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| Description: | A little girl with corkscrew curls poses glumly. She wears a bib advertising Atlas Flour. |
| Date: | 12 18 1966 |
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| Description: | A man models what was touted as the latest styles for men. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of John Rugee, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
| Date: | 08 02 1963 |
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| Description: | Contestant baits her hook in Washington Park at the annual Milwaukee county park commission's fishing rodeo. |
| Date: | 08 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Knights of Columbus member celebrates at an annual "gay nineties" party. He stands next to a sign that advertises beer at five cents a glass. |
| 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: | 06 30 1950 |
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| Description: | The 1950 Alice in Dairyland, Virgina Ruth Peterson, posed sitting on a fence after she was chosen for the title from a field of 18 in the final judging at ... |
| Date: | 08 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Stasia Pokora, Executive Secretary of the American Relief for Poland, sang Polish songs, many of which she learned from Polish immigrants who roomed at her... |
| Date: | 07 25 1967 |
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| Description: | Twin brothers James and Thomas Quinn cheering for the Chicago White Sox at a baseball game. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Vel Phillips in her judges's black robe with an American flag behind her. She was the 13th District Children's Court judge, the first woman and... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Young woman facing to the right with her head turned toward viewer, hand on hip, wearing wire-rimmed eyeglasses, a flower in her hair, in long white dress ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Lutie Stearns, copied from 'The Echo' of 1922, the Milwaukee Normal Annual. |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor, the first photographer for the Milwaukee Journal, poses in a formal portrait, standing with his pipe. He wears a cravat style tie ... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie. Gillespie was born in 1818 and died March 31, 1892. In 1866, Milwaukee's Ezekiel Gillespie successfully s... |
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| Description: | Seated portrait of Governor Oscar Rennebohm. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Edward Salomon, on the back of which is autographed, "To Dr. C.B. Chapman in kind remembrance. Edward Salomon". |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Frederick Heath, newspaper man from Milwaukee. He wears a Social Democratic Party pin on his lapel. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of William H. Canfield (1819-1913), a Wisconsin civil engineer and surveyor who is best known for his studies of Sauk County's nat... |
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