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"The Founding of the United States Pharmacopeia" Painting

Date: 1957
Description: Photograph of a completed painting by artist Robert Thom titled: "The Founding of the United States Pharmacopeia". The painting depicts a scene from the fi...
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Painting "The Founding of the U.S. Pharmacopeia"

Date: 1957
Description: Artist Robert Thom is seen here working on one of his paintings, this one titled: "The Founding of the United States Pharmacopeia".
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"The Founding of the U.S. Pharmacopeia" Painting

Date: 1957
Description: The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ...
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Walking in the Rain

Date: 1957
Description: A woman in business attire walking with an open umbrella on a rainy day in downtown Milwaukee. To her left is the Civil War monument, "The Victorious Charg...
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Chapelle with Algerians

Date: 1957
Description: Dickey Chapelle sitting with the FLN Scorpion Battalion Rebels in the Atlas Mountains in Algeria drinking tea.
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WIBA's "We Say What We Think Club"

Date: 1957
Description: WIBA radio personalities Selma Sorenson, Sibylle Mitchell, Isabel Baumann, Grace Langer and Ruth King, together known as the "We Say What We Think Club," l...
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Office at the Bennett Studio

Date: 1957
Description: Dorothy Phelps and Ruth Bennett Dyer have lunch in the office at the Bennett Studio as Miriam Bennett looks on.
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Aline W. Hazard Interviewing Woman

Date: 1957
Description: Aline W. Hazard (in hat) of WHA Radio, recording and interviewing Mrs. Robert Jahnke (Corrine) at Forest Acres Deer Farm. Mrs. Jahnke holds a pair of earri...
Drawing

Belle Boyd

Date: 1957
Description: Pencil sketch of Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy who is buried in Wisconsin.
Painting

Black Evening Gown Design for "Vertigo"

Date: 1957
Description: Pencil, ink, gouache, and watercolor design for a floor-length black evening gown with black overcoat with white collar, designed by Edith Head for Kim Nov...
Photograph

Pete Seeger at Highlander

Date: 1957
Description: Pete Seeger at Highlander Folk School, possibly at a 25th anniversary celebration, where he was in charge of music. Playing an Orpheum #1 open-back five st...
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Peter Seeger Playing at Highlander

Date: 1957
Description: Pete Seeger playing the 5-string banjo at the 25th Anniversary of Highlander Folk School in the Library building.
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Polka Party

Date: 1957
Description: A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background.
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Living Room at Taliesin

Date: 1957
Description: Fireplace wall in living room at Taliesin, the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. A Wright designed music stand and table are in front of the fir...
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Taliesin Living Room

Date: 1957
Description: Fireplace wall in the living room of Taliesin, the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Included in the image are a Wright designed music stand and...
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Loggia at Taliesin

Date: 1957
Description: View from the Loggia looking into the garden room at Taliesin, the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The image shows a Japanese screen hanging o...
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Hallway at Taliesin

Date: 1957
Description: Hallway/loggia at Taliesin, the summer home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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"Sweet Smell of Success" Scene Still

Date: 1957
Description: Steve Dallas (played by Martin Milner) and Frank D' Angelo (Sam Levene) in a scene still from "Sweet Smell of Success" (UA, 1957).
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Victor Sjöström in Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)

Date: 1957
Description: Scene still of Victor Sjöström as the elderly Dr. Isak Borg in Ingmar Bergman's Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries, 1957).
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Aleksey Batalov in Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes are Flying)

Date: 1957
Description: Publicity still of Aleksey Batalov as Boris, a soldier at the front in World War II, in Mikhail Kalatozov's Letyat zhuravli (The Cranes are Flying, ...

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