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Richard Brobst

Date: 04 20 1947
Description: Portrait of Richard Brobst sitting on a couch. Opened packages of photography equipment are next to him.
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Please Leave a Message

Date: 08 22 2015
Description: Close-up of green box in the shape of a house hanging on a pink stucco wall. A pink photograph of trees is framed by the hinged door of the box.
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Reviewing Historic Photographs

Date: 08 2003
Description: Dorothy Krueger and Richard and Sandy Yehl review historic photographs.
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Art Gallery

Date: 12 2013
Description: Postmodern works of art hanging, somewhat chaotically, on a corner wall. There are photographs of people combined with found object sculptures. Other sculp...
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Kitten on the Radio in the Barn

Date: 08 2013
Description: A photograph of a photograph of a kitten sitting on an old radio. The photograph is hanging in a wood frame from the rafters of the barn.
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Sandhill Crane Sign at the Arboretum

Date: 01 11 2015
Description: A sign with a large photograph of the head of a Sandhill crane is standing at the edge of a forest on a trail. The ground is covered in snow. There are hou...
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Portrait of Floyd and Marjorie Quinney

Date: 1923
Description: Studio portrait of Marjorie and Floyd Quinney.
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Robert La Follette

Date: 09 2013
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of a life-size figure of Robert La Follette mounted on a board, also known as "Fighting Bob." The figure is standing in the c...
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Barbara's Chrysalis and Pottery Bowl

Date: 07 17 2015
Description: View of a blue ceramic bowl sitting on an ornately decorated cloth. Behind it is a poster or page from a book with two photographs of a monarch butterfly e...
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Work Place

Date: 11 10 2014
Description: View of a red chair in front of a desk with built-in shelves. In the center is a Macintosh computer and keyboard. A telephone, lamp, and magnifying lens ar...
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Holloway Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of James and Mary Bray Holloway and their children, Lizzie and Will.
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Exhibition of the Photographic Work of Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 10 28 2014
Description: A man standing and observing photographs on display on the wall of the James Watrous Gallery. The photography is black and white, showing images of buildin...
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Photographer Rick Wood

Date: 2014
Description: Slightly elevated view of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Richard (Rick) Wood. He is kneeling on the sidelines at a football game at Camp Randall M...
Historical Essay

Remembering Madison - Image Gallery Essay

The Lloyd Jones Family Album
Read about the career of The Capital Times founder Richard Lloyd Jones and browse through photographs he and his wife took while living in Madison.
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1950's Memories

Date: 07 15 1987
Description: A woman finishes a display of Bay View High School photographs from the 1950s as part of an any-year reunion at the Festa Italiana on the Summerfest ground...
Historical Essay

Interweaving the Autobiographical, the Philosophical and the Visual - Image Gallery Essay

Photographs by Richard Quinney
Discover the photographs of Richard Quinney from his book "Things Once Seen," containing more than 40 years of photos documenting his life.
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The "Family of Man" Exhibit

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Guests at the evening opening party for the "Family of Man" photographic exhibition, at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The exhibition was organ...
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The "Family of Man" Exhibit

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Guests at the evening opening party for the "Family of Man" photographic exhibition at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The exhibition was organi...
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The "Family of Man" Exhibit

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Guests at the evening opening party for the "Family of Man" photographic exhibition, at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The exhibition was organ...
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Foster Parents

Date: 06 11 1958
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Hentschel of Verona look at wedding pictures of their foster daughter, Betty, who lived with them for five years before her marriage to R...

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