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Mary Mathews Adams

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Description: Photograph of a framed painting of Mary Mathews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works i...
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Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Steven Riley, one of seven kindergarten students of the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "l...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Colleen Dunn, one of seven kindergarten members of the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "li...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Dennis Kennedy, one of seven kindergarten members of the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Kathleen McCue, one of seven kindergarten students at the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the ...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Dickie Manion, one of seven kindergarten members of the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "l...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Mary Jo Sweeney, one of seven kindergarten students at the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the...
Photograph

Children of Irish Descent

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Portrait of Peter McKenna, one of seven kindergarten students at the Edgewood campus school whose photograph is featured in a newspaper article about the "...
Photograph

Mary Mathews Adams

Date: 1896
Description: Vignetted waist-up portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works incl...
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Chippewas, Irish & Dutch

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of men, women, and children. Title reads: "A bunch of natives, head of Lake Superior, Chippewas, Irish & Dutch."
Photograph

Elevated View of Slabtown/Flora Fountain

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Slabtown/Flora Fountain. The church in the lower right was built by the Latter Day Saints and later moved to Lancaster.
Print

Ancient Order of Hibernians of Michigan Banquet Menu

Date: 08 21 1912
Description: Banquet menu for the Fourteenth Biennial Convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Michigan. On the cover is a Celtic harp adorned with shamrocks, p...
Photograph

Portrait of Charles Donohue

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Description: Portrait of the Honorable Charles Donohue, Mayor of New Richmond, Wisconsin. Donohue was born December 5, 1843 in Goosebury Hill, Co. Cork in Ireland and d...
Photograph

Irish Kindergarteners at Edgewood School

Date: 02 27 1949
Description: Six Irish kindergarteners at Edgewood School. Individual photographs of Jimmy Farrell, Patricia Sweeney, Jean Shannon, Keith Lawler, Colleen McCormick, and...
Photograph

Wesley Barry and Kate Price in Scene Still

Date: 1918
Description: Mrs. Americus Jenkins (played by Kate Price) nurses her sick son (Wesley Barry) in a tenement set for the silent film "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley."
Photograph

St. Patrick's Day Portraits

Date: 03 07 1950
Description: A sprinkling of freckles gives an authentic Irish touch to the children of Mr.and Mrs. Thomas J. (Rosamund) Doran of 4117 Yuma Drive: twelve-year old Geral...
Photograph

St. Patrick's Day Portraits

Date: 03 07 1950
Description: 'Tis Irish they are for sure, begorra, these young lads, five-year old Richard, left, and his eleven-month old brother, Patrick, right. The boys are the so...
Map or Atlas

Map of Nationalities in Wisconsin

Date: 1890
Description: A hand-colored map of Wisconsin showing distribution ethnic groups based on the 1885 state census. The various nationalities are color-coded and include: I...
Map or Atlas

All Men Are Created Equal Map

Date: 06 29 1941
Description: A map showing the national roots of the people of Wisconsin, based on the ethnic stock research by University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Prof. George...
Poster

Poster for "Mr. Blarney from Ireland"

Date: 1906
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. Across the top is the caption "Chas. E. Blaney presents," flanked by smaller banners left and right. The left banner read...

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