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Sara Sound Productions

Date: 1965
Description: James Kirchstein, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio (WVLR) station chief engineer and originator, inside his recording company, Sara Sound Productions, Inc. WVLR...
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Hotel Loraine Bar

Date: 08 23 1934
Description: Art deco style bar in the Hotel Loraine at 119-125 West Washington Avenue, with an art deco cigarette machine. The bartender is standing at his post behind...
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Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates

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Description: Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates, apparently wearing press badges, standing outdoors talking with an unidentified man. L.C. Bates, who is wearing a camera, is ap...
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Wisconsin Centennial Celebration

Date: 01 05 1948
Description: Charles E. Bohlen, United States State Department counselor, speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House during a program which launched Wi...
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm

Date: 07 25 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm seated at a desk at the Wisconsin State Capitol. An unidentified man is looking on.
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Bar Room at Hotel Astor

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Description: Interior of the bar room at Hotel Astor, built in 1904. Waiters, bartenders, and patrons stand around the bar, decorated in the Old World style.
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Mowrer-Cole Wedding

Date: 04 28 1939
Description: The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel...
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Packaging Onions

Date: 1965
Description: Farmers package onions for shipping. Two women and a man pack and sew closed mesh bags of onions. Another man hoists full bags onto a conveyor belt, while ...
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Devil's Lake CCC Workers Standing at a Saw

Date: 1935
Description: Group of Civilian Conservation Corps workers standing at a table saw. One man, probably a supervisor, wears a hat and tie.
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Aldo Leopold

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Aldo Leopold taken outdoors by his wife. He is wearing a suit and tie. A window, shrubs and a window box are behind him.
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Ice Cream Shop Interior

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Description: The interior of an ice cream shop, possibly Farmdale ice Cream Shop. Employees pose behind the long counters in uniform and several customers are seated at...
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Restaurant Bar

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Description: Six men standing in a dining room with a bar. Two of the men are bartenders, one of whom is pouring a drink. Three men dressed in suits are leaning against...
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Factory Manager at Fort Wayne Works

Date: 04 20 1929
Description: A man, likely a manager at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works, sits at a desk working on papers. There are phones, filing cabinets and other office ...
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Truck Drivers at Truck Stop Lounge

Date: 1966
Description: Two truck drivers at the base of a staircase leading up to the "Drivers Only Lounge" at an American Oil Company truck stop.
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Robert Doyle in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two...
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Ice Cutters

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Description: A large group of ice cutters posing for a portrait. They are holding a variety of implements and are sitting and standing on blocks of ice. Fence and build...
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Brooks McCormick

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Description: Brooks McCormick walking with two men near a building with a sign that reads, in part: "Przemysl Motoryzacyun." The location may be in Poland.
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Object on a Desk

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Description: View of objects on a Gisholt desk: blotter, notepad, pencils, earth globe, and cigarette ends in an ashtray.
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Dickey Chapelle at Matrix Dinner

Date: 03 30 1965
Description: Dickey Chapelle sitting and talking and smoking a cigarette prior to speaking at the Theta Sigma Pi Matrix Dinner in Memorial Union's Great Hall.
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Audience for a Beauty Pageant

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Description: Formally dressed audience members are watching a beauty pageant in a smoky beer hall. The men are wearing suits with ties; the women are wearing dresses an...

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