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Corn and Brats on the Grill

Date: 06 25 1988
Description: St. Dominic's Catholic Parish members tend the grills at their annual festival.
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Houdini on a Rope in "Terror Island"

Date: 1920
Description: Escape artist Harry Houdini being tortured by cannibals in the silent film "Terror Island." Like the other films in which Houdini stared, the plot was desi...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Jacqueline Kennedy at Funeral

Date: 11 26 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy holds the flag that draped her late husband's coffin as she turns from the gra...
Poster

"O slavnosti a hostech" (A Report on the Party and the Guests) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Abstract collage image of various small figures in different poses against background consisting of yellow, red, and black col...
Poster

"End of a Priest" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Czechoslovakian film, "Faráruv konec." Illustrated image of a priest having each of his arms pu...
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Warlock Blessing a Man

Date: 06 1970
Description: A caped man standing on a sidewalk is placing his hands on the head of a kneeling man, while another man in a suit and sunglasses is looking on. Caption re...
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Date: 03 1989
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, in the original Kalachakra temple at the Deer Park Buddhist Center giving a talk to a group of University of Wisconsin Chin...
Photograph

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Date: 1998
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama at the Alliant Center.
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Date: 1998
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama at the Alliant Center.
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Date: 1989
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama at the UW-Madison Field House.
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama and Geshe L Sopa

Date: 1989
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama and Geshe L Sopa walking in the woods at the Deer Park Buddhist Center.
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Geshe L Sopa

Date: 1986
Description: Geshe L Sopa at a picnic on the grounds of the Deer Park Buddhist Center.
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Geshe L Sopa Summer Seminar

Date: 1977
Description: Geshe L Sopa and Deer Park Buddhist Center summer seminar participants at the course held at St. Benedict Monastery.
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Lee Benefee

Date: 11 14 1964
Description: A young man on the left is talking and gesturing to an older man on the right who is partially turned away towards an automobile in the background. Caption...
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Geshe L Sopa and Kalleen Mortensen

Date: 1977
Description: Geshe L Sopa, Kalleen Mortensen, and baby Sophi Atkins, Deer Park Buddhist Center.
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Brother Norbert Karpfinger

Date: 06 08 1989
Description: A man is smiling and leaning against a school desk. Caption reads: "Brother Norbert Karpfinger will be leaving Milwaukee."
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Apostolic Assembly Baptism

Date: 05 30 1965
Description: A man wearing a white shirt and pants is holding the arms of a woman who is wearing a white robe and spreading her arms out. They are both standing knee de...
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Youth Council Delivers Christmas Donations

Date: 12 24 1966
Description: Followed by father James Groppi, their advisor, four members of the Milwaukee Youth Council of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), are walk...

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