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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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Christopher Latham Sholes

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Description: Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter.
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Counting Pennies at the Bank

Date: 11 09 1955
Description: A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years.
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Portable Fan

Date: 06 14 1956
Description: Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool.
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Atomic Plant Demonstration

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Description: Elevated view of a demonstration of a nuclear reactor driven energy plant.
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Robot and Baby

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Description: An infant being pushed in a baby flyer (baby carriage) by a robot in Leeds, England.
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Family Cast

Date: 02 12 1963
Description: Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised.
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Kids with Calculator

Date: 05 19 1989
Description: Two young boys in a grocery store figuring out prices of food with a calculator.
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Water Skiing

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Description: Woman skiing behind a boat, with a man in the foreground standing in the boat near a Johnson outboard motor.
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Couple Looking at Record

Date: 11 10 1963
Description: A couple that used a "couple computer" that matched preferences choose a record.
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Maurice White and Farmer

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Description: Maurice White interviewing a farmer for radio broadcast.
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Elmer the Bull

Date: 1951
Description: Elmer, "husband" of Elsie the Cow, advertising mascot of the Borden Company, is shown with a young woman as he was being readied for participation as one o...
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Fred Bear and Deer

Date: 1941
Description: Bow-hunter Fred Bear poses with his bow and a deer carcass.
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1,000,000 Volt Coil

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Description: Workers construct a 1,000,000 volt coil at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company.
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Antenna Inside Radome

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Description: Giant 340 ton antenna inside radome. The housing at the left holds maser and other gear-enabling antenna to send signals up to the satellite and receive fa...
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Testing the Telstar Experimental Satellite

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Description: Three men testing the Bell System's Telstar experimental communications satellite at the Bell Telephone Laboratories before being sent to Cape Canaveral, F...
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Telstar Satellite First Orbit

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Description: The Bell System Telstar Satellite first orbit showing apogee and perigee.
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Telstar Orbit

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Description: Depiction of orbit of Telstar satellite when within range of Andover and English ground stations.
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Bevel Gear Manufacturing

Date: 03 13 1972
Description: Original Falk caption reads, "Largest bevel gears manufactured by Falk to date. This photograph was taken in the Heat Treat Department." Male employees in ...
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Union Center Inc., CIO

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Description: People walking up the steps under a large neon sign in front of a snowy Union Center Inc., CIO building.

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