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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: | 11 1964 |
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| 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,... |
| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Sons of the American Legion in formation outside the Witt Studio. Two of them hold flags. Names are (left to right), Don Frank, Jerry Zander, Ralph Meyer, ... |
| Date: | 11 11 1928 |
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| Description: | McVicar's Photo Service window display during University of Wisconsin-Madison homecoming. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1984 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 04 1929 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 07 12 1929 |
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| Description: | Cameraman filming a farmer on a McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular tractor with attached cultivator as three men look on. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The business card of Waukesha photographer Warren O'Brien, a pioneer in aerial photography in Wisconsin. The illustration shows him sitting on the wing of ... |
| Date: | 07 27 1988 |
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| Description: | Vintage aircraft always attract attention. In 1988 on their way to the EAA convention, the national organization of owners of World War II trainers made a ... |
| Date: | 08 1945 |
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| Description: | The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Super Fortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This photograph was taken by Al... |
| Date: | 09 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., window #7, "Were you a September baby?" 14 photographic portraits on display for Photo Studio, Second Floor. |
| Date: | 03 28 1941 |
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| Description: | Photo Copy Service, 206 East Main Street, with "Camera Fans" window display of photographic equipment and supplies and Little Technical Library books on ph... |
| Date: | 10 30 1936 |
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| Description: | Homecoming display window at McVicar Photo Service, 751 University Avenue, featuring Wisconsin vs. Chicago football game with advertising for Agfa film. Al... |
| Date: | 05 05 1936 |
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| Description: | McVicar Photo Service window display featuring C.U.N.A. (Credit Union National Association) magazine "The Bridge, Credit Union National Magazine, uses McVi... |
| Date: | 12 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Palace Drug Store, 114 State St., Dale Fink, president, window display with flashing sign (Kay Manufacturing Co.), "Developing and printing on Velox paper,... |
| Date: | 11 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Homecoming window display at McVicar Photo Service, 723 University Avenue. |
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