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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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John R. Commons

Date: 1920
Description: John R. Commons, a University of Wisconsin professor, is shown standing outside Sterling Hall with his hat on the ground at his feet.
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Spice Collection

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef, proudly displaying his spice collection.
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Paul Bunyan Effigy

Date: 11 05 1935
Description: A Paul Bunyan figure used to celebrate University of Wisconsin Homecoming, was placed on the lawn in front of Bascom Hall. Two athletes are standing beside...
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Two Pairs of Twins at U.W.

Date: 04 20 1934
Description: Two pairs of twins at the University of Wisconsin. Left to right: Mary and Elizabeth Rhodes and Eleanor and Dorothea Bond.
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Coach Eddie Lynch

Date: 09 15 1932
Description: Outdoor portrait of assistant University of Wisconsin football Coach Eddie Lynch, standing on the football field.
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Mary Wright Bain

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Portrait of Mary Wright (Mrs. H. Foster) Bain, who flew her own airplane from her home in Newark, N.J. to her University of Wisconsin reunion. She is posin...
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Gretchen Smoot and Another Woman

Date: 11 27 1931
Description: Gretchen Smoot, U.W. Co-ed and cousin of Utah Senator Reed Smoot, and another woman, both wearing fur coats, standing in front of a house.
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Harold Smith Cleaning a Windshield

Date: 04 03 1931
Description: Harold Smith, University of Wisconsin football tackle, working his way through school by cleaning windshields at a Valvoline station.
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Eleanor Roosevelt at Press Conference

Date: 01 18 1953
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed by the press prior to her Sunday afternoon talk in the Memorial Union Theater.
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Eleanor Roosevelt Press Conference

Date: 01 19 1953
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed by the press prior to her Sunday afternoon talk in the Memorial Union Theater.
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King and Queen of the 25th International Show

Date: 02 01 1944
Description: Janice Eide of Lodi and Chester B. Van Roo of Wauwatosa with the horse, "Belgian Farceur." Eide and Van Roo are king and queen of the 25th Little Internati...
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Picnic Point Work Day Blue Jeans King And Queen

Date: 04 28 1945
Description: Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Shown posing together are the chosen "blue jeans" king and queen f...
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Chef Carson Gulley

Date: 1945
Description: Chef Carson Gulley, University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall chef, chopping vegetables.
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Women's Self Government Banquet

Date: 02 25 1948
Description: Two of the special guests of honor at the Women's Self Government Association celebration are Mrs. M.S. (Gertrude) Slaughter, and Mrs. Marvin B. (Lois) Ros...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: Henry Schoephorster, Prairie du Sac, who attended the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week at the Madison campus.
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Two Women at Lunt-Fontanne Play

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Sophie Steiger Roth, Madison, and her niece Ann Steiger of Oshkosh, at the premiere performance of the Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne play "I Know My Love" at t...
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Student Chuan-Yen Liu

Date: 03 05 1949
Description: Chuan-Yen Liu, a University of Wisconsin graduate student in economics, working at the Truax Field cafeteria. The students at the University of Wisconsin h...
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Henry Lawrence Ahlgren and Harriet Gleason

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Description: Outdoor portrait of Henry Lawrence Ahlgren (1908-2004) and Harriet Gleason (1911-1998) while students at the University of Wisconsin. The couple married Fe...
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Winnifred Ahrens Spring

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Description: A studio portrait of Winnifred Ahrens Spring, a kindergarten teacher at West Side School in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

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