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East High School Graduation Backdrop

Date: 06 08 1945
Description: An East High School student shown with images of the presidents Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt, a depiction of an Iwo Jima flag raising and tw...
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Central High School Student Council

Date: 01 29 1948
Description: Officers of the Central High School Student Council posed in front of a mural: left to right are Donna Neu, secretary; Coleman Jackson, treasurer; Carl Car...
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Young Woman on Her Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a young woman on the occasion of her graduation. She wears a white dress with a corsage pinned to...
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West High School Homecoming Dance

Date: 10 05 1950
Description: Making decorations for West High School's homecoming dance are the following West students: Richard Hanson, Betsy Severson, Marilyn Jones, and Julie Torris...
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Madison Central High School Committee

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Members of the Madison Central High School committee plan the annual Student Council Faculty Tea. Seated are, left to right: Miss Elizabeth Ritzmann, advis...
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Young Men and Women Posing with Nun

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a nun, one young man and five young women in front of a painted backdrop. The children are all ho...
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Young Woman with Diploma

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a Young woman in front of a painted backdrop. She is standing posed next to a chair with a scroll...
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Young Man Seated at Table

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Hugo Faust sitting at a table in front of a painted backdrop. He is wearing a suit and cap and has one hand on the chair arm...
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Portrait of a Young Man

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a young man standing in front of a painted backdrop. A wavy white mask frames the portrait.
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Studio Portrait of a Young Man

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a young man in front of a painted backdrop. He is wearing a suit with short pants, stockings and shoes.
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Genevieve Milward

Date: 06 1921
Description: Full-length studio graduation portrait of Genevieve Milward (later McVicar), (1902-1987) of Madison, Wisconsin, standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sh...
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Portrait of Three Girls and a Nun

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a nun seated in a chair and three girls posed behind her. The nun is wearing a habit, wimple ...
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Portrait of Three Young Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of three young women posed in front of a painted backdrop. The middle woman is seated and the others stand on each side behind ...
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Cross Plains American Legion Basketball Team

Date: 1926
Description: Studio portrait of the Cross Plains American Legion basketball team, coaches and assistants in front of a painted backdrop. The players wear uniforms, the ...
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Red Cross Volunteers Fill Rosemaled Box

Date: 08 22 1961
Description: Two teen girls examining the contents of large rosemaled (painted decorations) wooden box. The original caption states: "Norwegian rosemaling on a American...
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Group in a Studio with "90"

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted background of eight young men and women posing around a wooden sign painted with the number "90."
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Ruthy Saunders and Robert Reznichek Win Art Competition at Grace Episcopal Church

Date: 02 15 1958
Description: Ruthy Saunders (center, 831 Prospect Place) and her painting "Prayer" won the first-place prize in the centennial art competition at Grace Episcopal Church...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: The Madison Altrusa club gives a summer scholarship each year to a talented Madison student in honor of the late Lucy Irene Buck, a former club president a...
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Art Exhibit at Grace Episcopal Church

Date: 10 25 1958
Description: Young Madison artists who studied in the summer under the Lucy Irene Buck scholarship display their work in the gallery of Grace Episcopal church. Pictured...

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