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| Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976. |
| Date: | 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Moving a very large boulder with a bulldozer during construction of Highway 94 in Waukesha County. |
| 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: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Women preparing food for an annual Norwegian church supper at the Trinity Lutheran Church. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Two boys on the class-C scow sailboat "Bobalong III," with one boy balancing off the side while standing with one leg on the bilge keel. |
| Date: | 11 20 1959 |
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| Description: | Frazzle ice (snow floating in water) on the Mississippi River near Alma. |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro... |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | Funeral procession of Frank Lloyd Wright to Unity Chapel Cemetery. His body is carried in a horse-drawn vehicle with a group of people marching behind. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the funeral procession of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with Taliesin seen in the center background. Following the farm wagon hearse are ... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Filling station sign reading: "smile," purposely put upside down. A young woman is bending over to read it. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Actor John Wayne chats with driver Jim De Shon in an International Travelall sound truck on the set of "The Horse Soldiers". Owned by Goldwyn Studios and h... |
| Date: | 07 23 1959 |
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| Description: | "Lights On" sign at the Starlite, a drive-in movie theatre. |
| Date: | 07 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the ticket booth at the Starlite Theatre, a drive-in movie theatre. |
| Date: | 07 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Daylight view of the movie screen at the Starlite, a drive-in movie theater. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a farmer working in the field with a Farmall Cub tractor and attached cultivator. |
| Date: | 04 1959 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of 4-H youth operating a Farmall 340 tractor with mounted plow. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View towards a farmer on a Farmall Cub tractor with attached cultivator. |
| Date: | 04 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali, (white trunks) fighting Amos Johnson in the 178 pound final of the Pan-American Gam... |
| Date: | 02 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Language teachers listening to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College. |
| Date: | 03 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Spectators view paintings by Paul Gaugin at the opening of an art exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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