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| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto. Ship Bremen 1930. Located on Highway 71, 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 27, 9 miles north of Sparta, WI. One o... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Paul & Matilda Wegner Grotto. Little Glass Church ca 1930-1934. Located on Highway 71, 1/4 mile west of Hwy. 27, 9 miles north of S... |
| Date: | 02 22 2015 |
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| Description: | A painted, flat, yard sculpture of a blue heron sitting in the snow in the photographer's yard. A few dead plants are sticking up out of the snow. |
| Date: | 05 2014 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a decrepit wooden whirligig about to be retired. The paint on the figure of a man riding a horse is faded, and the blades of the whirligig... |
| Date: | 06 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Friede (?) sits in a chair while crocheting a doily. |
| Date: | 08 12 1960 |
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| Description: | Walter Lofblad, a Cumberland farmer, with miniature Milwaukee Braves figures he carved from basswood. The carved set includes the entire starting lineup, m... |
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| Description: | Sculpture of a moose at Fred Smith's Concrete Park. |
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| Description: | View of several sculptures in Fred Smith's Concrete Park. |
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| Description: | View of several sculptures, including depictions of people, angels, and various animals in Fred Smith's Concrete Park. |
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| Description: | Detail of a statue of a man at Fred Smith's Concrete Park. |
| Date: | 07 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Gladys Dieruf, UW Extension librarian, looks at one of the arts and crafts reproductions collected by the University of Wisconsin Extension Bureau of Infor... |
| Date: | 02 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Seven examples of plaster models of animals made by marine recruiting officer Lewis McKerley of Florence County on display at the governor's residence. He ... |
| Date: | 12 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Celin Furu is shown in Norwegian costume displaying her rosemaled painted platters and sideboard cabinet. She was a wartime resident of Bergen, Norway... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Two Scandinavian chests with handmade metal fittings and decorative rosemaling. The chest on the right is dated 1831. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A Scandinavian chest with old script and rosemaling. The metal fittings are handmade. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woman in Norwegian dress playing the monochord. |
| Date: | 1994 |
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| Description: | Fred Smith's Concrete Park, including folk art pieces depicting people, dogs and a team of horses. |
| Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
| Date: | 10 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Rosemaling featured on a display of a teaset and serving plates as part of an exhibit of Elaine Smedal's "Norwegian Wisconsin as a Source of Design." Elain... |
| Date: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Helen Burkhart holds a box on which she has appliqued gold paper and inlaid various colored stones. |
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