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Farm Family
1929
Alvin Steinkopf (left), a Milwaukee journalist, dressed for work on the farm of his parents, Mathilda and Oscar Steinkopf. The Steinkopfs farmed 40 acres near Luck.
Feeding the Chickens
1929
Oscar Steinkopf feeding the chickens on his 40-acre farm near Luck. Feeding the chickens was traditionally considered women's work and perhaps Steinkopf was doing this for the benefit of his new da...
Alvin J. Steinkopf
1962
Informal portrait of Associated Press journalist Alvin J. Steinkopf seated at his desk in the London bureau.
Funny Papers and Alvin Steinkopf
circa 1930-1939
Still wearing his pajamas, "Milwaukee Sentinel" editor Alvin Steinkopf reads the newspaper. The popular comic strip, "Gasoline Alley," can be seen on the back of the section he is holding. This ph...
Viennese Coffee
1935
Irene Steinkopf, wife of Associated Press foreign correspondent Alvin J. Steinkopf and a former Milwaukee journalist, tastes her first Viennese coffee with whipped cream and rolls.
Berlin Reporter
1940
Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor, when all of the American journalists and...
