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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Advertisement entitled "Sport Fun For Sport Fans!". It includes a photograph of comic artist Jay Orving and the character Bozo Blimp. |
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| Description: | August Derleth posed with part of his comic collection. The image is from a tinted photograph by Carmie Thompson. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Front cover for a book version of the popular comic strip by Clare Briggs (1875-1930), who was raised in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man is working at a drafting desk on a multi-panel comic strip titled "Henry." Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1950-4. Carl Anderson, cartoon artist of pop... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Cover of a comic book about Lyndon B. Johnson as a superhero named "Super LBJ." The cover features a full-color illustration of a man wearing a red and whi... |
| Date: | 10 1992 |
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| Description: | Cover of a presidential political campaign comic book. The writer is Larry Doyle, and the illustrator is Alan Kupperberg. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Comic actor Fred Stone holding the tiller of an early two-seat runabout. The automobile may be a Woods Electric or Woods Dual Power. Stone had been a circu... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Comic strip showing man bombing a house because it is being sold to an African-American man. A police officer arrests the seller of the home for inciting t... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Doris Ardelt, secretary of the Madison Civil defense office, hands out comic books to Mary Anthony, left, and Susan Peerenboom for distribution by the Girl... |
| Date: | 02 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Winners and entries in "Capital Times" Valentine contest. The Valentine with the court scene in the center, featuring comic actors in "Ladies of the Jury,"... |
| Date: | 05 25 1975 |
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| Description: | An image of a Harlequin (Arlecchino in Italian), a classical witty comic servant, on a terra cotta panel that decorates Lombardino's Restaurant at 2500 Uni... |
| Date: | 02 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Cartoonist Ken Ernst sketching Badger Beauty Ruth Schmitt whom he selected to represent a new character in his comic strip "Mary Worth". |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Gothic Blimp Works," an underground comic newspaper, featuring a cartoon by Robert Crumb. |
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| Description: | Still wearing his pajamas, "Milwaukee Sentinel" editor Alvin Steinkopf reads the newspaper. The popular comic strip, "Gasoline Alley," can be seen on the ... |
| Cartoonist and Comic Artist |
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| Discover the history of Thomas Carl Anderson |
| Date: | 01 27 1965 |
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| Description: | Eight members of the Wisconsin Ballet, including Mrs. David Johnson who is facing the camera, dance in the final scene of Verdi's comic opera "Falstaff" wh... |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Lake City House Saloon and Hotel |
| Reference Number: | 100016 |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Staged scene of a man pointing a rifle at another man, who has thrown his hands up and is leaning back. A third person is lying on the ground. A pond is be... |
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| Description: | Cartoon portrait of Caspar Milquetoast, the Timid Soul, a character created by Harold T. Webster, who was raised in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. |
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