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Rhudra Gets Surgery

Date: 12 13 1985
Description: Overhead view of Rhudra, an Indian rhinoceros, receiving surgery for a non-healing wound on the sole of his right, rear foot at the Milwaukee County Zoo. T...
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Naturalization

Date: 09 18 1984
Description: Jennie Youn Haeng Seider, 4, of Milwaukee, used her father Jeffrey Seider's back to display her new certificate of naturalization.
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Jogging Group

Date: 09 13 1968
Description: YMCA running club members take a run.
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Cecily Weaver Teaching Bridge

Date: 11 22 1932
Description: Cecily Weaver teaching bridge and the use of the Fulton Shur-Win Bidder to a table of four women. Sitting left to right are: Esther Hermsen, Inger Emery, G...
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U.W. Mechanical Engineering Building Construction

Date: 10 02 1930
Description: University of Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering Building, under construction, looking northeast, showing scaffolding around building and Findorff Builders s...
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Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita

Date: 1960
Description: Marcello Mastroianni, as the newspaperman Marcello Rubini, and Anita Ekberg, as Sylvie a Hollywood star, stand thigh-deep in the Trevi Fountain in Rome in ...
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Silo Filling

Date: 1980
Description: Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to...
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"Citizen Kane" Production Still

Date: 1941
Description: Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel...
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Barn Painting

Date: 09 25 1980
Description: Pastoral panoramic painting on the side of a barn. Two people on scaffolding can be seen working on the mural at right. A silo juts above the barn. There i...
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"Bigger Than Life" Movie Still

Date: 1956
Description: Dramaic scene still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "Bigger Than Life," featuring Walter Matthau (playing Wally Gibbs), James Mason (playing Ed Avery)...
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Nelson Campaigning for Obey

Date: 03 1969
Description: Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson speaking to an audience in northern Wisconsin in behalf of the congressional campaign of David R. Obey who is seated to Ne...
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John Gilbert's House

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of actor John Gilbert's Spanish-style house at 1400 Tower Grove Road. There is a tower on the hill in the background.
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Dixieland Theatre

Date: 1916
Description: The Dixieland Theatre in South Jacksonville, Florida, before it was converted by the Gaumont Company into a film studio.
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Mack Sennett Studios

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view of the Max Sennett Studios. There are many open-roofed studios with cloth diffusers. A huge sign reads: "Paramount-Comedies-Mack Sennett-Come...
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Ruins of Mount Zion Church

Date: 06 27 1964
Description: The Mt. Zion church burned down on June 17, 1964, prompting Freedom Summer volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner to travel to view...
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Albert Basserman, Actor

Date: 1940
Description: Albert Basserman is seen on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is walking up a flight of stairs in the rain holding an umbrella. A crowd of pe...
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Scene Still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated scene still for the film "Foreign Correspondent." Pedestrians are walking with umbrellas down the sidewalk in the rain. On the street people are r...
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Joel McCrea in "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: In this scene still from the film "Foreign Correspondent," Joel McCrea, wearing a dressing gown, prepares to climb out a window.
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Lunt and Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1942
Description: View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn....
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Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...

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