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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Elderly Ho-Chunk Woman and Ho-Chunk Girl Posing Near Lodge

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Description: An elderly Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting and holding a cane, and a Ho-Chunk girl standing next to her, are outside the closed doorway of a Ho-Chunk lodge i...
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Baby Huey from the Audience

Date: 04 24 1970
Description: Chicago R&B act Baby Huey mid-performance viewed from the audience. The band was made up of a three man horn section, electric guitar, drums, congas, elect...
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Mr. and Mrs. Trimpey

Date: 1920
Description: A seated studio portrait of the photographer and his wife, Alice Kent Trimpey.
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Tufty Friends

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Description: Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, a nationally prominent journalist, whose papers are part of the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society, chatting with Pr...
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Dining Room

Date: 1900
Description: A woman poses as if pouring water into a glass. There is a tablecloth, tea set and glass bowl on the table. A large, fancy parlor stove is featured in the ...
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Jayne Blodgett

Date: 1949
Description: "Jayne Blodgett - Conover Model." A photographer with a 4x5 press camera is shooting from the opposite direction.
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Mrs. A.S. Richards

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Description: Stereograph of Mrs. A.S. Richards posing with a camera and tripod over her shoulder among boulders. There is a box, probably holding glass-plate negatives,...
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Ferdinand Hotz

Date: 1888
Description: Quarter-length portrait of the photographer Ferdinand Hotz (March 14, 1868 - December 28, 1946) as a young man. He wears a fine suit and a single pearl stu...
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Ferdinand Hotz with the Emperor Maximilian Diamond

Date: 1933
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses holding the 41.94 carat Emperor Maximilian Diamond, which he owned from 1919 to 1946. He is wearing pince nez glasses and a pearl tie ...
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Cardinal Francis Spellman

Date: 1946
Description: Cardinal Spellman stands with hat in hand looking off to his right. His full body and Cardinal robes are visible. In the left third of the image, a photogr...
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Female Model with Camera

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Description: A female model poses with a camera in her lap while sitting in the grass. She is wearing a black bathing suit, a striped cape, and shoes with knee-high sto...
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Man Photographing his Aunt

Date: 07 1982
Description: Dr. Greg Langenfeld photographs his aunt Clara Bandlow with his Leica camera.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Allison and Hoffmann

Date: 1979
Description: R. Bruce Allison, left, and B. Wolfgang Hoffman posing in front of the massive trunk of a tree. Allison, an arborist, is the author, and Hoffmann the photo...
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Interviewing Lena C. Taylor

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Ali Velshi interviewing Wisconsin State Senator (4th District) Lena Taylor as a camera operator is filming them. They are standing in the press staging are...
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Richard W. Vesey

Date: 07 21 1957
Description: Portrait of Richard Vesey, who had a gallery exhibition at the University of Wisconsin Union of his photographs. He was a member of the Wisconsin State ...

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