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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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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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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...
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Caroline Keyser Preus's Funeral Wreath

Date: 1880
Description: Funeral wreath of Caroline Keyser Preus, the wife of Lutheran minister Herman Amberg Preus.
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Memorial Wreath with Woman's Portrait

Date: 1891
Description: Studio portrait of a memorial flower wreath. In the middle is a full-length portrait of a woman in a dress.
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Double Anchor Memorial

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Description: Studio portrait of memorial wreaths in the shape of anchors. The memorial includes a photographic portrait of a man, most likely John Best who died in 1890...
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W.T. Price Memorial Display

Date: 1897
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of memorial wreath grouping surrounding a draped portrait of W.T. Price. The wreaths have text which read: "...
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H.S. Manchester Inc., Photo Studio Display Window

Date: 11 20 1947
Description: H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, photo studio display window, featuring large holly wreath with center depicting Christmas morning scene and po...
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Memorial Cross

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Description: Memorial cross of flowers with a photographic portrait of a man with muttonchops in the middle.
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Bennett Studio Gift Shop

Date: 1945
Description: Gift shop at the Bennett Studio. The pictured individuals include Ruth Bennett Dyer and Oliver Reese. In addition to operating the photography studio, the...
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Morris Family Portrait

Date: 1912
Description: Informal portrait of the W.A.P. Morris family, with the patriarch seated at the head of the table at the left, and his children and grandchildren. Portrai...
Magazine or Periodical

Gaylord Nelson Newsletter

Date: 05 1970
Description: The front page of "The Gaylord Nelson Newsletter" announcing Earth Day 1970, with the headline: "Mass Movement Begins."
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Tom Roddy and Others with Ho-Chunk Artifacts

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Description: Two European American men posing sitting in front of two European American women and a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing. They are all wearing Ho-Chunk regali...
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Tom Roddy and Others Posing with Ho-Chunk Artifacts

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Description: Two European American men are posing sitting on the floor cross-legged and kneeling on the right, and two European American women and a Ho-Chunk woman posi...
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European American Woman and Children Dressed in Ho-Chunk Regalia

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Description: A European American woman and two boys posing sitting and a European American girl posing standing, all dressed in Ho-Chunk regalia. They are in a room dec...
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European American Woman and Children Dressed in Ho-Chunk Regalia

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Description: A European American woman and boy posing sitting, and a European American girl and boy posing standing. They are all dressed in Ho-Chunk regalia. They are ...
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European American Woman and Children Dressed in Ho-Chunk Regalia

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Description: European American woman and boy posing sitting, and a European American girl and boy posing standing, all dressed in Ho-Chunk regalia, in a room decorated ...
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European American Woman and Children Dressed in Ho-Chunk Regalia

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Description: European American woman posing sitting, and a European American girl and two boys posing standing, all dressed in Ho-Chunk regalia. They are in a room deco...
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Ho-Chunk Woman and Two European American Women in Ho-Chunk Dress

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Description: A portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing between two European American women also posing standing. All are wearing Ho-Chunk regalia, and are in a roo...
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1955
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...

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