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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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Portable Confessional

Date: 02 18 1943
Description: Front view of a portable confessional, with kneeler. The photograph was taken in the Photo Copy Service studio, located at 211 West Mifflin Street.
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Microfilm Laboratory, State Office Building

Date: 02 11 1942
Description: Three men are making microfilm copies of birth records in the microfilm department at the Wisconsin State Office Building (Capitol Annex), 1 West Wilson St...
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Photo Copy Service

Date: 03 28 1941
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...
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Photo Copy Service Camera Room

Date: 07 22 1940
Description: Interior view of Photo Copy Service camera room, 206 East Main Street.
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Shooting a Negative

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Co. plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is making a halftone negative, the first step in making a photo engra...
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Palace Drug Store Window Display

Date: 12 06 1932
Description: Palace Drug Store, 114 State St., Dale Fink, president, window display with flashing sign (Kay Manufacturing Co.), "Developing and printing on Velox paper,...
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McVicar Photo Service Window Display

Date: 11 07 1929
Description: Homecoming window display at McVicar Photo Service, 723 University Avenue.
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Milwaukee Journal Photographer

Date: 1950
Description: Milwaukee Journal photographer with display of cameras and flash units. He is dramatically demonstrating the use of flash powder.
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Photographing a Grain Binder

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Description: A man photographs a grain binder at work in a field.
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Man Outdoors Taking Photograph

Date: 1912
Description: A man prepares a camera to take a photograph, while two other men stand behind him. The man is likely an International Harvester company photographer. The ...
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Man with Camera Near McCormick Works

Date: 08 08 1914
Description: A photographer is standing near a camera on the bank of the Chicago River. He likely works for International Harvester Company and appears to be photograph...
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Three Men in Photography Studio

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait of three standing men, two wearing matching straw hats, and vests with trousers, and the other holding a camera on a stool. They are posing...
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Photographic Remote Flash

Date: 03 13 1947
Description: June D. (Mrs. Sheldon) Wengel serving as a model for a remote flash tripped via a photo-electric cell invented in Madison by Sheldon Wengel and Howard La C...
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Field Photographer

Date: 1921
Description: A photographer, likely an employee of International Harvester, and his hand-crank motion picture camera standing in a field in front of man on top of a wag...
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Madison Youth Council Movie Makers

Date: 11 11 1947
Description: Four members of Madison Youth Council are shown lounging around a movie camera in a woodland setting. They were making a movie, "Make Way for Youth".
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Youth Journal Photograph

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: A young woman serving as the photographer's assistant is standing beside a woman sitting in a chair wearing a hat, and a Farm and Home Week name tag. She i...
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Valve Photography

Date: 12 20 1943
Description: R.G. Hill taking photographs in the engine testing laboratory. The original caption reads: "R.G. Hill, chief photographer at Gas Power Engineering Departme...
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Smelter Workers

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Description: Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them.
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International Harvester Photographer

Date: 1931
Description: A company photographer sets up his camera on top of a car to take a photograph in a field.

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