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Homer Bigart

Date: 1951
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times".
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail

Date: 03 15 1899
Description: Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph focusing on the journalists seated near the front of the room. During the 19th century, coverage of Capitol news ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Admirers

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Description: Frank Lloyd Wright and Mrs. Wright at a Madison event honoring him. They are looking at a model of the Wright-designed model of Monona Terrace. With them ...
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Important Interview

Date: 1947
Description: John J. McCoy, U.S. Commissioner in Germany being interviewed by Mutual news analyst Cecil Brown. Brown made his reputation during the post-World War II ye...
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Fredric March

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Description: Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown.
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Edward R. Murrow at OPC

Date: 12 27 1957
Description: Edward R. Murrow, standing near the banner, speaks to a special Overseas Press Club luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria honoring CBS correspondents. Immediatel...
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Tufty Friends

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Description: Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, a nationally prominent journalist, whose papers are part of the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society, chatting with Pr...
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Brown and Telex

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Description: Journalist Cecil Brown reading communication being printed on a telex machine.
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Cecil Brown

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of journalist Cecil Brown.
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Robert Kennedy in Hong Kong

Date: 1962
Description: Robert Kennedy, then attorney general, surrounded by young people during a visit to Hong Kong. Kennedy was traveling in Southeast Asia, and the tall white-...
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Visit to Clam Lake

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Project ELF activist Jerry Holter (left) and John Lavine, head of the Lavine Newspaper Groups based in Chippewa Falls, outside the Clam Lake facilities of ...
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Gates Birthday Celebration

Date: 1957
Description: Clough Gates, publisher of the "Superior Telegram," cutting a cake to celebrate his 80th birthday. Max Lavine stands in the middle background, and watching...
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Max Lavine

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Max Lavine, general manager of the "Superior Evening Telegram" and owner of two Wisconsin newspapers.
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Pioneer Pauline Frederick

Date: 03 1949
Description: Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome...
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Associated Press Office

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Description: The London office of the Associated Press, with Alvin Steinkopf working at his typewriter, center rear.
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Dessicated Cat Mascot, Anubis

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Description: Ellen MacQuarrie (later Ellen Wilson), a journalist at the "Milwaukee Journal" and the wife of Gordon MacQuarrie, looking at Anubis, the dessicated cat tha...
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Shaplen Arrives

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Description: Robert Shaplen, the tall man with the briefcase, being greeted at an airport in Southeast Asia. Shaplen, who was regarded as the dean of the American journ...
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Berlin Reporter

Date: 1940
Description: Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor...
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Alvin J. Steinkopf

Date: 1962
Description: Informal portrait of Associated Press journalist Alvin J. Steinkopf seated at his desk in the London bureau.
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Press photographers set up their equipment in the press area before they cover a visit by President Jimmy Carter. A scoreboard hangs on the wall in the bac...

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