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Historical Object

Beaded Reebok Baby Shoes

Date: 1990
Description: A pair of Reebok baby shoes, beaded by Ho-Chunk artist Linda Lucero. The beads are glass and the shoes were probably never worn.
Photograph

Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more livable. Shown is Mrs. Robert Walters. She and h...
Photograph

Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more livable. Shown is Mrs. Robert Rapp with her 2-ye...
Photograph

Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more attractive and livable. Shown is David, left, an...
Photograph

Decorating Eagle Heights Apartment

Date: 01 27 1961
Description: One of a series of photographs depicting ways U.W. graduate students have made their small apartments more attractive and livable. Shown is Marion Brown st...
Photograph

Nancy Knight

Date: 11 30 1960
Description: Helping to plan a Christmas party for the Daughters of Demeter is decorations chairman Nancy Knight. She will decorate with greens in contemporary style.
Photograph

Attic Angels Benefit Sale

Date: 08 30 1960
Description: Alpha Harper and Margaret Seward, members of Attic Angels who will assist at the antique and flower sale, are admiring a Wedgwood biscuit barrel, one of ma...
Photograph

Attic Angels Benefit Sale

Date: 08 30 1960
Description: Virginia Purnell, one of the three co-chairmen of the Attic Angel benefit antique and artificial flower arrangement sale is shown at the front entrance of ...
Photograph

Dane County Dental Auxiliary

Date: 11 26 1958
Description: Group portrait of five members of the Dane County Dental Auxiliary, with one of them displaying a tiny lace Christmas tree 'skirt' which will decorate the ...
Manuscript

Company B, 49th Reg. Wisconsin Infantry Roster

Date: 1865
Description: A Civil War roster commemorating the soldiers of Company B in the 49th Reg. Wisconsin Infantry. There is an eagle at center top with a banner that reads: "...
Photograph

Home Decorated with Articles from India

Date: 06 17 1958
Description: A group of Indian art objects on the mantel in the home of Agatha Fowlkes on Cambridge Road.
Photograph

Home Decorated with Articles from India

Date: 06 17 1958
Description: A decorative art piece depicting the Hindu god, Shiva, stands on a bookcase in the home of Agatha Fowlkes on Cambridge Road.
Photograph

Wolman Family Home

Date: 05 08 1958
Description: New home, located at 4121 Chippewa Drive, designed by owners Martin and Ann Wolman to meet the needs of their large family of five children. Shown is a wal...
Photograph

New Cross on Bethany Methodist Church

Date: 04 04 1958
Description: Newly installed metal cross on the exterior of the recently completed sanctuary of Bethany United Methodist at 3910 Mineral Point Road. The aluminum cross ...
Historical Object

Stoneware Punch Bowl

Date: 
Description: Stoneware bowl with a clear glaze on gray clay. Exterior has raised grape clusters in blue and painted blue underglaze. Interior surface has hand-painted b...
Historical Object

Stoneware Vase

Date: 1893
Description: Stoneware vase is ovoid-shaped with a flared rim. It is gray with a salt-glaze. The dark brown on the lower body and the top of the neck may be caused by a...
Historical Object

Block-Printed Wall Hanging

Date: 
Description: A fabric, block-printed wall hanging featuring in its design a deer, the sun, and evergreen trees.
Photograph

Block Printing: Completed Textile

Date: 1937
Description: Caption reads: "The textile is now completed -- ready to be delivered to some tax supported institution".
Photograph

Blockprint Unit: Imprint Secured by Pounding

Date: 1937
Description: Caption reads: "The imprint is secured by pounding upon the block with a wooden mallet".
Photograph

Blockprinting

Date: 1937
Description: A woman is printing material stretched over a padded table. Another woman is working at a table in the background.

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