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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
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| Description: | Sherman Booth (1812-1904), abolitionist editor and leader. |
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| Description: | A portrait of an elderly Susan B. Anthony. She is known primarily for her leadership in the women's rights movement, but was also an activist for other soc... |
| Date: | 01 08 1898 |
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| Description: | The last photograph taken of Frances Willard, a leader in the temperance movement and women's activist in the Methodist church. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Louis Hughes, seated and holding a book. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge wearing spectacles and smoking a cigar while attending a ceremony at Ripon College at which he received an ... |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Edward R. Murrow of CBS. On March 9, 1954, Murrow broadcast an episode of his "See It Now" series about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism, and on ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Sinclair Lewis seated at a typewriter with a cigarette in a holder in his mouth. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Jerome J. Moore outdoors at their home next to the Wisconsin Central Railroad tracks. Mr. Moore has a pipe in his mouth and is walking on crut... |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of James J. Hill wearing a hat, gloves, and a coat. He is holding a cigar. |
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| Description: | General MacArthur in uniform with corncob pipe. Unidentified military personnel are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of actor John Gilbert with a pipe in his mouth. |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actor Edward Everett Horton, posing with a cigarette. |
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| Description: | Union Refrigerator Transit Company officials pose in front of a railroad car in the snow. Governor Emmanuel Philipp is in the center of the line. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of William Hesseltine, University of Wisconsin History Professor (1932-1963) and President of the Wisconsin State Historical Society (19... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic sharing a toast with Senator Theodore Green, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
| Date: | 02 17 1872 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon depicting a woman on a rocky path carrying two children and a drunken husband on her back being tempted by Victoria Woodhull depicted as ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Fredric March, looking directly at the camera, poses with a pipe in his mouth for a publicity photograph for the film Nothing Sacred. |
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