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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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Christopher Latham Sholes

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Description: Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter.
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Homer Bigart

Date: 1951
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times".
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Richard T. Ely

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait of Richard Ely seated in a chair wearing a suit and pince-nez.
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La Follette's Labor Day Address

Date: 1924
Description: Independent presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette, Sr., standing behind a radio microphone delivering a Labor Day address.
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Charles Crownhart

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Description: Portrait of Chas Crownhart, a member of the Industrial Commission from May 4, 1911 to August 12, 1915.
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L.C. Bates

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of L.C. Bates, editor and publisher of the the "Arkansas State Press," a crusading Little Rock newspaper and the husband of the Ark...
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Speidel and Milwaukee County Zoo Model

Date: 02 20 1954
Description: Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo...
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Counting Pennies at the Bank

Date: 11 09 1955
Description: A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years.
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Alimony Payment

Date: 09 19 1958
Description: County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband.
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Atomic Plant Demonstration

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Description: Elevated view of a demonstration of a nuclear reactor driven energy plant.
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Locomotive Artifacts

Date: 03 29 1958
Description: A young boy rings a locomotive bell. Other artifacts of locomotive history are on the table before him with members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Nationa...
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Season Ticket Sorting

Date: 09 25 1956
Description: A man and two women with piles of paper tickets being sorted for the upcoming theater season at the Fred Miller theater.
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Henry M. Youmans

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Description: Henry M. Youmans. Bottom of photographic halftone is inscribed: "Very Truly Yours, Henry M. Youmans."
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Francke at Exhibit

Date: 1955
Description: Pharmacist Donald Francke and a colleague examine a pictorial exhibit titled "Pharmacy's History: As an Organized, Active Force, Internationally". The exh...
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Andrew Carnegie

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Andrew Carnegie.
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Alexander Graham Bell

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Alexander Graham Bell.
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Toy Chimp Robot

Date: 06 06 1963
Description: Toy distributors for Ideal Toy Corporation introduce a new toy line to dealers.
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10,000th International Scout Rolls off Assembly Line

Date: 05 1961
Description: The 10,000th International Scout built by IHC's motor truck division is driven off the final assembly line at the Fort Wayne plant by D.F. Kuntz, Divisiona...
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International Harvester Manager with Iowa Governor Herring

Date: 11 04 1935
Description: International Harvester assistant manager W.A. Riggs pointing out the features of an International truck to Iowa Governor Clyde Herring, possibly in the di...

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