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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 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Henry "Hank" Aaron at bat during a Milwaukee Braves pre-season game. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
| Date: | 11 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Uptown Post #400 Drill Team in formation firing a salute on Armistice Day while passers-by pause to pay their respects. |
| 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: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Gypsy Rose Lee (aka Louise Hovick, 1914-1970) with a large muskie she caught in a northern Wisconsin lake. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Two boys on the class-C scow sailboat "Bobalong III," with one boy balancing off the side while standing with one leg on the bilge keel. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Upper part of the front facade of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Camp Randall Field House. There is a "W" symbol near the peak. |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America, relaxing after a union meeting. |
| Date: | 04 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Presenting an outboard motor door prize at the annual dance of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America. "Howie Roth presented the prizes with the ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color guards marching past the Wisconsin State Capitol carrying flags as a crowd looks on. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of City Stadium, former home of the Green Bay Packers from 1925 to 1956. Currently it is the home of the Green Bay East High School football te... |
| Date: | 05 1958 |
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| Description: | A father, Peter Froeming, watching as his three children George, Robert, and Roseann are playing with wooden blocks, with a small toy canoe in the foregrou... |
| Date: | 01 24 1951 |
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| Description: | North addition to University of Wisconsin-Madison Camp Randall Stadium, with steel framework connecting to the old structure on the east side. |
| Date: | 02 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Zoo director George Speidel and members of the Milwaukee County Zoological society talking over plans for the new zoo while looking at a tentative model fo... |
| Date: | 08 30 1953 |
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| Description: | View from the beach of people swimming, playing in the sand, and sunbathing. |
| Date: | 08 1958 |
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| Description: | A group of people watching a parade along a sidewalk in the rain. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Warren Spahn, famous left-handed pitcher of the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, completes a pitch to the batter. |
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