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Bascom Hall

Date: 1949
Description: Exterior of entrance to Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison camppus. Students are sitting around the Lincoln Monument o...
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Men and Women Gathering in Living Room in Cuba

Date: 1949
Description: Three men and two women gather in a living room to listen to one of the men playing a guitar. The room is in the worker housing at an International Harvest...
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Silvana Mangano in Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice)

Date: 1949
Description: Scene still of Silvana Mangano, playing Silvana Melega, standing in a flooded rice paddy with two horses in Giuseppe De Santis's Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice...
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Group of Shriners in Oriental Band at Chicago Parade

Date: 1949
Description: Shriners on parade in Chicago. The men are dressed in middle eastern costume for an "Oriental Band" from the "-ktash Shrine Temple" [name obscured].
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Statue of Abraham Lincoln

Date: 1949
Description: The statue of Lincoln as a young man stands on the Ripon College campus, west of Farr Hall. Alumnus Clarence A. Shaler created the sculpture, delivered in ...
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Jayne Blodgett

Date: 1949
Description: "Jayne Blodgett — Conover Model."
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Jayne Blodgett

Date: 1949
Description: "Jayne Blodgett - Conover Model." A photographer with a 4x5 press camera is shooting from the opposite direction.
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General Topography of Copper Falls State Park, Ashland County, Wisconsin : T.45 N., R. 2 W., 4th P.M.

Date: 1949
Description: This 1949 map shows the topography and significant landmarks in Copper Falls State Park, Ashland County, Wisconsin. On the verso is a black-and-white image...
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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Picking Fruit

Date: 1949
Description: Alfred Lunt standing on a wooden ladder and picking plums from a tree in the Ten Chimneys orchard. Lynn Fontanne stands below holding a basket to collect t...
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Barbara Payton

Date: 1949
Description: Barbara Payton posing outdoors for a publicity portrait for the film "Trapped." She is standing against a tree wearing a swimsuit. A swimming pool is below...
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Ida Lupino

Date: 1949
Description: Director Ida Lupino sitting in a chair, getting her foot bandaged by an unknown man on the outdoors set of the 1949 film "Never Fear." A foot cast is next ...

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