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Production Line Worker

Date: 1935
Description: A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs.
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Students in front of School

Date: 1935
Description: Group portrait of graduating students and teachers in front of a brick school building. There are twenty-seven women wearing dresses and three men wearing ...
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John Gilbert and Marlene Dietrich

Date: 1935
Description: Actor John Gilbert sits next to Marlene Dietrich at a party thrown by Clifton Webb. They are both in formal dress. There are empty dinner plates and a bask...
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Arlene Elmer

Date: 1935
Description: Arlene Annette Elmer, 14, poses with three of her drawings alongside the Farmer's Grove School. Her teacher wrote on the reverse of this photograph that sh...
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Girl with Guitar

Date: 1935
Description: Arlene Elmer, 14, poses outside the Farmer's Grove School with a guitar. On the reverse of the photograph is written "This pupil is leader in plays and gam...
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Esther A. Elmer

Date: 1935
Description: Esther Elmer, 20, poses with jars of fruits and vegetables which she has canned. A fancy carpet is hanging behind her as a backdrop. She wrote on the rever...
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Couple Standing on a Porch

Date: 1935
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Stewart standing on the porch of their home. The dwelling and porch railing are built of stone and mortar.
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William F. Petersen M.D.

Date: 1935
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Dr. William F. Petersen (1887-1950). He is wearing a dark suit with a vest and necktie. Dr. Petersen, with his wife, Alm...
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Chester P. Gross

Date: 1935
Description: Indoor portrait of Chester P. Gross, seated in a chair at a desk. He is writing in a notebook with a pencil. Gross photographed the Wisconsin State Capitol...
Postcard

Point Henry

Date: 1935
Description: A woman in a light-colored dress is standing at the foot of the steps to a rustic cabin. She is holding a baby bottle and feeding a fawn. The shoreline alo...
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Tour at Game Farm

Date: 1935
Description: A well-dressed group of men, women and children have gathered on the lawn near one of the dormitories at the State Game Farm. A description on the reverse ...
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George W. Brown

Date: 1935
Description: Waist-up outdoor portrait of a Native American man. He is wearing a plaid jacket over a dark-colored shirt. There appears to be construction in progress be...
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Medicine Man

Date: 1935
Description: A waist-up informal portrait of Match-o-ka-mah, described on the reverse of the photograph as "Medicine Man and Keeper of the Sacred Drum of the Wisconsin ...
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River View

Date: 1935
Description: View towards an unidentified woman sitting and facing away from the camera to take in the view of the St. Croix River from a high rock formation. The bridg...
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Three Men Posing with Highway Signs

Date: 1935
Description: Three men are standing and posing with Minnesota highway signs near a post and cable guard rail. US 61 and US 14 are on two signs. They men are wearing mot...
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At the Boathouse

Date: 1935
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder posing in front of the original boathouse of Villa Henrietta on Pine Lake. They are, from left,...
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Two Women

Date: 1935
Description: Two well-dressed women, possibly Amelia Brumder Mayer, left, and Ida Brumder Merker, right, sitting in easy chairs in the home of their younger brother, He...
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Tunnel Tree

Date: 1935
Description: The three children of Herbert P. and Margaret Bouer Brumder are posing on and near the family's 1935 Oldsmobile sedan, which is parked in a tunnel built th...
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El Capitan

Date: 1935
Description: The photographer's wife, Margaret Bouer Brumder, is sitting on a low stone wall at an overlook in Yosemite National Park, with the granite formation El Cap...

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