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Filter: Year of 1950-1959
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Chet Huntley, manning a portable television unit, for coverage of 1956 political conventions. |
| Date: | 01 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham. |
| Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young child, Frank Hill, walking the picket line at a strike with an older man. The adult's sign reads: "Construction Workers organize for hours, wages a... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of city traffic of bumper-to-bumper cars leaving Milwaukee County Stadium after the 1957 World Series. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Mr. Robot, a coin operated milk vending machine promoted by the Wisconsin Dairy Caravan, dispenses milk into a paper cup. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 09 19 1959 |
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| Description: | View towards a firefighter standing with his back to the camera as he is aiming a fire hose towards the flames. |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat. |
| Date: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Children enjoy cold treats while being entertained, as nuns and an adult male look on. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Jean Hoffman looks over a printed circuit board in the foreground, with a map of Madison, Wisconsin on the wall behind her. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A female artist sculpting a female figure from clay. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An apple-picker stands among the branches of a tree, on a ladder with a pouch slung over his shoulder and belted around his waist. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two men operate a machine that uses wires to make equal portions out of a large slab of butter. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the construction of the lakeshore dormitories, the recreation facilities and Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Chapel, from the front path leading to the Gothic-arched doorway. Trees line the left and right of the path. A cross on the roof can seen through the topmo... |
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