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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Date: 1937
Description: Five Wisconsin men who fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. This was in Albacete, Spain. From left to right standing are: Fred P...
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Killing of Registre Gagnier

Date: 1940
Description: Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the Winnebago attack on the Gagnier homestead in 1827 and the killing of Registre Gagnier. The homestead w...
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Victory Garden Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in...
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Mary Ann Buckley

Date: 1985
Description: View from stage of a woman standing at a podium, with her back to the photographer. In front of her is a table stacked with cards or books, and an audience...
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Getting Cards Signed

Date: 1985
Description: A woman is standing on a sidewalk holding something in her hands that she is showing to two other women. Caption reads: "Getting cards signed in [Represent...

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