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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard titled: "Clean Surroundings - Helps to Make Good Citizens and a Healthful City." Seven images illustrate cleanliness at different Inter... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard with the title: "Lunch Rooms - A Clean and Neat Place to Eat: Makes Food More Palatable." Includes images of lunch rooms or cafeterias ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The cover of a scrapbook made for Flora Dell Lake. Features a photograph of a small locomotive on a railroad track near a water tower. There are hand-drawn... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a ladder while installing what appears to be a backdrop in the studio on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. Several free-standing... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men posed standing in a logging camp, displaying six teams of two oxen. One man is posed seated in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and a... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. One man is holding a cat, and there is a dog standing nearby. The photographers wagon i... |
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| Description: | Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing in a logging camp. Two men stand displaying two teams of two horses, and one man is dis... |
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| Description: | Group of men, women and children standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Some of the men are posed holding logging tools, and two o... |
| Date: | 11 1993 |
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| Description: | "High winds played havoc with the cross on St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Steeplejack, Tim McNitt, of Kiel was called in to rectify the 'leaning cross.'" |
| Date: | 11 1993 |
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| Description: | "Steeplejack, Tim McNitt, was asked to take some photos from the top of the steeple. This is the result obtained when he held a motorized camera with a 20m... |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | A stereograph made by Mathew Brady about two weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, showing his two assistants gazing eastward from the extreme right of the... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Twelve photographs and one letterhead are mounted on a board with captions. The photographs cover the time before and after a fire in 1909 when the company... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group portrait of five people, including three men, two women, and an infant, posing on the grass in a wooded area. In the background, on ... |
| Date: | 05 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Front page of 4-page brochure with description of photographic rules. Features a photograph of a man standing on top of a dump truck holding a shovel, whil... |
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