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High Dive

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a crowd watching a diver who has launched himself from a high ladder supported by guy wires. The railing around a small pool is visible on...
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Northwestern Lithographing Company Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, art lithographers, with a flying winged female figure in flowing robes, holding an artist'...
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Northwestern Lithographing Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Northwestern Lithographing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, art lithographers, publishers, and engravers, with a standing female figure in ...
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Irving Dickman's 3-D Oil Paintings

Date: 08 08 1961
Description: Irving Dickman is shown "building" ads for newspapers in the same precise manner he uses in oil paintings.
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Industrial Designer

Date: 1970
Description: Industrial designer putting finishing touches on photograph of proposal for 1970 F4370 Transtar Highway Tractor Truck.
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Display for Madison Toy Loan

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Description: Display for the Madison Toy Loan program, set up in the corner of an industrial building. Signs for the display read: "Madison Toy Loan takes toys, like th...
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Sid in his Backyard Garden

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Description: View across Sid's backyard, with Sid standing and wearing a Japanese kimono near one of his Japanese lanterns and a gate. In the background behind a fence ...
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Tea Garden Card with Sid Boyum in Costume

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Description: Christmas card by Sid of himself standing in his backyard in the tea garden. Boyum, in grey kimono and straw conical hat and holding a small wooden keg, is...
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Sid in his Backyard

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Description: View across lawn towards Sid, standing and wearing a Japanese kimono and near the large arch, the Japanese Tea Pavilion and other lantern sculptures in his...
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Glassblower Wilma Erway

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Description: Wilma Erway working at the lathe in a glassblowing studio.
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Glassblower Norman Erway

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Description: Norman Erway working on a glass piece.
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Erway's Glassblowing Shop

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Description: Wilma and Norman Erway working in their glassblowing shop.
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Ceramic Arts Studios

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Paul Byrge making molds for ceramic figures at Ceramic Arts Studios, 8 North Blount Street.
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Charles Hoffhine and his Jewelry

Date: 11 02 1960
Description: Some of the colorful jewelry created by Charles Hoffhine for Bethany Methodist Church's Holiday Fair. Hoffhine, a former business manager of Methodist Hosp...
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Charles Hoffhine and his Jewelry

Date: 11 02 1960
Description: Charles Hoffine, shown in his basement workshop where he creates jewelry. He and his wife found many of the gem stones on the shores of the Great Lakes. Ho...

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