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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Portrait in a Mirror

Date: 1900
Description: A woman photographer catches reflections of herself, a young girl and a woman in a bedroom bureau mirror.
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Channel 10 Auction

Date: 04 27 1976
Description: The set of the fundraising auction of Channel 10, Milwaukee's public television station. Senator William Proxmire is standing to the left of the closed B B...
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Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates

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Description: Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates, apparently wearing press badges, standing outdoors talking with an unidentified man. L.C. Bates, who is wearing a camera, is ap...
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Chapelle Photographs Marines

Date: 1955
Description: Front view of Dickey Chapelle shooting photographs of two Marines, who are shown from the back.
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Chapelle with Soldiers and Woman

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers.
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Marion Palfi and Dan Paul at Highlander

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Description: CIO School at Highlander Folk School, featuring Marion Palfi holding a camera, and Dan Paul, the Southern PAC Director, center. An unidentified woman is on...
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Highlander Film Center

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Description: Filming a scene for the Highlander Film Center. Fred Lasse standing right of camera.
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Highlander Film Center Street Scene

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Description: Filming a scene with an 8mm movie camera on a street, in front of a car for the Highlander Film Center.
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Holocaust Survivor Manny Chulew and Family

Date: 1947
Description: Foreground: Sasha Auerbach (brother of Esther Chulew). Back, from left: unidentified woman, Manny Chulew, Esther Chulew (sister-in-law), Baruch Chulew (bro...
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Susanne Hafner Goldfarb and Parents on S.S. Jerusalem

Date: 1953
Description: Susanne Hafner Goldfarb (right), Max Hafner (left), and Martha Hafner (center) on S.S. Jerusalem en route to the United States.
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Louis Koplin and Family

Date: 04 1971
Description: From left: Louis Koplin's nephew, Lanny Lichter, son Steven, wife Lorraine, Louis Koplin; on a visit to Joe Fink, the man responsible for bringing Koplin t...
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Mark Harmon at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1990
Description: Actor Mark Harmon on the set at Old World Wisconsin. Harmon starred in the lead role in the made-for-TV movie "Dillinger". Cinematographer Donald M. Morgan...
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Mark Harmon at Old World Wisconsin

Date: 1990
Description: Costumed for the lead role in the made-for-TV movie "Dillinger," actor Mark Harmon signs autographs for some tourists who were visiting Old World Wisconsin...
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Milwaukee Movie Set

Date: 1990
Description: Costumed actors on a Third Ward street transformed to represent the 1930s for the made-for-TV movie "Dillinger".
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The "Guardian" Chinese Tour

Date: 04 1974
Description: Supporters of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper, visiting the birthplace of Mao Tse Tung.
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Dickey Chapelle on the USS "Boxer"

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Description: Dickey Chapelle is sitting on the USS "Boxer" with cameras around her neck and luggage at her side.
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Tufty Friends

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Description: Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, a nationally prominent journalist, whose papers are part of the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society, chatting with Pr...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 1951
Description: 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion Warren Slightam about to compete in an exhibition race at the 1951 Madison soap box derby on Gorham Street.
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Yuletide Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Photographic holiday card featuring Carl Marty of the Northernaire Resort in Three Lakes, Wisconsin. He is famous for his hospitality and his "animal frien...

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