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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Parade of two International "Jungle Yachts" on Times Square, with newsreel cameramen on top of cars in front of the procession. The "Jungle Yachts" were sp... |
| Date: | 09 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Parkway Theater (formerly Fuller Opera House). 6-10 W. Mifflin Street. McVicar's automobile is parked in front with a sign on the tire cov... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Group of cameramen waiting at train station, with American flags and banners set up in the background. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor standing in the middle of a street, holding a large camera. On the left, a car is driving by, and a person is walking on the sidewalk in t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Storefronts on Monroe Street, including Henry Esch Faville's Photography Shop at 1726 Monroe Street. Also shown is: George Burrowbridge, Barber, 1724 Monro... |
| Date: | 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Mr. Trimpey creates a self-portrait while photographing the window of his antique shop at 128 Fourth Avenue. The window display features dolls from the col... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The photographer stands beside an automobile with a 1935 Wisconsin license plate. Four large (possibly Norwegian) trunks with decorative painting are tied ... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of citizens of Akron welcoming city champions and visiting celebrities to the All-American Soap Box Derby in front of the Mayflower Hotel. A ... |
| Date: | 04 30 2010 |
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| Description: | Jim Widmer photographing the exterior of The Marsh Inn for his fish fry series. Andy Kraushaar photographed Widmer at work on his documentary project. Krau... |
| Date: | 07 31 1952 |
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| Description: | View from above of police officers forming a line through striking workers near International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption reads: "Harvest... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers on the sidewalk in front of a Kroger supermarket in Oshkosh demonstrating for and against the grape boycott. Signs read, "Eat Grapes Best Medicin... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "As Mayor John Lindsay leaves the bus, he is mobbed by onlookers, and greeted by John Widmer." |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey introduces a local resident (back to camera), to President Jimmy Carter. Many photographers stand around the edge of the group and a... |
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| Description: | Matthew Witt, photographer, at the wheel of a Ford automobile with two female passengers. The top of the automobile is down, and they are in front of an in... |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Green Thumb was a project sponsored by the National Farmers Union to find jobs for the elderly people who were able to work. During his district tour Congr... |
| Date: | 11 24 1963 |
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| Description: | Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, brother of the late president, escorts his mother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy fro... |
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| Description: | View from street of five men posing outside a Ford garage, a two-story brick building in an unidentified small Wisconsin town. Above the entrance is a "Gar... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the new Reierson Studio. An arrow leads from the sign painted at the top of the building to the studio door, which is to the right of the storef... |
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