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Portable Confessional

Date: 02 18 1943
Description: Portable confessional, rear view, priest's side, taken in Photo Copy Service studio, 211 West Mifflin Street. Taken for Burgess Laboratory.
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Portable Confessional

Date: 02 18 1943
Description: Front view of a portable confessional, with kneeler. The photograph was taken in the Photo Copy Service studio, located at 211 West Mifflin Street.
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Photo Copy Service Camera Room

Date: 07 22 1940
Description: Interior view of Photo Copy Service camera room, 206 East Main Street.
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McVicar Photo Service Window Display

Date: 11 07 1929
Description: Homecoming window display at McVicar Photo Service, 723 University Avenue.
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Mapleside

Date: 1970
Description: Mapleside, a historic home on University Avenue, being demolished. It is the future location of Burger King.
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 1951
Description: 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion Warren Slightam about to compete in an exhibition race at the 1951 Madison soap box derby on Gorham Street.
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Forest Middleton in Tenney Park

Date: 1910
Description: Forest Middleton sits with his camera beside him on a park bench near the lagoon in Tenney Park. An arched bridge is visible through the trees.
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Witt Photographic Studio Interior

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Description: Matthew Witt stands next to one of his cameras in the interior of his photographic studio.
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Matthew Witt Posing with Camera

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Description: Photographer Matthew Witt poses with one of his cameras, holding the shutter release. It is placed on a table with a fringed tablecloth. He is wearing a su...
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Christmas with Foreign Students

Date: 12 14 1954
Description: Hiroyoshi Yamamoto of Kurwe-shi, Japan (right) decorating a Christmas tree in the home of his hosts, the Dr. Frank K. Dean family. Tom (center) is standing...
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Frank Lloyd Wright at the Unitarian Meeting House

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright (near the center of the image) and friends touring the grounds of the First Unitarian Society meeting house. In the background is the T...
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Taliesin Fellowship Choir

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright visited the First Unitarian Society Meeting House, a building he designed, to be filmed by the Omnibus television program. In addition t...
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Frank Lloyd Wright on the Grounds of the Unitarian Meeting House

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright on the grounds of the First Unitarian Society meeting house. Wright was being filmed for the Omnibus television program. The woman with...
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WHA-TV Program

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Description: Doris Platt (standing) and three other people, possibly discussing the script of a program on WHA-TV. Artifacts line shelves behind the people in a country...
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Madison Women Host Television Shows

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. Jeanne Parr, also known as Jeanne Noth, ho...
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Obey Photo Shoot

Date: 01 1969
Description: A photo shoot for David R. Obey's first campaign for Congress picturing him as assistant majority leader with Majority Leader Bob Huber (partially obscured...
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We Saw You . . . at Lutheran Conference

Date: 01 28 1959
Description: Thousands of Lutherans attend the National Lutheran Evangelism conference held in Madison at the Dane County Fairgrounds. The conference has its own public...
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Shooting Session

Date: 1962
Description: John Newhouse, staff photographer for the "Wisconsin State Journal," in a “shooting session” with model Jean Harris. Ms. Harris is, for some unexplained re...
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Snow Study of Main Hall

Date: 03 30 1900
Description: Winter scene near Main Hall (Bascom Hall) drive on the University of Wisconsin campus. View looking uphill towards two men standing on and near a sidewalk....

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