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Photographers Learn How to Shoot a Crime Scene

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Description: Elevated view of photographers being instructed on how to shoot a crime scene. A teacher is demonstrating photographic techniques while a group of students...
Photograph

Pharmacies U.S.A.

Date: 09 10 1960
Description: This exhibit entitled "Pharmacies U.S.A." greeted nearly one-half million visitors at the main entrance of the U.S. Pavilions at the International Trade Fa...
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Video Portraits

Date: 04 02 1987
Description: Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
Photograph

1950's Memories

Date: 07 15 1987
Description: A woman finishes a display of Bay View High School photographs from the 1950s as part of an any-year reunion at the Festa Italiana on the Summerfest ground...
Photograph

Curtiss Aviation School

Date: 1912
Description: Photo opportunity day at the Glenn Curtiss School of Aviation on North Island in San Diego Harbor. The man in the lower left corner is thought to be Glenn ...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club

Date: 12 20 1935
Description: Five men from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club. They are looking at photographs in Porter Butts' office at the Memorial Union.
Photograph

Informal Student Photo Montage

Date: 03 24 1947
Description: Informal Student Photo Montage taken for Brock Engraving.
Poster

Health and Safety Poster Showing Employee Education

Date: 1916
Description: Poster or signboard describing educational classes and apprenticeship opportunities for International Harvester employees. The poster includes images of an...
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

Magda Herzberger Lecturing

Date: 11 06 1980
Description: Magda Herzberger points to a photographic image projected onto a screen while giving a lecture about the Holocaust at Monroe High School.
Poster

University of Wisconsin YMCA Photography Center

Date: 02 18 1971
Description: Poster advertising photograph classes at the University of Wisconsin YMCA. A camera case with a camera, light meter, film, and lens tissue is prominately d...
Photograph

Children Viewing Stereographs

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Description: Group of children at the Cherry Street branch of the Evansville Public Library using steropticons to view stereograph images. Bookshelves line the back wal...
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Photography Students in the Studio

Date: 11 14 1961
Description: Students work in a studio on their individual projects for a photography class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
Postcard

Hayward Indian School Students

Date: 1889
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of five Hayward Indian School students, possibly a basketball team, from L to R: John C...
Photograph

Children's Class of the Milwaukee Turners

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Description: Children’s class of the Milwaukee Turners, gathered outside in a park. George Brosius appears on the platform and several people are wearing band uniforms....
Photograph

Genevieve Milward

Date: 06 1921
Description: Full-length studio graduation portrait of Genevieve Milward (later McVicar), (1902-1987) of Madison, Wisconsin, standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sh...
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Unidentified Classroom

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Description: Interior view of a classroom. Identified as a classroom in the school building built in 1872.
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State 4-H Photography Project

Date: 06 24 1958
Description: Georgia Dietrich, Janesville, and Marie Awieg, Watertown, both active in 4-H activities, examining the photography exhibit in the Memorial Union. Photograp...

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