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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A farmer smiling as he takes the wheel of his tractor. Behind him is a barn and silos. |
| Date: | 07 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Unretouched passport photograph in front of a painted backdrop of Frank Lloyd Wright. He is holding a cane on his left arm and has a hat on his lap. |
| Date: | 07 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Unretouched passport photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright. He is holding a cane under his left arm. |
| Date: | 07 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Two alternate views in front of a painted backdrop of Frank Lloyd Wright, seated, for an unretouched passport photograph. He is holding a cane in his left ... |
| Date: | 01 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Newly inaugurated Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. sits at his desk in the Governor's office. Behind him are several bouquets of flowers and a Wisconsin flag... |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its... |
| Date: | 09 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Bertha Elbel Rupp, assistant society editor, seated behind her desk at the "Wisconsin State Journal." |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Local fruit farmers Mr. and Mrs. Martin Kapec, Route 2, Madison, display a crate of home grown strawberries the size of golf balls. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Construction worker Buddis Stone at the site of the Mammoth Pool Dam along the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Stone bored holes for expl... |
| Date: | 04 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milwaukee Braves traveling secretary George Edward "Duffy" Lewis. After a notable major league career with the Red Sox, Yankees and Senators, L... |
| Date: | 06 1958 |
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| Description: | Journalist Rowland Evans, Jr., shortly before he began his partnership with Robert Novak. |
| Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Calvin Beverly, age 40, of 807 Mound Street. Beverly was one of seven employees of the Pyramid Motor Company, located at 434 West Gilman Street... |
| Date: | 04 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Noted Chicago artist Christian Abrahamson holds a palette and paintbrushes as he stands next to a portrait of the retired chief justice of the Wisconsin Su... |
| Date: | 04 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Martin Wolman, business manager of Madison Newspapers, Inc. |
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