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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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Roundy and Children in Front of the Majestic Theater

Date: 08 18 1948
Description: From the left: Ray Rockow, manager of the Majestic Theater on King Street; Roundy, Wisconsin State Journal; and Cliff Harm, Montgomery-Ward and Co. ...
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Roundy Coughlin Receiving a New Car

Date: 12 01 1949
Description: A crowd gathers around Roundy Coughlin, Wisconsin State Journal columnist, as he receives a new car from the Rounders' Club.
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Korean War Opinion Poll

Date: 06 27 1950
Description: Journalist John Prindle, left, doing an on-the-street interview with Conrad Druse, veteran and University of Wisconsin graduate student, about his opinions...
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Pearl White and George Vaux Bacon

Date: 1915
Description: Silent film star Pearl White behind the wheel of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat roadster with journalist George Vaux Bacon sitting beside her. The photograph was mad...
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Roundy Coughlin with Parking Meter

Date: 07 12 1951
Description: Friday the 13th joke: "Friday the 13th won't come 'til they tear out the parking meters around the square and put in these babies, huh?" He was figuring on...
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Brown in Africa

Date: 07 1941
Description: This portrait of CBS reporter Cecil Brown, then based in Rome, was taken during his tour of North Africa. It was later used as the cover illustration for h...
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Mowrer-Cole Wedding

Date: 04 28 1939
Description: The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel...
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Greeting the Duchess

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Description: American journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty arriving in Seoul, Korea, at Kimpo (Gimbo) Airport, on a Northwest Orient Airlines airplane. Captions on album...
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Recording History

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Description: Journalist Cecil Brown, then with the Mutual Broadcasting Network, carrying the portable recorder that he used for interviewing while he was reporting on o...
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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-...
Book or Pamphlet

International C-1 Truck Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the half-ton, six-cylinder International C-1 truck. Includes a color illustration of men operating a motion picture ca...
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Henry J. McCormick

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: Henry J. McCormick, Wisconsin State Journal Sports Editor, stands beside an automobile before his departure for Bradenton, Florida to report on the M...
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David Schoenbrun

Date: 1967
Description: American journalist David Schoenbrun photographed during a two-week visit to North Vietnam.
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World War I Ambulance Man

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Description: Alvin J. Steinkopf, a member of Ambulance Company No. 125. A reporter for the "Evening Wisconsin," Steinkopf wrote stories about his experiences for that n...
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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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Hue after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Journalist Robert Shaplen, facing the camera, at a bombed bridge over the Perfume River at Hue, where crowds of pedestrians and cyclists were attempting to...
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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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Roadside Stop in Normandy

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: A roadside stop in Normandy, France. Two men are posing next to the parked jeep, which has "ADA" stenciled below the windshield. The man in front partially...
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Roadside Stop in France

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: A roadside stop in Normandy, France. Three men are standing with a jeep. From left is Robert Doyle, war correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal. The...

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