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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: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 07 31 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising. |
| 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: | 07 23 1952 |
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| Description: | Photo Copy service postcard display rack featuring Madison scenes: top to bottom, University of Wisconsin football game (P3055), B. B. Clarke beach (P3061)... |
| Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street at night of the Photo Copy Service and Madison Film Productions, Inc., building at 211 West Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 08 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Frederica McCutcheon with a display of portraits and photo equipment, at her studio, 638 State Street. |
| Date: | 08 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Frederica McCutcheon stands near a display of portraits and photographic equipment, at her studio, 638 State Street. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Phelps and Ruth Bennett Dyer have lunch in the office at the Bennett Studio as Miriam Bennett looks on. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert Rauschenberg makes cyanotype art by shining a light over a nude female model who is lying on photosensitive blueprint paper. The print was to be use... |
| Date: | 02 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy laughs in a posed photograph in which he holds a UPI news photograph of a British POW in Korea who denounced his citiz... |
| Date: | 11 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Three judges select the winning slides for the third annual color slide show held at the Community Center. Left to right are Aaron Bohrod, artist in reside... |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett Studio Christmas portrait of two women, Miriam and Ruth, daughters of H.H. Bennett, and one man, Oliver Reese, posed with many cameras, some o... |
| Date: | 11 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Del (Gerd) Myren, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, develops a print in a darkroom with equipment purchased with money from the Christma... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "Cows were nosy when a camera was set up in a field near Theresa." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "Cows were nosy when a camera was set up in a field near Theresa." |
| Date: | 09 19 1953 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a double wedding. The wedding was held September 19, 1953 in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. On the right is the wedding party of Norbert Mey... |
| Date: | 10 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Tenney Building at the corner of South Pinckney and East Main Street on the Capitol Square. Businesses pictured on South Pinckney Street includ... |
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