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| Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milo Milton Quaife (1880-1959), serving as director and editor from 1914 to 1920. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type windsled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-E... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Indianapolis Works, an International Harvester engine factory. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Virginia and Clinton Jencks on the set of "Salt of the Earth". |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Henrietta Williams as Teresa Vidal addressing a Union meeting in "Salt of the Earth". |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Willie Andazola (left) and Gary Alderette (right) in a jail scene in the film "Salt of the Earth." |
| Date: | 08 30 1953 |
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| Description: | View from the beach of people swimming, playing in the sand, and sunbathing. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A group of carpenters pose in front of an unfinished building. The caption reads "Carpenters union donate wages to community fund". |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Warren Spahn, famous left-handed pitcher of the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, completes a pitch to the batter. |
| Date: | 03 1953 |
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| Description: | A sleek, deluxe sleeping railroad passenger car made of high-strength, low-alloy steel. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Railroad superdome passenger car passing through the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 04 25 1953 |
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| Description: | A mushroom cloud from possibly Yucca Flats, Nevada where there was a nuclear bomb test. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Farmer cultivating a field with a McCormick Farmall Cub tractor. The color photograph was likely taken for advertising purposes at Hinsdale Farm, near Inte... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a farmer plowing with a Farmall Super M tractor. |
| Date: | 01 1953 |
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| Description: | Joseph (Joe) McCarthy is seen here with his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, whom he hired on the advice of J. Edgar Hoover. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Donald Francke, representing the American Association of Pharmacy, stands to the right of one of the officers from the British Pharmaceutical Association a... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View towards a farmer in a field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super H tractor and attached four-row cultivator. Farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View towards a man cultivating a field with a Farmall Super H tractor and cultivator with farm buildings in the background. The photograph may have been ta... |
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