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Orpheum Theatre Usher

Date: 1936
Description: Orpheum Theatre usher, Rolland W. Hamelin, who had recently received an appointment to West Point. 216 State Street.
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Office Work

Date: 1950
Description: Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space.
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Carson Gulley Standing Behind Buffet Table

Date: 01 30 1945
Description: Elevated view of chef Carson Gulley, standing behind a buffet table.
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Ellen Sabin

Date: 11 29 1945
Description: Miss Ellen C. Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, on her 95th birthday. Miss Sabin was one of America's most eminent woman in the field o...
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Novak and Vice-President Bush

Date: 05 28 1981
Description: Journalist Robert Novak, a tape recorder to his right, interviews George Herbert Walker Bush. Bush inscribed the portrait, "pleasant memories."
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American Red Cross Blood Center

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Volunteer worker Mrs. Charles (Elnora) Wirth stands at the counter in the American Red Cross Blood Center canteen, while nurses' aide Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) N...
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LBJ and Merriman Smith

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Description: Merriman Smith of UPI, the "dean of the White House correspondents," with President Lyndon Johnson, in the White House. Smith enjoyed a close relationship ...
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Juliette Blackman Breese (Mrs. Cecil Bennett) with William and Zona Gale Breese

Date: 1930
Description: A portrait of the bride, Juliette, seated, with her father, William Llewellyn Breese, and step-mother Zona Gale Breese, standing behind her. There is an ar...
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Workers' Unity House Dining Room

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Description: View down center of the dining room, looking toward the entrance door. The hall leading from the door to the dining room proper has a long carpet running i...
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Sarnoff of NBC

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Description: Robert Sarnoff (center), president of NBC, at a social gathering in Tokyo with Cecil Brown, the head of NBC's bureau in Tokyo, and Martha Brown.
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Illegal Gambling Machine

Date: 04 04 1942
Description: An illegal gambling machine in a dining area of a restaurant. A waiter is visible through a doorway on the left.
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Unitarian Anniversary

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: The head table at a dinner marking the 75th anniversary of the First Unitarian Society of Madison. Seated at the table are Frank Lloyd Wright and, next to ...
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Taliesin Fellowship Choir

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright visited the First Unitarian Society Meeting House, a building he designed, to be filmed by the Omnibus television program. In addition t...
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Flower Arrangement

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Little Garden Club members Pearl Nordeen and Lydia Shafer posing with their floral arrangement at the Red Cross office.
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Fashion

Date: 08 06 1958
Description: Stephanie Foster modeling a sable brown moire taffeta cocktail dress, styled with a bubble skirt and elbow length gloves.
Postcard

The Pyramid Supper Club

Date: 1960
Description: Colorized postcard view of bartenders and group of people at an Egyptian-themed cocktail bar, the Pyramid Supper Club, in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
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Wilbur Cohen with President Johnson in the Oval Office

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Description: Wilbur J. Cohen is with President Lyndon Johnson and two others of the President's economic advisors in the Oval Office of the White House.
Postcard

A Maid in a Mob Cap

Date: 1900
Description: A young woman dressed as a maid in a long apron and wearing a mob cap, stands outdoors against the side of a house. She has a set of keys hanging from her ...
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Herman Goering and Louis P. Lochner

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Description: Herman Goering, Louis Lochner and an unidentified man standing in a row indoors in a room with a large window in the background. In the room is stuffed fur...
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Brooks McCormick with Group of Men

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Description: Brooks McCormick sitting and talking with a group of men around a small coffee table. The location may be in Poland.

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