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Doris LeBundy and her Son Norman Lee Johnson

Date: 04 03 1934
Description: Doris LeBundy and her son Norman Lee Johnson at Police Station after being picked up for hitching a ride on a railroad car.
Photograph

Herbert Krueger

Date: 06 27 1910
Description: A young boy with bare feet and wearing overalls is sitting on a chair in front of a porch enclosure or support with decorative latticework on the sides. Th...
Drawing

Fisher Ames

Date: 1864
Description: Engraved lithographic portrait of Fisher Ames, a Federalist politician. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1788, then a membe...
Photograph

He Favors More Student Marriages

Date: 12 23 1932
Description: Portrait of a man seated in an office. Caption reads: "HE FAVORS MORE STUDENT MARRIAGES. Prof. Edward Aylesworth [sic] Ross, widely known sociologist of th...
Photograph

Drugstore/Stationery Store/Photo Studio

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Description: View across an unpaved street of a building with three storefronts. Signs on the taller building on the right read "Drugstore," "Books/Stationery," and "Ph...
Photograph

Mayoral Candidate, Henry Reynolds

Date: 02 02 1961
Description: Henry E. Reynolds, Madison businessman and candidate for mayor, is seated on a chair with all of his nomination sheets spread around him in an effort to sh...
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Madison Woman's Club Hobbies and Craft Show

Date: 01 26 1961
Description: Amelia Flemming demonstrates her chair caning to Edna Lundy at the hobbies and craft show of the Woman's Club of Madison.
Photograph

Unveiling of Monona Terrace Plans

Date: 01 23 1961
Description: Helen Groves stands on a chair for a better view of the unveiling of the plans for Monona Terrace to the Auditorium Committee by architect Wesley Peters.
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Graduate Students Share a House

Date: 01 10 1961
Description: One in a series of photographs of four U.W. physics graduate students who are renting a furnished home at 429 Russell Walk. Having his hair cut by Reinhard...
Photograph

Joseph Mabbett Allcott

Date: 1856
Description: Carte-de-visite of Joseph Mabbett Allcott, proprietor of J.M. Allcott & Co. drug store in Milwaukee. He is sitting in a chair, with a dog resting at his fe...
Photograph

King Alfonso XIII

Date: 02 1918
Description: Portrait of Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, who is seated and holding his chin in his hand. Caption reads: "Photograph by Western Newspaper Union. Latest phot...
Photograph

King Alfonso XII and Queen Maria Christina

Date: 1880
Description: Cabinet card portrait of Alfonso XII and Maria Christina, the King and Queen of Spain.
Print

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh

Date: 1874
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of a reproduction of a painted portrait of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, with his wife Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Rus...
Photograph

Louisa May Alcott

Date: 1887
Description: Seated profile portrait of American novelist Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women and its sequels.
Photograph

State School for Girls

Date: 1956
Description: A teenage girl is sitting in a chair in the right foreground in front of a desk. A woman is sitting behind the desk facing her. Caption reads: "Oregon, Wis...
Book or Pamphlet

Four Panel Pamphlet with Photographs

Date: 1960
Description: A two-sided four panel folded pamphlet. The photographs are, from left to right: view looking out of an open doorway toward two children titled: "Like Birt...
Photograph

We Saw You on Moving Day

Date: 09 30 1960
Description: While Reynolds Transfer and Storage Co. moved furniture, Russ Gessler, 1250 Elmwood Avenue, Middleton, manager of the mail file, was upstairs waiting in an...
Photograph

Arthur O. Schroeder Home on Token Creek

Date: 10 04 1960
Description: Mrs. Arthur O. Schroeder enjoys the view of Token creek with a friend.
Photograph

Eleanor Blankenship

Date: 08 15 1960
Description: Eleanor Blankinship, age 66, is shown at her desk at the University hospital allergy clinic where she started working in 1943. She shares a house with her ...
Photograph

Mary Myott Alexander

Date: 1921
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of a seated woman. Caption reads: "Letter, July 21, 1921, N. W. Jipson to L. P. Kellogg (in office file) says: 'Knowing of your in...

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