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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher. |
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| Description: | Edmund Eisenscher (1909-1995), posing with his dog. |
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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
| Date: | 10 23 1913 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Louis J. Petit, Milwaukee banker. |
| Date: | 10 08 1963 |
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| Description: | Two women model clothing. The woman on the left is wearing a wedding dress from 1946, and the other woman is wearing a Mount Mary gym suit. |
| Date: | 12 18 1966 |
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| Description: | A man models what was touted as the latest styles for men. |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop. |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A farmer shows off his percheron colt at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the turn of the century when a farmer's livelihood was dependent on his horses, the d... |
| 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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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Franz Brandecke, Milwaukee-based geologist. Worked on Wisconsin geological survey with Lapham. Handwritten text on front read... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Davenport Fisher (1832-1911), Milwaukee chemist. After earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Heidelberg Unive... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory workers from International Harvester's Milwaukee Works demonstrate the difference in their respective heights. The two shorter men, Schultz (left) ... |
| Date: | 04 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milwaukee Braves traveling secretary George Edward "Duffy" Lewis. After a notable major league career with the Red Sox, Yankees and Senators, L... |
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| Description: | Fire Department chief, sitting at a desk in a profile view. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The photographer J. Robert Taylor posing outdoors with his motorcycle in front of a large cannon. The cannon is mounted on a low pedestal and is enclosed b... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Front view of the photographer J. Robert Taylor on his motorcycle. |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head.... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of J. Robert Taylor with a pipe in his mouth. |
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