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Portable Confessional

Date: 02 18 1943
Description: Portable confessional, rear view, priest's side, taken in Photo Copy Service studio, 211 West Mifflin Street. Taken for Burgess Laboratory.
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Shooting a Negative

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Co. plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is making a halftone negative, the first step in making a photo engra...
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Governor Kohler and Foreign Dignitaries

Date: 06 1955
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., meeting with a delegation of Latin American newspapermen in his office at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Dreyfus "State of the State" Address

Date: 01 31 1979
Description: Framed by a window in the Assembly Chamber door, Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus addresses the Wisconsin Legislature.
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Harry Conley and Arthur Vinje

Date: 03 19 1954
Description: Harry Conley, left, Director of Athletics in the Superior school system, and Arthur M. Vinje, Wisconsin State Journal photographer, sitting on the bleacher...
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Matthew Witt Posing with Camera

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Description: Photographer Matthew Witt poses with one of his cameras, holding the shutter release. It is placed on a table with a fringed tablecloth. He is wearing a su...
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Taliesin Fellowship Choir

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright visited the First Unitarian Society Meeting House, a building he designed, to be filmed by the Omnibus television program. In addition t...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Gilbert Stahl, camera man for Brock Engraving Company, adjusts art in the copy holder. Shown is the camera which will shoot the art; negatives are develope...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Ed Schumann, owner of Ed Schumann and Associates, and Frank Pellitteri, the production manager at the business, set up an advertising shot for Red Dot Pota...
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Obey Photo Shoot

Date: 01 1969
Description: A photo shoot for David R. Obey's first campaign for Congress picturing him as assistant majority leader with Majority Leader Bob Huber (partially obscured...
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We Saw You . . . at Lutheran Conference

Date: 01 28 1959
Description: Thousands of Lutherans attend the National Lutheran Evangelism conference held in Madison at the Dane County Fairgrounds. The conference has its own public...
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Advance Registration for UW Freshmen

Date: 07 23 1959
Description: Joy Justesen of Sun Prairie poses for an identification photo as she participates in the advance registration process for University of Wisconsin freshmen.
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Kathy Rochwite

Date: 02 1999
Description: Kathy Rochwite photographs Cambellsport wrestlers at the WIAA Wrestling Finals at the Kohl Center in Madison.
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Shooting Session

Date: 1962
Description: John Newhouse, staff photographer for the "Wisconsin State Journal," in a “shooting session” with model Jean Harris. Ms. Harris is, for some unexplained re...
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Sid Posing in Darkroom

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Description: Sid standing in a print drying room adjacent to a darkroom (likely at Gisholt). He wears trousers and a tie, and is holding his pipe in his right hand. A p...
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Gisholt Movie

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Description: Three men are looking on, one running the movie camera, as a Gisholt worker is filmed working at a machine. The three men behind the camera are wearing sui...
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The Press at the Bernie Sanders Rally

Date: 04 03 2016
Description: Members of the press setting up while standing behind their cameras and tripods at the Bernie Sanders rally being held in the Kohl Center.
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WKOW 27

Date: 04 03 2016
Description: Members of the press setting up their cameras at the Bernie Sanders rally held in the Kohl Center. On the right, a woman is standing and watching, while ho...
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University of Wisconsin Summer Prom

Date: 08 06 1954
Description: Preparing to have their picture taken at the university summer prom at the Memorial Union are Gloria Wruck and John R. Detter, both from Madison. Gloria is...
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Stanley Sadler, Chief Engineer at WMTV

Date: 09 1955
Description: Stanley Sadler (b.1905-d.1969) posing with a camera. Sadler is chief engineer at the WMTV station in Madison.

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