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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: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard titled: "Clean Surroundings - Helps to Make Good Citizens and a Healthful City." Seven images illustrate cleanliness at different Inter... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster or signboard with the title: "Lunch Rooms - A Clean and Neat Place to Eat: Makes Food More Palatable." Includes images of lunch rooms or cafeterias ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The cover of a scrapbook made for Flora Dell Lake. Features a photograph of a small locomotive on a railroad track near a water tower. There are hand-drawn... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert Rauschenberg makes cyanotype art by shining a light over a nude female model who is lying on photosensitive blueprint paper. The print was to be use... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a ladder while installing what appears to be a backdrop in the studio on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. Several free-standing... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of mechanics working with a farm machinery at International Harvester's Hickory Hill Farm. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | In a studio "gag" portrait, two men sit at a table playing cards in front of a painted backdrop. Both are showing their hands and smoking cigars. Each man ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of a man posing in front of a painted backdrop. He has one hand on his hip and is wearing striped overalls and a hat. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three men, all seated in chairs around a table, drinking a beer from a bottle. The man on the right holds... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man standing with his hands behind his back. He is wearing work ... |
| Date: | 11 1993 |
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| 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.'" |
| Date: | 11 1993 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 09 1902 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| 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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