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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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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 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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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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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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Photo Copy Service Building

Date: 06 20 1944
Description: Exterior view of the Photo Copy Service building at 211 West Mifflin Street, next to Pettersen's carpets and linoleum, 209 West Mifflin Street. Also shown ...
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Portable Confessional

Date: 02 18 1943
Description: Portable confessional, rear view, priest's side, taken in Photo Copy Service studio, 211 West Mifflin Street. Taken for Burgess Laboratory.
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State Office Building Construction

Date: 11 02 1930
Description: View of the State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction, from Lake Monona. The photographer's shadow and railroad tracks are in the foreg...
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Ansel Adams Working with an Enlarger

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams makes an adjustment to the exposure while making a print in the darkroom at his home.
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Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr.

Date: 1932
Description: Portrait of photographer Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr., a Waupun photographer best known for his "tall-tale" or "freak" postcards.
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Community Center Photographic Club

Date: 11 10 1949
Description: Three men, acting as judges for the Community Center Photographic color slide contest, view slides while seated at a table. They are, left to right: Robert...
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Identifying Union Activists

Date: 1948
Description: James Newman, public relations director of the Rath packing company, takes photographs of striking workers from a window of the company's factory.
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Hickory Hill Farm Photo Staff in Studio

Date: 1961
Description: A large group of photographers, filmmakers, and other individuals gathers for a portrait in International Harvester's Hickory Hill Farm photo studio.
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Matthew Witt's Photography Studio

Date: 1913
Description: Hand-colored exterior of Matthew Witt's photography studio. He is standing at the door with his hand on the doorknob. Photographic prints are hanging in th...
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Puss'n Boots Bronze Award

Date: 07 18 1958
Description: Charles B. Seals, and his father Bellamy, have received a citation from the Puss'n Boots bronze award committee. The citation resulted from pictures of the...
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Paul Vanderbilt and Thematic Panel

Date: 10 1984
Description: Paul Vanderbilt, the curator emeritus of Iconographic collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, poses in front of one of his Thematic Panel...
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Photographer in Studio

Date: 1910
Description: Full-length portrait of a man posed standing in front of a painted backdrop with a number of large format cameras and other photography equipment.
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Reierson Studio Storefront

Date: 09 1972
Description: View across sidewalk of the Reierson Photography Studio storefront, in its new location, 14 East Mifflin Street, between adjoining businesses. The Wisconsi...
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Reierson Studio Storefront

Date: 09 1972
Description: The Reierson Photography Studio storefront, in its new location, 14 East Mifflin Street, between adjoining businesses. The Wisconsin State Capitol is refle...

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