A. Devine, Madison postmaster for 24 years, with his portrait, painted by Arthur N. Colt, a Madison artist, at State Historical Society, 816 State Street... |
| Date: | 03 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette buying a "buddy poppy" from two women in behalf of the American Legion. The governor is standing in his Wisconsin State Cap... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Color poster printed to honor the 60th anniversary of Alfred Lawson's flight from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C. The poster includes a portrait of Lawson a... |
| Date: | 11 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin Banking Commission shown examining a State Historical Society collection of coins and currency, and bank notes signed by some of W... |
| Date: | 01 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Julius Rehder, artist (1861-1955) with his son, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Helmut Rehder, looking at an oil painting done by the father when... |
| Date: | 02 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Julius Rehder with his "Portrait of a Gentleman," which won first prize in oils at the Madison Artist's exhibition. The painting, which received the Oscar ... |
| Date: | 06 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Roy Matson, Editor, and Rex Karney, political writer, both of the Wisconsin State Journal, pictured in Matson's office prior to their leaving to att... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Ellis B. Usher, editor and prominent Wisconsin Democrat, from the frontispiece of his multi-volume history of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | President's office with fireplace and large table in Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Dicky Chapelle gazing into the distance, during her Iwo Okinawa period. She is wearing her War Correspondent uniform with hat. Possibly with camera slung o... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Dicky Chapelle gazing into the distance, during her Iwo Okinawa period. She is wearing her War Correspondent uniform with hat. Possibly with camera slung o... |
| Date: | 04 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Noted Chicago artist Christian Abrahamson holds a palette and paintbrushes as he stands next to a portrait of the retired chief justice of the Wisconsin Su... |
| Date: | 10 23 1978 |
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| Description: | Jack A. Smith, managing editor of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper. Smith's admiration for Chinese communism is suggested by the decorations on h... |
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