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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: | 12 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America, relaxing after a union meeting. |
| Date: | 02 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo... |
| Date: | 05 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Members of a musician's union playing cards together. |
| Date: | 09 26 1951 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal sports columnist, Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin and "character about town" relaxes on a park bench. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A photographer stands close to the Milwaukee Mile racetrack with camera poised to capture the action as the stock cars competing in the race speed by him. ... |
| Date: | 11 18 1950 |
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| Description: | A large group of Ohio Chemical and Surgical Equipment Company employees sitting at tables playing bingo at East High School, 2222 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 11 18 1950 |
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| Description: | A large group of Ohio Chemical and Surgical Equipment Company employees sitting at tables playing bingo at East High School, 2222 East Washington Avenue, a... |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of officers of the employee club sitting around game tables in the Pioneer Room at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, 122 West Main Street. |
| Date: | 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., speaks to a crowd in the grandstand at the Wisconsin State Fair. In the background, a photographer is taking his picture. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | As part of a statewide boycott of Wilson products, delegates to the State Federation of Labor in Cedar Rapids participate in an automobile parade. One car-... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks with a color illustration of a truck driver sitting in an easy chair with his feet propped up under the text "c... |
| Date: | 06 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Safety Patrol on Wisconsin boat at boat docks. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of one competitor parading her animal for the judges at the Southern Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition, while Alice in Dairylan... |
| 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: | 10 26 1957 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison's Danny Lewis narrowly escapes a tackler to score a touchdown vs. Ohio State in a game at Camp Randall Stadium. A large cro... |
| Date: | 02 18 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football star Captain Robert "Red" Wilson is recognized as the Big Ten Conference "Most Valuable Player" for 1949 and awarded the C... |
| Date: | 05 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Official 1950 Soap Box Derby wheels are now available to any boy wishing to enter the 12th annual Wisconsin State Journal-Capital garage event. Charles Wh... |
| Date: | 05 29 1950 |
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| Description: | 101 Madison Newspapers, Inc. carrier boys from Madison and southwestern Wisconsin stand by three charter buses before the start of their trip to the Memori... |
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