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Photograph Gallery of Charles Van Schaick

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Description: Man petting dog, who is sitting on a chair, inside the photographic studio. There is a large studio camera on the left, several pieces of studio furniture,...
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Boy Scouts

Date: 1946
Description: Three young men in uniform, most likely boy scouts, standing with a model airplane. The men are being filmed for television at the Iowa State Fair.
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Betty Wells at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: Actress Betty Wells sitting next to a man, possibly a KRNT radio personality, for a simultaneous radio and television broadcast from the Iowa State Fair.
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Laborer

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Description: Bloch dressed as a "laborer," worried about what he would do for a living if he couldn't write. The photograph was taken for the "History" scrapbook.
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Reporters and Dulles

Date: 10 30 1956
Description: Reporters crowd around Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. To Dulles' right is longtime White House correspondent Merriman Smith.
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President Lyndon Johnson Meets the Press

Date: 04 04 1964
Description: President Lyndon Johnson meets with the press in the Cabinet meeting room.
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Hickory Hill Farm Photo Staff in Studio

Date: 1961
Description: A large group of photographers, filmmakers, and other individuals gathers for a portrait in International Harvester's Hickory Hill Farm photo studio.
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Man Posing with Camera

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Description: A studio portrait of a man posing with a camera in front of a painted background. He wears a white shirt, suspenders and a hat.
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Photographic Self-Portrait of David Gander

Date: 1916
Description: A photographic self-portrait of David Gander taken in a mirror. He is posed with a camera and is wearing a jacket and a hat. In the background appears to b...
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Gatti-Hallicrafters Expedition Equipment Demonstration

Date: 1947
Description: Original caption reads: "J. Powers and Weldon King demonstrate 'magic ear' and 'seeing eye' on 'Floating Island' to be used by Gatti-Hallicfrater Expeditio...
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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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Boy Scouts Leaving for Jamboree

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Three men at the railroad station examine a schedule as they leave for the Boy Scout Jamboree in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Wallace Wikoff of the Wisco...
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Young Women with Bicycles

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of eight young women, each standing and holding a bicycle. Three of the women also hold brownie cameras.
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 400-412

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Description: We were promised, we were told
that candy came in stripes and boxes

But some was stacked,
like lost rewards, the chocolate-coated paradoxes
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Photograph of Bridesmaids

Date: 11 24 1955
Description: With a Rolleiflex camera, Fred Bandlow takes pictures of bridesmaids at the Boegel/Shommer wedding.
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Margaret McGuire Promoting Cheese

Date: 1952
Description: Margaret McGuire, the 1948 Alice in Dairyland, on WAFM-TV, Channel 13, with another woman promoting Wisconsin Cheese.
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Sid Sitting in Armchair

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Description: Sid sitting with his feet up in an armchair. He is wearing a hat and is holding a cigar in his right hand. There is a flower arrangement on a table on the ...
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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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Save the Mounds Demonstration

Date: 01 12 2016
Description: View looking down at the Save the Mounds demonstration on the ground floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol against Assembly Bill 620. In the center is a dru...
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Save the Mounds Demonstration

Date: 01 12 2016
Description: View looking down at the Save the Mounds demonstration on the ground floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol against Assembly Bill 620. In the center is a dru...

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