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Forest Middleton at Desk

Date: 1910
Description: Forest Middleton, wearing a visor and moccassins, sits at a roll top desk. He holds an open book and is smoking a pipe. There are two oil lamps on the desk...
Postcard

Forest Middleton and Friend

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic postcard of Forest Middleton, left, sitting cross-legged on a chair holding a pipe and glancing at a friend, possibly Eddie Quick. There is a ...
Photograph

Motorcycle with Sidecar

Date: 1925
Description: Forest Middleton poses in a sidecar smoking a pipe; the driver of the motorcycle is unidentified. They are parked on West Johnson Street with the Universit...
Photograph

Forest in Yokohama

Date: 1922
Description: Forest Middleton standing beside a bookcase holding a pipe. He is wearing a suit and tie. There are Japanese figurines on the top of the bookcase and a Jap...
Photograph

Smoking in Bed

Date: 1920
Description: A young man, possibly Forest Middleton, lying on a painted iron bed with a bed spread covering him. He is holding a lighted cigarette in his left hand; a c...
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Group on Lakeshore

Date: 1910
Description: Two boys in swimsuits and two well-dressed men pose beside a rowboat which has been pulled up on the sandy shore of, most likely, Lake Mendota.
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West Side Optimist Club Meeting

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: West Madison-Middleton Optimist Club members (left to right) W.C. Matthews, Keith McKenzie, Less Fleury and Dr. H.G. Meidell.
Photograph

Hunter

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified young man sitting on a low stump with a shotgun resting in the crook of his left arm. He is wearing a plaid cap and smoking a pipe. There i...
Photograph

Dancing at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 13 1975
Description: A couple dancing to accordion music at a book signing party at the Club Tavern. A young boy is dancing near them in the center, and the accordion player is...
Photograph

Book Signing Party at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 13 1975
Description: View from behind of a female patron and a man, perhaps a bartender, chatting at a book signing party at the Club Tavern. The bartender has the book, Blu...
Photograph

Man Posing with a Book at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 04 1975
Description: Portrait of a man sitting behind the bar at the Club Tavern, posing with a copy of the book, Blue-Collar Aristocrats, by E.E. LeMasters. Patrons are...
Photograph

Book Signing Party at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 13 1975
Description: A group of three men and one woman sitting in a booth at the Club Tavern with author E.E. LeMasters, who is wearing a sport coat. Copies of the author's bo...
Photograph

Southern Port

Date: 1935
Description: The funnels (smokestacks) of two large steamships are visible over warehouse buildings on a pier of a southern American port. Both ships have nautical flag...

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