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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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Dickey Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 11 1964
Description: Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,...
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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...
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Photographers at the Strobo Research Lab

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Description: Photographers demonstrating strobe light functions at Frank Scherschel's Strobe Research Lab. Frank Scherschel is in the back on the righthand side, wearin...
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Photographer J. Robert Tayor

Date: 1928
Description: Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c...
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Fall Festival Entertainers

Date: 09 08 1930
Description: Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival.
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Woman at Traveling Photographer's Wagon

Date: 1890
Description: A woman, possibly the daughter of C.R. Monroe, holding up an image of Black River Falls Main Street at the back of a traveling photographer's wagon.
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Photographer on International C-1 Truck at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 1934
Description: Photographer from Kaufmann and Fabry on top of an International C-1 truck at the "A Century of Progress" Worlds Fair. Kaufmann and Fabry were the official ...
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Beach Toss

Date: 08 12 1984
Description: A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe...
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Pillar Rock, Fort Danger

Date: 07 1873
Description: Adams and Juneau Counties. Pillar Rock, Fort Danger. There is a man with an 8 x 10 camera in the foreground.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1433: A Cold Morning

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Description: Stereograph of five people huddled under blankets on a raft. The shadow of a camera and the photographer are in the foreground.
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Tourists at Cold Water Canyon

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Description: Unidentified group of tourists posing standing in Cold Water Canyon. There is a man in the background on the left with a camera.
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Albert Hansen

Date: 1910
Description: Self-portrait of Albert Hansen.
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J.M. Turner and Company, Railroad Photographer's Car

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Description: Three men posing with the J.M. Turner and Company Railroad Photographer's Car.
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H.H. Bennett and Tent

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Description: H.H. Bennett boat, with a dark tent and eighteen-by-twenty-two camera at a riverbank. An assistant is reclining on the edge of the river next to the boat.
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H.H. Bennett and Camera Near Steamboat Rock

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Description: H.H. Bennett with camera near Steamboat Rock. There is a man on shore reading, and a woman in a canoe at the edge of the river.
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H.H. Bennett with Wet Plate Outfit

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Description: Studio Portrait; H.H. Bennett with wet plate outfit.
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Cameraman Filming Tractor in Action

Date: 02 04 1929
Description: Cameraman riding on a platform pulled by a McCormick-Deering tractor. The man appears to be filming the tractor while it is in motion.
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Cameraman Films Farmall Tractor in Field

Date: 07 12 1929
Description: Cameraman filming a farmer on a McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular tractor with attached cultivator as three men look on.
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Photographer Capturing Repairmen at Work

Date: 11 09 1928
Description: View towards a photographer or an assistant holding a flashbulb as a photograph is taken of repairmen working on tractors in the shop of an International H...

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