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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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Photographer Setting Up Outdoor View of IHC McCormick Works

Date: 08 06 1914
Description: Rear view of company photographer setting up shot of IHC's McCormick Works docks from across the waterfront. Two men are in a long wooden boat, with the na...
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Holt Crawler at Winnipeg Tractor Contest

Date: 1911
Description: Men in suits and hats follow along as a man plows with a Holt crawler tractor at the Winnipeg tractor contest in Canada. Another man in the foreground is p...
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Photographer at Cotton Harvest

Date: 1921
Description: A cameraman films a man stooping to pick cotton while other people are looking on from the background.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: H.H. Bennett Pulling an Oar

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett pulling an oar on a Wisconsin raft.
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Industrial 10-20 Tractor with Grader

Date: 11 14 1925
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with a grader to smooth a dirt road. Shadows of the photographer and the camera standing on a tripo...
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Women Assembling Torpedoes

Date: 1943
Description: Three women work on a line of torpedoes at an International Harvester factory. The women wear uniforms and hats embroidered with the IHC logo. There is a m...
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Robert Rauschenberg Making a Print

Date: 1951
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...
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Man in Washroom

Date: 09 04 1923
Description: A man wearing overalls washing his hands in a sink in a farmhouse washroom. There is a reflection of a man in the mirror over the sink, who appears to be u...
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Campaign at Widmer Cheese

Date: 1972
Description: "As Mayor John Lindsay leaves the bus, he is mobbed by onlookers, and greeted by John Widmer."
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Budget Conference

Date: 1979
Description: An emergency budget cutting session, under the watchful eye of the press. Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey is at the far right of the table. Opposite hi...
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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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Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
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Cardinal Francis Spellman

Date: 1946
Description: Cardinal Spellman stands with hat in hand looking off to his right. His full body and Cardinal robes are visible. In the left third of the image, a photogr...
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Campaign Shoot

Date: 1994
Description: Filming a campaign spot for Congressman David R. Obey (left), probably in the Wausau Family Practice Center. Health care and its associated costs were an i...
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New Guinea Agrees with War Correspondents

Date: 11 01 1942
Description: War correspondents, whose typewriters and cameras keep the world informed of action in New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), live together in a large ...
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Dick Hanley

Date: 1944
Description: Casual portrait of photographer Sergeant Dick Hanley, smiling broadly and perched on the spare tire of a jeep, of YANK Army Weekly magazine. In his ...
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Farmhands and Cattle in a Farmyard

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Description: Group portrait over fence of two men, a woman, and a boy posing in a farmyard with cattle and a team of oxen. In the background are farm buildings and a ph...
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4,000,000th Truck, Springfield Works

Date: 08 22 1966
Description: Workers, managers, and officials look on as the 4,000,000th truck produced at Springfield Works is celebrated.
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Man Using Binder in Field near Lake

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards man using horse-drawn binder in a field. Two other people are standing in the field, and two horses are standing on the far left....

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