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| Date: | 06 19 1907 |
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| Description: | Waitress tending a table in the dining room of the McCormick Works Club House. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alfred C. Clas (1859-1942), Milwaukee architect whose firm designed the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters building. The architectural f... |
| Date: | 11 08 1937 |
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| Description: | Earl W. Barnhardt sitting at a desk at Groves School for Secretaries, 502 State Street. |
| Date: | 10 14 1936 |
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| Description: | Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg sitting at her desk. Kellogg was an historian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 10 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Miss America, Margaret Ekdahl, standing in the Burdick & Murray department store modeling black pumps (shoes). Women are sitting in chairs behind her on th... |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop. |
| Date: | 01 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Thirteen year old Jane McElvain, the youngest member of the Mariner Senior Girl Scout program and an editorial writer for the Wisconsin State Journal Newsp... |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Anna Silbernagel Kurz, reminisces about her father, Jacob Silbernagel, an early downtown Madison businessman for a story in the Wiscons... |
| Date: | 11 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Miss Ellen C. Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, on her 95th birthday. Miss Sabin was one of America's most eminent woman in the field o... |
| 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: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head.... |
| Date: | 06 10 1921 |
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| Description: | Waist-up seated portrait of M.D. Byrne, Milwaukee company president. |
| Date: | 10 29 1913 |
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| Description: | Waist-up seated studio portrait of Phillip Gross, Milwaukee company president. He has a newspaper in his lap. |
| Date: | 10 20 1913 |
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| Description: | Waist-up seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Granville D. Jones, Wausau attorney. |
| Date: | 10 02 1914 |
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| Description: | Waist-up seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of William J. Jones, Milwaukee company president. |
| Date: | 09 18 1914 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated studio portrait of J.P. Rundle, Milwaukee company president. |
| Date: | 10 19 1914 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated side profile studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of James F. Trottman, Milwaukee lawyer and manufacturer. |
| 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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Ephraim Burt Trimpey and his wife Alice Kent Trimpey sit in front of their fireplace. The Trimpeys were antique dealers and collectors; Mr. Trimpey was als... |
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