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St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Date: 11 1993
Description: "High winds played havoc with the cross on St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Steeplejack, Tim McNitt, of Kiel was called in to rectify the 'leaning cross.'"
Photograph

St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Date: 11 1993
Description: "Steeplejack, Tim McNitt, was asked to take some photos from the top of the steeple. This is the result obtained when he held a motorized camera with a 20m...
Photograph

Union Breastworks on Culp's Hill

Date: 07 1863
Description: A stereograph made by Mathew Brady about two weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, showing his two assistants gazing eastward from the extreme right of the...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
Photograph

Strawberry Picking in Alabama

Date: 05 09 1902
Description: Outdoor group portrait of chidren and adults, standing in the strawberry field of Paul C. Goetsch after picking strawberries. Four people are holding crate...
Historical Object

J.J. Findorff & Sons

Date: 1914
Description: Twelve photographs and one letterhead are mounted on a board with captions. The photographs cover the time before and after a fire in 1909 when the company...
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait

Date: 
Description: Stereograph of a group portrait of five people, including three men, two women, and an infant, posing on the grass in a wooded area. In the background, on ...
Photograph

Madison Newspapers New Photoengraving Lab

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi...
Book or Pamphlet

How to Take Pictures of Motor Trucks

Date: 1938
Description: Front page of 4-page brochure with description of photographic rules. Features a photograph of a man standing on top of a dump truck holding a shovel, whil...

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