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Bust and Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

Date: 02 10 1961
Description: A bust and portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Photograph taken at an unknown location.
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Madison Woman's Club Hobbies and Craft Show

Date: 01 26 1961
Description: Clara Simley demonstrates the rosemaling process to Celia Tatum at the Woman's Club of Madison hobbies and craft show.
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Alexandra, Princess of Wales

Date: 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Alexandra, Princess of Wales, later Queen of the United Kingdom, posing with a toddler in her ar...
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Sitting Bull Oil Painting

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Description: Photograph of an oil painting of Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull, depicted standing and holding a rifle. Caption reads: "Oil painting of Sitting Bull b...
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Sioux Sun Dance

Date: 1874
Description: Copy photograph of a painting of a Sioux Sun Dance ritual. Painting by Jules Tavernier.
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Making Diorama Figures

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Description: A woman is sitting at a desk and painting a kneeling figure. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. State Historical Society of Wis. Staff member working on figures...
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Aaron Bohrod

Date: 1948
Description: Elevated view of a man holding a paintbrush to a painting on a drafting desk. Several framed paintings are on the ground. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 194...
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Katharine A. Church

Date: 08 15 1960
Description: Katharine A. Church is shown seated outside in her backyard, paintbrush in hand, in front of an easel with a painting depicting flowers. A flower garden is...
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High School Baseball Team

Date: 1885
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a high school baseball team.
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Studio Wedding Couple

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a couple posed in a studio. The man is standing and the woman is sitting.
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Alexandra of Denmark

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Description: Three-quarter length standing carte-de-visite portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Alexandra of Denmark, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the ...
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Edward Porter Alexander

Date: 01 26 1954
Description: Caption reads: "Edward Porter Alexander (1907- ). Supt. (Director) of the State Hist. Soc. of Wis., 1941-1946. Photocopy of an oil portrait by James S. Wat...
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Czar and Czarina of Russia

Date: 1890
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Tsar Alexander III and Tsarina Maria Feodorovna.
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Albert Alden

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Description: Photograph of a painting of Albert Alden, shipmaster from Portland, Maine.
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Albert Alden

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Description: Painted profile portrait of Albert Alden, owner and ship master. He was the next to the youngest son of Captain John Alden of Portland, Maine. Caption read...
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John Alden

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Description: Photograph of a painting of John Alden, the eldest son of Captain John Alden, at 13 years old.
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Captain John Alden

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Description: Photograph of a painting of Captain John Alden, one of the original passengers on the Mayflower.
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Artist Aaron Bohrod Shows Off New Studio

Date: 07 08 1960
Description: University of Wisconsin Artist-in-Residence Aaron Bohrod shows his new studio at his English Tudor style home at 4811 Tonyawatha Trail overlooking Lake Mon...
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William Askew Addington and Adaline Amanda Kelly Addington

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Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of William Askew Addington and Adaline Amanda Kelly Addington. William was drafted into the Confederate army in his 40s. Af...
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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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