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Helen King in New Rubber Bathing Suit

Date: 01 31 1934
Description: Helen King, side view, modeling a 1934 rubber bathing suit, made by U.S. Rubber Co. She is also wearing a bathing cap and sandals, and is holding an inflat...
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Portrait of Brooks McCormick

Date: 1976
Description: Portrait of Brooks McCormick (1917-), an International Harvester executive. Brooks McCormick began his career with IH in 1940, serving throughout the decad...
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Breaker Boy

Date: 1902
Description: Andrew Chippa hired on with Markle & Co., miners of anthracite coal to pay off his father's debt of $54 to the company store since his father's death in th...
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Veteran Butcher

Date: 09 08 1956
Description: Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat.
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Harry O. Bercher

Date: 1965
Description: Portrait of Harry O. Bercher (1906-1997), International Harvester executive. Bercher began working for IH in 1928. In 1945 he became General Manager of the...
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Warren J. Hayford

Date: 1979
Description: Portrait of Warren J. Hayford, an International Harvester executive. Hayford was elected President and Chief Operating Officer of the company on June 15, 1...
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Frank W. Jenks

Date: 1960
Description: Portrait of Frank W. Jenks, an International Harvester executive. Jenks started working for the company as a clerk in 1914. After a lengthy career with the...
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Archie F. McCardell

Date: 1975
Description: Portrait of Archie F. McCardell, an International Harvester executive. McCardell, former President of Xerox Corporation in 1971, was elected President and ...
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Shy Guy

Date: 02
Description: Crowned queen and king of Valentine's Day celebrate over a card.
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Dressed for a Night Out

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Description: A young woman wearing a formal gown and mink stole looks at a portrait of a woman while sitting on a couch, as if waiting to go out for the evening.
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Printed Circuit Board

Date: 1950
Description: Jean Hoffman looks over a printed circuit board in the foreground, with a map of Madison, Wisconsin on the wall behind her.
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Fire Chief William Thomas Fish

Date: 1868
Description: William Thomas Fish, who served as Madison's fire chief, 1867-1868. Although posed for a formal studio portrait, Fish is wearing his uniform and hat and h...
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Wisconsin Assembly of 1880

Date: 1880
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man.
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Five Cent Beer

Date: 08 20 1963
Description: Knights of Columbus member celebrates at an annual "gay nineties" party. He stands next to a sign that advertises beer at five cents a glass.
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Marine Captain Joseph McCarthy

Date: 1944
Description: Joseph R. McCarthy in his Marine Corps uniform at the time of his first campaign for the United States Senate. He is holding a piece of his campaign litera...
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Joseph McCarthy

Date: 1946
Description: Joseph McCarthy at the time of his election victory over Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., in the Republican primary.
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Abraham Lincoln

Date: 02 09 1864
Description: Formal portrait of Abraham Lincoln, seated.
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The Earliest Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

Date: 1848
Description: Studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the original daguerreotype owned by his son, Robert T. Lincoln.
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Fire Company

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait of the Madison Fire Department, consisting of 17 individual oval portraits and the station on Webster Street.
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Abraham Lincoln

Date: 06 03 1860
Description: Quarter-length profile portrait of Abraham Lincoln.

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