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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Mother's Day

Date: 04 23 1963
Description: A grandmother with daughter and granddaughter. They are nicely dressed for mother's day.
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Hailing the 5,000,000th International Harvester Tractor

Date: 02 01 1974
Description: Press release photograph of female model, Valerie Robb, posing on the 5,000,000th International Harvester tractor to roll off the assembly line on Feb. 1, ...
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Chief Justice Marvin Rosenberry

Date: 06 15 1935
Description: Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry speaking in the Assembly Chamber during the 10th annual Robert M. La Follette, Sr., memorial ser...
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Santa Claus Mail Box

Date: 11 24
Description: Harry Dimond, general manager of Hills Dry Goods Store & Postmaster Walter Hyland stand on either side of the "Santa Claus Mail Box" placed in Hill's Dry G...
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Arthur MacArthur, Jr.

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Major General Arthur MacArthur in profile, wearing a military uniform and holding a sword, and a hat.
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O'Konski and Obey

Date: 08 10 1974
Description: Wisconsin congressmen David Obey (left) and former congressman Alvin O'Konski breaking ground for a United States Forest Services genetics lab. After the c...
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George Romney

Date: 11 11 1954
Description: George Romney speaks at the Kenosha Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner. Robert L. Grover is partially visible, seated next to where Romney stands.
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Arden Shenker and Mark Laufman

Date: 1975
Description: Arden Shenker presents the Madison Jewish Community Council Young Leadership award to Mark Laufman.
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Arthur J. Altmeyer as President of the Permanent Inter-American Committee on Social Security

Date: 1951
Description: Arthur J. Altmeyer, President of the Permanent Inter-American Committee on Social Security, greeting Eva Peron, President of the Inter-American Conference ...
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Group Portrait of Young Men and Women in Formal Attire

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three men posing sitting on the floor, in front of five men posing sitting in chairs, and four women stan...
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Edith Head and Janet Leigh

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Description: Janet Leigh and Edith Head standing next to a table with five Oscar statues. Edith is holding an Oscar statue in her hands. Janet is wearing a full-length ...
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Leon Varjian with "Color Guard"

Date: 12 03 1979
Description: W.S.A. (Wisconsin Student Association) President Leon Varjian, flanked by a "color guard," reads the eulogy for Vern the Mouse (lower right).
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Governor Schrieber Gives Rick Phelps a Signing Pen

Date: 05 02 1978
Description: Governor Martin Schreiber is shaking hands with Rick Phelps of the Youth Policy and Law Center as he is handing Phelps a pen used to sign AB 874, the Child...
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Mrs. Santa Claus at the Golden Age Club

Date: 12 19 1956
Description: A woman in costume is smiling and stands near two women who are sitting. One of the women is holding a wrapped present. Caption reads: "Mrs. Santa Claus vi...
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Independence Day

Date: 06 1968
Description: An older gentleman with a handlebar mustache is handing out American flags to Cub Scouts. Several Scouts are drinking bottles of soda pop.
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Story Time

Date: 1976
Description: A group of children is seated on the floor and in chairs, listening to a teacher reading during story time. One boy is lying on the floor. A nun is standin...
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IH Community Luncheon

Date: 12 17 1962
Description: Three women posing with wrapped gifts. Typewritten notes about event from J. W. Vance: "As the Group left the room at the end of the Luncheon program 1:45 ...
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Emil Rieve and William Pollock

Date: 1954
Description: Textile Workers Union of America [TWUA] General President Emil Rieve and Executive Vice President William Pollock posing shaking hands. A caption identifie...

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