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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil, and other officials touring the Allis-Chalmers plant. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Farmer Leo Sucharski on his new WD-6 diesel tractor. Mr. Sucharski is talking to C.A. Reef, an International Harvester farm equipment dealer from Gasport. ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a hallway in the S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Spring Bank monastery. Man kneeling in from of one of the Stations of the Cross. This is probably part of the Cistercian monastery. Caption reads: "Station... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The photographer holding a large Northern Pike and smoking a pipe in a living room. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertisement produced for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer featuring a man wearing a suit and hat, supposedly at a sports event, excitedly holding a cup of beer. Th... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Leo Kehl. It is inscribed, "To Marion Hughes, May you always be happy to the dancing profession. Your teacher, Leo Kehl". |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Madison magician Ben Bergor, standing in the trunk, and his wife, Alvina, standing nearby, getting ready to perform an amazing escape act. The act had Berg... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Formal group portrait of the United States Supreme Court with Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) seated in the middle of the front row. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Sales flyer advising International truck dealers how to compete against used truck sales. Includes cartoon illustrations of a man ordering another to leave... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Construction crew on Kastenmeier farm. They are standing at the top of a silo they are building. A barn is on the left and a shed is on the right. Names fr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man posed next to a truck hauling the world's biggest cheese, named "Goliath" by The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture. Probably taken at the Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of actor Joel McCrea for the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is wearing a suit and tie with a handkerchief in the breast pocke... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of Alfred Hitchcock sitting and sketching a storyboard on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." Three men and a woman stand a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Alfred Hitchcock is seen walking on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is wearing a suit and a trench coat and is walking towards the camera. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Alfred Hitchcock stands with Joel McCrea and another man on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." McCrea wears a suit, trench coat and bowler; the o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Alfred Hitchcock stands on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He has his left hand in his pants pocket and is pointing at something with his righ... |
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