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First Attempt

Date: 1887
Description: Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype and albumen print of a picket fence and the caption: "First Attempt;" 1887, What's the Matter? "Light struck."
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Trials and Tribulations of Amateur Photography

Date: 1887
Description: Scrapbook page containing a cyanotype print and an albumen print looking toward Lake Michigan.
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Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams checks the time as he records exposure information into his logbook during a photo shoot. His 8 x 10 field camera is in the background.
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United States Armed Forces Institute

Date: 12 30 1947
Description: Major Glenn McConagha, commandant of the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) seated at a desk signing a course completion certificate. USAFI provi...
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Office Workers

Date: 1934
Description: A man looks through papers at a desk while a woman, most likely a secretary, takes notes. The man and woman may have worked for an International Harvester ...
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Druggist Office

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Description: A druggist sits at a desk in Havana, Cuba making notes in a ledger. Beside and behind him are bookshelves full of books and other drug related ephemera.
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The History of Wisconsin Poster

Date: 1893
Description: John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo...
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Tattered Bound Document

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Inside pages of a tattered bound document written in German, with handwritten notes filling in blanks on the left page, and handwriting near a stamp on the...
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Inside Pages of a Book

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Handwriting filling in the blanks on two inside pages of a bound document. The document is in German. On the bottom of the left page is a signature that re...
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Page of a Bound Document

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Inside front cover and first page of a bound document written in German. The blanks are filled in with handwriting. On the bottom right is an official stam...
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Letter from William Ingles

Date: 09 13 1763
Description: A letter written by William Ingles to William Preston.

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