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Aldo Leopold

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Description: Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of...
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Arthur Vierthaler and his Sons

Date: 06 14 1955
Description: Arthur A. Vierthaler, University of Wisconsin assistant professor of art education, on the lawn of his Fox Bluff home with his four sons: Paul, Kurt, Erich...
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Group of Men with Boat on Land

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Description: A group of men are gathered around a stagecoach which is mounted on a platform in a yard, with buildings in the background. Some men are sitting inside, wh...
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Small Cabin

Date: 08 23 1964
Description: Lloyd Lehman stands in the open doorway of his small cabin on Washington Island. This cabin is one of a number of former summer camp buildings.
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Rev. Claude Williams

Date: 1962
Description: Rev. Claude Williams and his wife Joyce, probably photographed at their house in Birmingham, Alabama. Williams, a Presbyterian minister, was expelled from ...
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Packing Up

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Description: Sigurd Olson and another man stowing camping gear into an automobile for a canoe trip.
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Early Nixon

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Description: An unidentified and undated photograph of Richard Nixon probably made early during his career. The photograph was taken by Washington, D.C. reporter Merrim...
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Bob Allen in Wisconsin National Guard Uniform

Date: 1922
Description: Journalist Robert S. Allen, center, in military uniform, poses with the staff of the "Wisconsin State Journal". A graduate of the Wisconsin Journalism Scho...
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Achille Starace, "The Sly"

Date: 04 1938
Description: Achille Starace, Secretary of the Italian Fascist Party. American journalist Cecil Brown was able to get close to the man, labeled "Starace, the Sly" in hi...
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Lewis Arms and Jerome WIlliams

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Description: Lewis Arms peeks from behind Jerome Williams, who is holding a cigarette. They are standing outdoors near a street.
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Bernard and Nellie Arms

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Description: Bernard Arms poses with his wife Nellie. There is an automobile (possibly a Chevrolet) in the background.
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Melody Haven

Date: 1938
Description: A man is exiting a wooden building with a Blatz beer sign hanging on the front and two automobiles parked nearby. Near Clam Lake.
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Olive Brooks, Division Engineer in Panama

Date: 1942
Description: Olive Brooks, Army Division Engineer Public Relations with her .45 on the "Dolphin", Chucunaque River, Panama. She is pointing her gun out towards the rive...
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Raul and Fidel Castro

Date: 1958
Description: Fidel Castro sits in a hammock smoking a cigarette and speaking with his brother Raul, who is crouching on the ground.
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Devil's Lake CCC Workers Standing at a Saw

Date: 1935
Description: Group of Civilian Conservation Corps workers standing at a table saw. One man, probably a supervisor, wears a hat and tie.
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Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
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Soldiers Build a Tent

Date: 1942
Description: Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry building a "wiki-up", or place to sleep while on patrol, in a jungle in Panama. One man has a cigarette in his mouth.
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26th of July Movement Members Resting by Tree

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement rest by a tree in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro is holding an espresso cup in the foreground, and Celia ...
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Lao Infantry Playing Cards

Date: 05 1961
Description: Group of Colonel Bounchon's Lao infantrymen playing cards in the field. The soldiers sit or stand around a blanket where cards, money and cigarettes are la...
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School Bus Driver

Date: 02 24 1978
Description: "School bus driver Aaron Henning waits patiently for his passengers."

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