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Date: | 05 21 1948 |
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Description: | National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra... |
Date: | 01 17 1946 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a Swift Company striker being taken from the CIO picket line by police. The striker was reported to have been beaten and arrested. |
Date: | 1961 |
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Description: | Scene still with Sandro Panseri, as Domenico Cantoni, a young clerk being chastised by his boss, in Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto (The Sound of Trumpets, ... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Silent film star Pearl White behind the wheel of a 1915 Stutz Bearcat roadster with journalist George Vaux Bacon sitting beside her. The photograph was mad... |
Date: | 09 1918 |
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Description: | Silent film actor Niles Welch on the ground underneath the front of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Apparently he is using a carpenter's brace d... |
Date: | 09 1918 |
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Description: | Silent film actor Niles Welch is apparently using a wood saw on the engine of a 1918 Hudson Super Six touring limousine. Other carpenter's tools--a plane a... |
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Description: | President Harry Truman meets a packed room full of reporters. Merriman Smith, the "dean of the White House correspondents and the donor of this image," can... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, in a helmet and goggles, poses next to another pilot in front of an airplane. |
Date: | 12 11 1983 |
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Description: | Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader. |
Date: | 09 03 1965 |
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Description: | Dale Gross (1908-1980) in silhouette carrying two pails into a barn. |
Date: | 03 14 1985 |
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Description: | Young man wearing a knit cap and flannel shirt stacking bales of hay in a barn. |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle is sitting on the USS "Boxer" with cameras around her neck and luggage at her side. |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle getting into a small airplane. She is wearing a pilot's helmet, goggles and a scarf, and is carrying a parachute. |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | A young woman takes a photograph of Admiral Van Hook, Secretary Knox, and General Frank Andrews at Coco Solo Submarine Base Officer's Club. |
Date: | 1923 |
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Description: | W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats. |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Production still during the filming of "Citizen Kane." Orson Wells smokes a pipe and directs Dorothy Comingore (playing Susan Alexander Kane) from a wheel... |
Date: | 1997 |
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Description: | Hmong farm family selling vegetables on Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square at Madison's Farmer's Market. |
Date: | 08 28 1984 |
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Description: | Mary Beaudry, a temporary employee at International Business Machines, works on word-processing and computer equipment. |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | Negotiations between Neil Hawpetoss, a leader of the Menominee Warrior Society that had seized the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in January 1975, and a memb... |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
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