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The Photoart House Processing Envelope

Date: 
Description: The tattered remains of a processing envelope from The Photoart House. Handwritten on the envelope is "Ice Machine, 111, 893," "Schoelkopf, 210 E Wash Ave....
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt Portrait

Date: 1955
Description: Waist-up portrait of Paul Vanderbilt sitting sideways on a chair. He was Curator of the Iconographic Collections, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Dickey Chapelle Receiving Polk Award

Date: 04 13 1962
Description: Dickey Chapelle receiving the George Polk Memorial Award from William Lawrence of The New York Times at the Waldorf Astoria.
Photograph

Dickey Chapelle and Family

Date: 12 25 1943
Description: Informal portrait of Dickey Chapelle (back left), her husband Tony Chapelle (back center), her brother Bob Meyer (back right), and her parents Paul Meyer a...
Photograph

Dickey Chapelle with Donkey

Date: 1945
Description: Dickey Chapelle wearing a heavy coat and kneeling to feed hay to a donkey next to a cart on a street in a city in Geurande, France. She has a camera around...
Photograph

Dickey Chapelle at Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle taking photographs on the beach in Milwaukee during Operation Inland Seas. A Navy ship is on Lake Michigan in the background on the left. A...
Photograph

Edward Weston

Date: 
Description: Edward Weston setting exposure on his 8 x 10 camera at Highlander Folk School in New Market,Tennessee.
Photograph

Photographer on Pier

Date: 08 1925
Description: A photographer is crouching on a wooden pier behind a small camera on a tripod to film C.B. (Chandler Burnell) Chapman, a realtor and good friend of Stanle...
Photograph

Vel Phillips in Crowd around President Jimmy Carter

Date: 10 06 1980
Description: Vel Phillips is in the background looking at President Jimmy Carter standing among a crowd. There is a photographer in the foreground holding up a camera.
Photograph

Vel Phillips Attends Presidential Visit

Date: 10 06 1980
Description: Group of people standing and sitting behind a velvet rope listening to President Jimmy Carter speak. Vel Phillips sits on the far right.
Photograph

Vel Phillips and Gerda Ruecktenwald

Date: 05 09 1992
Description: Vel Phillips posing with photographer Gerda Ruecktenwald. Vel is wearing a light blue suit, a flower shaped brooch, and a button pin that reads: "Hate" wit...
Photograph

Chester P. Gross

Date: 1935
Description: Indoor portrait of Chester P. Gross, seated in a chair at a desk. He is writing in a notebook with a pencil. Gross photographed the Wisconsin State Capitol...
Photograph

Lucy A. Kaufmann

Date: 1905
Description: Lucy Kaufmann poses in an open, wooded area holding a hoe. She is wearing a tattered hat; her skirt and blouse are torn. There are two sheds and woodpiles ...
Photograph

Dewey Presidential Campaign Train

Date: 10 1944
Description: View from crowd of Governor Thomas A. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate, aboard the campaign train.
Photograph

William R. Parks

Date: 1908
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of William R. Parks, a photographer from Iola, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Photographer Howard Greene

Date: 1914
Description: View looking up at Howard Greene making a photograph outdoors using a large format camera. His head is under the dark cloth.
Photograph

Photographer Howard Greene

Date: 1911
Description: Howard "Dad" Greene makes photographs of the scenery with his Grafflex camera. He is wearing a hat and smoking a pipe.
Photograph

Dad Changing Plates

Date: 1909
Description: Howard Greene (Dad) is changing negative plates in his large format camera on the banks of the Presque Isle River.
Photograph

Dad the Photographer

Date: 1910
Description: A view of Howard "Dad" Greene photographing an Indian man and a dog next to a jerky-drying frame. They are in an Indian village at the mouth of the Namakan...
Photograph

A.J. Packard, Photographer

Date: 1910
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Arthur J. Packard, an early Manitowoc photographer known for views of the area, its people, harbor and marine vessels fro...

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