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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Journal photographer with display of cameras and flash units. He is dramatically demonstrating the use of flash powder. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Chicago & North Western Railway viaduct on the line along the Milwaukee River. The viaduct has two arched passages, and stones and rocks lining the path f... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Interior view of lobby area with several people sitting in chairs. Manuscript notations on the mount makes much of the fact that it was photographed at ni... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Three ladies and four men examine a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler at a dealership or branch house. The photograph was taken in a large well-lit room ... |
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| Description: | A photographer is setting up for a shot of a man by a river. Across the river are buildings with advertisements and signs. A large log transport is on the ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1913 |
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| Description: | Two men working a desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger accounting office. There are photographs on the wall, including a crane, the P&H plant, and a St. Lo... |
| Date: | 01 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Jean Henriksen, a Madison Capital Times librarian, poses as the queen of the Wisconsin Press Photographers Association at the group's meeting in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A young girl, Tannisse Taylor, poses with a camera on a tripod. She is wearing a white dress, black stockings, black shoes and has a white bow in her hair.... |
| Date: | 11 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Students work in a studio on their individual projects for a photography class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology. |
| Date: | 01 2003 |
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| Description: | Kandy Lindgren trains her lens at the Milwaukee Art Museum. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A woman in a black coat is taking a picture with her phone of another woman in a blue blazer, who is standing in front of a metal barrier fence. They are i... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A couple poseing outside the Milwaukee Theater under the electronic sign announcing the Republican presidential debate. Another man, holding two phones, is... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | A group of people are taking photographs of the protesters outside the Republican presidential debate. In the center are two giant effigy puppets of Donald... |
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