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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
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 ...
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Orpheum Theatre Ticket Girls

Date: 02 25 1939
Description: Group portrait of seven ticket girls in matching uniform tops at Orpheum Theater, 216 State Street.
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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen McCabe

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Mary Ellen McCabe, 1954 Alice in Dairyland, enters State Fair Park in her official convertible, escorted by police officers on Harley-Davidson motorcycles ...
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Alice in Dairyland, Mary Ellen Jenks

Date: 09 02 1953
Description: Mary Ellen Jenks, the 1953 Alice in Dairyland, visits a Boy Scout camp, where she is surrounded by admiring scouts and a member of the navy.
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Nurse with Native Americans

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Description: A nurse poses on steps with a Native American mother and four children.
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross teaching jewelry-making to a group of patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Gray Ladies, shown at...
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Band Member with Tuba

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Description: A man wearing a band uniform rests his hand on a tuba and poses for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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Retiring Asssistant Fire Chief S.C.A. Ratcliffe

Date: 02 22 1949
Description: Assistant Fire Chief Sebastian C.A. Ratcliffe shaking hands with three fire fighters with whom he has teamed to fight many fires in Madison. The photograph...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, reenacts being admitted to Lake View Sanatorium on July 9, 1947. Discussing her case are Dr. John K....
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Taking Notes

Date: 10 11 1966
Description: American journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, who covered three wars, taking notes on an interview with Major Kim Pil Dal, a Korean nurse in Vietnam. Capti...
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Lutefisk Supper

Date: 12
Description: Several women are served lutefisk at a lutefisk supper at the Dane County Home. There are plates of lefse and dinner rolls on the table.
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Webb TB Album: Is Everybody Happy!

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Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of st...
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Transtar Rose with ATA Roadeo Winners

Date: 1973
Description: Transtar Rose (a.k.a. Bonnie Nelson) poses with ATA Roadeo winners. Original caption reads: "Transtar Rose, known to drivers across America through Interna...
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EAA Convention

Date: 07 1998
Description: "Concorde flight attendant."
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EAA Convention

Date: 07 1998
Description: "Concorde Flight Attendant."
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Dane County Medical Assistants Scholarship

Date: 07 24 1957
Description: Donna Lou Ritchie, left, receiving a $100 scholarship from the Dane County Medical Assistants organization. She will begin nursing studies at Madison Gener...
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Arrival at Barbados Airport

Date: 1969
Description: Three travelers stand at the pickup location for gate 4 at the Barbados Airport. On the back of the photograph they are identified as "Jim Hoge (editor of ...
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Boy Scouts Drum, Bugle Dinner

Date: 01 15 1958
Description: Two members of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps, Dean Sutherland and Steve Yamamoto, talk with Allen Plater and Dr. Wade Plater.
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Nurse Examines Elderly Woman in Mobile Health Unit

Date: 1974
Description: A nurse IS examinING an elderly woman in a mobile health unit operated by the Alfred University School of Nursing. The mobile health unit traveled around c...
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Doctor Reading Results of Electrocardiograph

Date: 1974
Description: Dr. Virginia Barker, Nursing School Dean at Alfred University, is reading the results of an electrocardiograph in a mobile health unit. The mobile health ...

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