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Prosperity and Abundance Sculptures

Date: 1952
Description: Two ornamental sculptures at the base of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. The figures represent Abundance and Prosperity.
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Lincoln Terrace

Date: 1952
Description: Lincoln Terrace on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Unveiled in 1909, the Lincoln Statue was created by sculptor Adolf Weinman of Hodgenville, K...
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Dance Performer

Date: 1952
Description: Virginia Lee Kehl MacKesey, performing with "Orchesis," a University of Wisconsin dance company under the direction of Margaret D'Houbler and Louise Kleppe...
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Carillon Tower

Date: 1952
Description: Bells of the Carillon Tower on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Willie McGee Rally

Date: 1952
Description: An unidentified rally in support of the rights of Willie McGee who was convicted of raping a white woman in 1945. His case attracted the attention of many ...
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Publicity Still from The Importance of Being Earnest

Date: 1952
Description: Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, and Michael Denison in The Importance of Being Earnest (British Film Makers, 1952). Beatrice Dawson designed the costum...
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Carlo Battisti in Umberto D

Date: 1952
Description: Scene still of Carlo Battisti as Umberto Domenico Ferrari in Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D (1952).
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George Poujouly and Nathalie Pascaud in Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games)

Date: 1952
Description: Scene still of George Poujouly as Michel and Brigitte Fossey as Paulette in René Clément's Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games, 1952).
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Yûnosuke Itô and Takashi Shimura in Ikiru

Date: 1952
Description: Scene still of Yûnosuke Itô, as the writer, and Takashi Shimura, as the dying bureaucrat Kanji Watanabe, in Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952).
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Ronald Reagan as Capt. David Farrgut in Death Valley Days

Date: 1952
Description: Ronald Reagan stars as Capt. David Farragut in "The Battle of San Francisco Bay," an episode of Death Valley Days. Reagan holds a pocket watch in on...
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Ronald Reagan in Death Valley Days

Date: 1952
Description: Ronald Reagan sits on a horse in a publicity still for the TV show Death Valley Days. He wears a hat and a vest with a pocket watch fob attached to...
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Parade on College Avenue at Walnut Street, Looking East

Date: 1952
Description: Street view of a parade on College Avenue at Walnut Street. Crowds and cars line both sides of the street, looking on as bands, cars, and floats pass by. L...
Book or Pamphlet

Packers Official Program

Date: 1952
Description: Cover of a 1952 Green Bay Packers Official Program. Features artwork by Lon Keller depicting a football player making a catch on a background of autumn col...
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Rosser Reeves and Dwight D. Eisenhower

Date: 1952
Description: Rosser Reeves and Dwight D. Eisenhower leaving the Transfilm Building after filming fifty political spots in one day. (Rosser Reeves wearing glasses.) Eise...
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Ikie Eisenhower Vill KEEP US Boys In Power

Date: 1952
Description: A two-sided, antisemitic card featuring "Ikie" Eisenhower on the left (with "IKIE" below) and a caricature of a Jewish man on the right (with "US" below). ...
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Playhouse Theater at Hillside Home School

Date: 1952
Description: Interior view of the Playhouse Theater at Hillside Home School.
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WKOW Radio Station

Date: 1952
Description: "Uncle Julius and His Boys" band playing for the Doughboy Dinner concert.
Book or Pamphlet

Program for Music by the Lake

Date: 1952
Description: The program for the summer series of concerts sponsored by George Williams College at their College Camp on Geneva Lake was designed by Edmund Elsner of Wi...
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Hafezi Family Making Bread

Date: 1952
Description: Women of the Hafezi family making bread with ingredients supplied by United States aid to Iran. One of the women weaves a basket.
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Margaret McGuire Promoting Cheese

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, on WAFM-TV, Channel 13, with another woman promoting Wisconsin Cheese.

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