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| Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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| Description: | State Journal photographer Arthur M. Vinje, camera in hand, arrives at the scene of the fire at the Pyramid Motor Company, 434 West Gilman Street, to take ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert Rauschenberg makes cyanotype art by shining a light over a nude female model who is lying on photosensitive blueprint paper. The print was to be use... |
| Date: | 10 13 1951 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's Hal Faverty leaping into the air to make a finger-tip catch in the end zone during the Badgers' lone touchdown against Ohio State. A group of p... |
| Date: | 11 02 1950 |
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| Description: | The Madison West High School running back picks up a first down in their football game against Kenosha at Breese Stevens Field. Kenosha players are Bob Gil... |
| Date: | 11 10 1950 |
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| Description: | A scene from the Lapham School fifth grade production of Johnny Appleseed. Actors, left to right: Dennis Crary, Bob Alcumbrac (as Johnny), Anne Marie Teeg... |
| Date: | 11 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Three judges select the winning slides for the third annual color slide show held at the Community Center. Left to right are Aaron Bohrod, artist in reside... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett Studio Christmas portrait of two women, Miriam and Ruth, daughters of H.H. Bennett, and one man, Oliver Reese, posed with many cameras, some o... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of citizens of Akron welcoming city champions and visiting celebrities to the All-American Soap Box Derby in front of the Mayflower Hotel. A ... |
| Date: | 07 1951 |
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| Description: | 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion Warren Slightam about to compete in an exhibition race at the 1951 Madison soap box derby on Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 07 31 1952 |
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| Description: | View from above of police officers forming a line through striking workers near International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption reads: "Harvest... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve... |
| Date: | 03 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Harry Conley, left, Director of Athletics in the Superior school system, and Arthur M. Vinje, Wisconsin State Journal photographer, sitting on the bleacher... |
| Date: | 04 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Kermit "Kert" Bliss. He became director of the Madison Community Center after serving as acting director since August 1952. The Center's progr... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Photographer Dickey Chapelle sits with Algerian members of the National Liberation Front dressed as a member of the FLN. She is wearing a head scarf and ho... |
| Date: | 05 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Yvonne Egstad of Middleton takes a picture of two Sauk City fellow campers, Mary Jane Dickerson (left) and Anita Meyer. They were participating in the seve... |
| Date: | 06 19 1954 |
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| Description: | One of three negatives that make a panorama of University of Wisconsin graduates and families sitting in the stands at Camp Randall Stadium during graduati... |
| Date: | 12 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Hiroyoshi Yamamoto of Kurwe-shi, Japan (right) decorating a Christmas tree in the home of his hosts, the Dr. Frank K. Dean family. Tom (center) is standing... |
| Date: | 08 28 1955 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright visited the First Unitarian Society Meeting House, a building he designed, to be filmed by the Omnibus television program. In addition t... |
| Date: | 02 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Ed Schumann, owner of Ed Schumann and Associates, and Frank Pellitteri, the production manager at the business, set up an advertising shot for Red Dot Pota... |
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