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Houdini, Harry

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Description: Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive.
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Jack Carson

Date: 1920
Description: Jack Carson at the age of ten posing on front steps wearing a hat and leaning on a walking cane.
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Frederic March on Fraternity House Steps

Date: 1920
Description: Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class.
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Agnes Moorehead as a Child

Date: 1903
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush.
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Two Children Holding Puppy

Date: 04 28 1968
Description: Two children holding a puppy.
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Girl with Bubbles

Date: 09 30 1984
Description: A young girl playing with soap bubbles outdoors.
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Staying Cool Outside

Date: 06 22 1983
Description: Woman stays cool by sitting in a small plastic pool while pouring cups of water on her head.
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Howard Hughes, Millionaire Fly Boy

Date: 1934
Description: Howard Hughes, looking every inch the millionaire playboy, with his U.S. Army Boeing pursuit plane. Hughes had rebuilt the plane in order to increase its s...
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Communing with the Turtle

Date: 05 07 1967
Description: A boy is holding a turtle close to his face and gazing into its eyes.
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Dickey Chapelle

Date: 1940
Description: "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo...
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Vernon Castle and his Monkey Jeffrey

Date: 1918
Description: Vernon Castle, half of the glamorous Castle dancing team, enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and flew over 150 missions at the Western Fron...
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Double Header

Date: 06 09 1988
Description: Twins from the Sting of Wauwatosa warm up for Milwaukee Kickers League soccer tournament. They are wearing matching t-shirts and are spiking two soccer bal...
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Ice Cream Treat

Date: 08 28 1967
Description: Cloaked in a blanket, a girl eats ice cream at the Muskego Veterans of Foreign Wars County Fair day.
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Twin Brothers Cheer Chicago White Sox

Date: 07 25 1967
Description: Twin brothers James and Thomas Quinn cheering for the Chicago White Sox at a baseball game.
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Dickey Chapelle and Leo Cherne

Date: 09 21 1962
Description: Dickey Chapelle poses with Leo Cherne outside the Hudson Institute.
Poster

One Man, One Vote

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Description: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster of an African American man in a straw hat and overalls seated in front of a weathered building. Text in th...
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Man Sitting on a Rock

Date: 1939
Description: Portrait of a bearded man sitting on a rock. The tops of the heads of three people are visible in the lower foreground.
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Dickey Chapelle Looking Up

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Description: Close-up of Dickey Chapelle as she looks up at something in the sky.
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Reverend Wayne Dillabaugh and Jack McManus

Date: 06 27 1978
Description: Wayne Dillabaugh, left, poses with Jack McManus.
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Agnes Moorehead

Date: 1904
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age sitting in a handsome wicker baby carriage outdoors.

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