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Chulew Family Swimming at Schwartz's Resort

Date: 1959
Description: Chulew family (from left): Marcia, Natalie, and Manny at Schwartz's Resort.
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Peltz Family at Son's Bar Mitzvah

Date: 1959
Description: Peltz family (head table) at son Andre's Bar Mitzvah at the Jewish Community Center.
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John F. Kennedy

Date: 1959
Description: Senator John F. Kennedy with his wife, Jackie. Second from right is Ivan Nestigan, then Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin.
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Two Men near International Harvester Truck

Date: 1959
Description: International Harvester dealer Vern Netteschiem (right) and an interested customer leaning on an International truck. In the background a truck is loaded w...
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Union Christmas Party

Date: 1959
Description: Four members of an unidentified local in United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 (Burette King, Sidney Coleman, Aljay Williams, and Joseph Kuzma)...
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Ike and Smith Children

Date: 1959
Description: President Eisenhower greets the children of reporter Merriman Smith at his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The photograph is undated, but as Christian He...
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Monkey Island

Date: 1959
Description: Monkey Island, a popular attraction at the Vilas Park Zoo (Henry Vilas Zoo). It was built in the 1930s as a WPA project and modeled after one in the Hagen...
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Red Skelton on International Harvester Stage

Date: 1959
Description: Red Skelton entertains an audience while onstage at the convention of American Trucking Associations. The International Harvester logo is displayed on the ...
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Tibetan Refugee

Date: 1959
Description: A refugee from Tibet, photographed by journalist Cecil Brown in Sikkim, India, shortly after the Dalai Lama and his followers fled from their country.
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Rosser Reeves

Date: 1959
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Rosser Reeves, holding a cigarette and wearing a bow tie.
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Wisconsinites with Jackie Robinson

Date: 1959
Description: Stanley Zuckerman, Lloyd Barbee, Jackie Robinson, and David Obey. The photograph is inscribed from Obey to Barbee.
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International Harvester Combine Production

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view of a line of combines loaded on open railroad cars on tracks on one side of a wet and snowy dirt road at International Harvester's East Molin...
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Limousine on Havana Street

Date: 1959
Description: Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve...
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Soldiers with Crowd, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1959
Description: Two of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement soldiers wielding guns are standing in front of a crowd next to a building under a covered Havana sidewalk. Tak...
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Havana Parade, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1959
Description: Close-up of July 26th Movement soldiers sitting on a military vehicle during a parade to celebrate Fidel Castro's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban...
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Man Working on International Motor Truck

Date: 1959
Description: A factory worker leans through the windshield of an International motor truck while adjusting one of its parts. The photograph was possibly taken at the co...
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Truck Manufacture

Date: 1959
Description: View through a truck body of men at work in an International Motor Truck Division factory, probably the Springfield Works. Other men can be seen working on...
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Truck Assembly Line at Springfield Works

Date: 1959
Description: Factory workers work on partially-assembled trucks as they move down an assembly line at International Harvester's Springfield Works.
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Truck Assembly Line at Springfield Works

Date: 1959
Description: Factory workers work on partially-assembled trucks as they move down an assembly line at International Harvester's Springfield Works.
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Trucks on Assembly Line

Date: 1959
Description: View from interior of truck of factory workers tending to partially-assembled trucks as they move down an assembly line at International Harvester's Spring...

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