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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: | 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: | 09 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. |
| 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: | 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: | 09 10 1930 |
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| Description: | McVicar Photo Service booth at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) fall festival. |
| Date: | 09 10 1930 |
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| Description: | McVicar Photo Service booth at the ESBMA (East Side Business Men's Association) fall festival. Showing cameras. |
| Date: | 09 09 1929 |
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| Description: | McVicar Photo Service booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. Featuring the AGFA film, and several of his photographs. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Wittenberg Grays baseball team in uniform with balls, bats and gloves in foreground. Third player from the left is Melvin Schlytter (ca... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard titled: "Athletic Clubs - Work and Play Develop the Right Kind of Men." Images on the poster show International Harvester employees on ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard with the title: "Clubs - Fostered for Good Fellowship; Recreation for Good Health." promoting International Harvester's ideas on the im... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard with the title: "McCormick Club House - Here Physical, Mental and Moral Sides of Employee are Developed Equally." Includes images of th... |
| Date: | 07 04 1949 |
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| Description: | A man taking a picture of two women at the Vilas Park beach. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Copy negative from William J. Meuer Albums of Kate Whitney and Forrest Anderson ice skating. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a child as Cupid wearing wings and holding a bow and arrow, posed leaning against an owl and sitting on a tree stump. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the 1916 Baraboo basketball team, winners of the Wisconsin State Basketball Tournament held at Lawrence ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A model posed as an angel sits on the ground in front of a sylvan backdrop, warming her hands over a fire. She wears wings and a dress of diaphanous materi... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a young man in front of a painted backdrop wearing rubber boots holding his gun and a dead fox with his dog standing nearby. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Dolls from the collection of Alice Kent Trimpey arranged in the front window of the Trimpey Studio and antique shop at 128 Fourth Avenue. There is a minia... |
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