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Beach Toss

Date: 08 12 1984
Description: A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe...
Photograph

Video Portraits

Date: 04 02 1987
Description: Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
Photograph

1950's Memories

Date: 07 15 1987
Description: A woman finishes a display of Bay View High School photographs from the 1950s as part of an any-year reunion at the Festa Italiana on the Summerfest ground...
Photograph

Vintage Airplanes

Date: 07 27 1988
Description: Vintage aircraft always attract attention. In 1988 on their way to the EAA convention, the national organization of owners of World War II trainers made a ...
Photograph

Magda Herzberger Lecturing

Date: 11 06 1980
Description: Magda Herzberger points to a photographic image projected onto a screen while giving a lecture about the Holocaust at Monroe High School.
Photograph

John Schiefer House

Date: 06 1982
Description: "At the John Schiefer House, Dr. & Mrs. Arnold Boegel page through old photographs. John Boddens great grandfather built the house in 1848. Shirley Widmer'...
Photograph

Marguerite Olsen

Date: 1983
Description: "Marguerite Olsen, seated, was honored on this day. Her father, Frank Anninger, was a pioneer photographer who took many Theresa documentary photographs. A...
Photograph

Communion Ware

Date: 09 1983
Description: "The purpose of this setup was to photograph the Communion Ware for a church folder. Reflections were minimized in this open field. Fingertips belong to S...
Photograph

Communion Ware

Date: 09 1983
Description: "This is the photograph that was used for the church folder."
Photograph

How to Clean a Camera Lens

Date: 10 1987
Description: "Winfred Herberg, a perennial jokester, does a spoof on how to clean a camera lens."
Photograph

Mayville's Main Street

Date: 01 1988
Description: "At the left is a turn-of-the-century (1900) 10 x 8 inch glass plate negative of Mayville's Main Street. In contrast are thirty-five 35mm negatives."
Poster

David Marcou Photo Exhibition Poster

Date: 1987
Description: A poster advertising David Marcou's photography exhibit at the Pill Hill Gallery in Seoul, South Korea.
Photograph

Krueger Family

Date: 1982
Description: Edgar Krueger (with cane) and his family pose in front of a photograph of earlier generations of Kruegers at the opening of the "Six Generations Here" exhi...
Photograph

Photos on Display

Date: 01 1989
Description: Photographers Edgar Mueller and Ernie Anheuser display some of Ernie's photos.
Photograph

Preparations for the 3rd Annual Greenbush Reunion

Date: 1982
Description: Nancy Schmelzer holds up a sign about the 2nd Annual Greenbush Reunion, as Pete Gianquinto stands beside her. Seated from left to right are Josephine Brasc...
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt and Thematic Panel

Date: 10 1984
Description: Paul Vanderbilt, the curator emeritus of Iconographic collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, poses in front of one of his Thematic Panel...
Manuscript

Earth Metal Advertisement

Date: 1981
Description: Back of a "Get The Red Edge" advertisement mailer for IH patented Earth Metal disk blades. Text highlights the "super hard and super tough" disk blades tha...
Photograph

Remembering

Date: 1981
Description: Six family members looking at a photograph album outdoors. Caption reads: "REMEMBERING. Norma Clemente and her family looked through the family album at he...
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt Portrait

Date: 1986
Description: Casual portrait of Paul Vanderbilt taken in his Emeritus office at the Wisconsin Historical Society. He was the Curator of the Iconographic Collections fro...
Poster

"Fifteen Hundred Little Pictures" Exhibit Poster

Date: 02 10 1986
Description: Silkscreen poster announcing the Fifteen Hundred Little Pictures Polaroid Photography show. The photographers names are Joann Jensen, Mark Porter and Mike ...

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