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Painting

Unidentified Young Woman

Date: 
Description: Painted miniature of a young woman wearing a pendant necklace, blue robe over chemise, and straw bonnet with blue ribbon tied under her chin.
Photograph

Smelter Workers

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Description: Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them.
Photograph

Woman Sitting

Date: 1930
Description: Portrait of a woman sitting on the ground against a white plaster wall. She is wearing a richly embroidered dress and shawl, and a headdress with metal ban...
Photograph

Grandma's Favorite Recipes

Date: 2012
Description: Sign mounted on a painted brick wall next to a doorway in a downtown alley. Features a head and shoulders caricature of a woman wearing glasses perched on ...
Photograph

Madison Art Association Craft Fair

Date: 11 19 1952
Description: Three women serving as jurors of acceptance for the Madison Art Association craft fair. Left to right: Professor Helen Allen, U.W. Department of Related Ar...
Photograph

Steelworkers Costume Party Winners

Date: 11 08 1947
Description: Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation).
Photograph

Mader's German Restaurant

Date: 04 11 1940
Description: Exterior of building, with a peaked roof with embellishments on the edge. Two bas-relief figures of a man and woman carrying food and drink are set in the ...
Photograph

Courtyard

Date: 1920
Description: A Mediterranean style courtyard is seen through an archway with a wrought-iron gate. There are plants in large pots and a balcony on the left. A small stat...
Print

Stanley & Camp Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Stanley & Camp, Jewelers, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Features a winged Father Time holding a large pocket watch in an extended hand, while a yo...
Photograph

Need Two Tickets

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: View down grassy lawn bordered by trees towards two men wearing suits who are walking along a metal barricade blocking the sidewalk and street on the righ...
Photograph

Televised News Crews at the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Slightly elevated view of two reporters, Veronica Macias from TMJ4, and a man from WFRV-TV Local 5, who are standing on grass behind metal fence barricades...
Photograph

Statue of Pocahontas

Date: 1922
Description: Close-up of a statue of Pocahontas located in the oldtown area of the city. Installed in 1922, and sculpted by William Ordway Partridge, the bronze statue...
Photograph

Publicity Portrait of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1906
Description: An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt posed in the "Egyptian" style. She wears an intricate dress decorated with metallic ribbons and a...
Postcard

Erickson and Evenson Company Store

Date: 10 09 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Erickson and Evenson Co. Store. Stetsonville, Wis." Four men and a boy on a tricycle pose on the boardwalk in front of a General Stor...
Painting

Yellow Trenchcoat Design for "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Date: 1961
Description: A drawing in pencil, ink, gouache, and watercolor of a design for a yellow trench coat worn by Audrey Hepburn in the bus station scene in "Breakfast at Tif...
Photograph

Pearl White Clamming

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Description: Actress Pearl White stands on the beach with two small boys — Billie and Buddie — one of whom is her nephew. The three are digging for clams. White wears a...
Photograph

The School at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Teacher Marjorie Carey stands behind her pupils sitting at their desks at the Mud Branch School, District No. 2, as they pose for their photograph. There i...

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