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Fred Palmer Getting Shaved

Date: 1937
Description: Fred Palmer getting shaved by a man wearing a hat outdoors. Another person is standing in the background.
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Fred Palmer

Date: 1937
Description: Three-quarter length vignetted portrait of Fred Palmer. He is wearing a coat and a hat, and has a cigarette in his mouth.
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Frank Borzage on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Film director Frank Borzage and camera operator Joseph Biroc, along with other members of the film crew, are seen in the reflection of mirrors on the set o...
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"History Is Made at Night" Overhead Shot

Date: 1937
Description: View of the set of the 1937 film "History Is Made at Night" taken from above. The scene being shot takes place in a restaurant kitchen. The camera is focus...
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Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur on Set

Date: 1937
Description: Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur talk with director Frank Borzage on the set of the 1937 film "History Is Made at Night". Borzage sits in a chair while Boyer ...
Postcard

Anchor Inn, Pinewood Lodge

Date: 1937
Description: Text on front reads: "Anchor Inn, Pinewood Lodge, Rhinelander, Wis." A large log cabin, possibly for multiple guests, is surrounded by trees. Many of the w...
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Blockprint Unit: Designs for Draperies and Wall Hangings

Date: 1937
Description: Caption reads: "The designs for draperies and wall hangings are cut into linoleum and backed with heavy ply-wood".
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Blockprint Unit: Printing Material

Date: 1937
Description: Caption reads: "The material to be printed is stretched over a padded table". Another woman is working at a table in the background.
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Blockprint Unit: Inked Block

Date: 1937
Description: Caption reads: "The finished block is inked and carefully placed upon the cloth".
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Blockprint Unit: Imprint Secured by Pounding

Date: 1937
Description: Caption reads: "The imprint is secured by pounding upon the block with a wooden mallet".
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Blockprinting

Date: 1937
Description: A woman is printing material stretched over a padded table. Another woman is working at a table in the background.
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Block Printing: Completed Textile

Date: 1937
Description: Caption reads: "The textile is now completed -- ready to be delivered to some tax supported institution".
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Merle Patton and Dr. H.T. Sondergaard

Date: 1937
Description: Two men ---- one in a mailman's uniform ----- standing on either side of an oversized special pass to a screening of the film "The Life of Emile Zola" star...
Postcard

Souvenir Folder of Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1937
Description: Cover title of souvenir folder reads: "Souvenir folder of Superior, Wisconsin 17 Natural Color Views. Caption for this image reads: "Nite View of New $21,0...
Postcard

Souvenir Folder of Superior Wis.

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a souvenir folder of Superior. Caption on front reads: "Largest Iron Ore and Coal Docks in the World." A ship named "Ashcroft" is depicted l...
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Soren J. Uhrenholdt Speaking to 4-H Class

Date: 1937
Description: Soren Uhrenholdt is holding his hat as he stands amongst a group of 4-H children and young adults in a Sawyer County pine forest.
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Edward Alsworth Ross

Date: 1937
Description: Semi-profile portrait of UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ross sitting in a chair, with bookshelves in the background. Ross was the subject o...
Photograph

William Pollock

Date: 1937
Description: Portrait of William Pollock, a long-standing union official. Pollock was business agent for United Textile Workers (UTW) Local 25 from 1931-1937, when he b...
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William Pollock

Date: 1937
Description: Portrait of William Pollock, at the time we was manager of the Philadelphia Joint Board of the Textile Workers Organizing Committee.
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J.H. Ames

Date: 1937
Description: Waist-up portrait of Jesse Hazen "J.H." Ames, president of the River Falls Normal School (1917-1927), and its successor the River Falls State Teachers Coll...

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