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Portable Confessional

Date: 02 18 1943
Description: Portable confessional, rear view, priest's side, taken in Photo Copy Service studio, 211 West Mifflin Street. Taken for Burgess Laboratory.
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Shooting a Negative

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Co. plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is making a halftone negative, the first step in making a photo engra...
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Governor Kohler and Foreign Dignitaries

Date: 06 1955
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., meeting with a delegation of Latin American newspapermen in his office at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Photographic Remote Flash

Date: 03 13 1947
Description: June D. (Mrs. Sheldon) Wengel serving as a model for a remote flash tripped via a photo-electric cell invented in Madison by Sheldon Wengel and Howard La C...
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Dreyfus "State of the State" Address

Date: 01 31 1979
Description: Framed by a window in the Assembly Chamber door, Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus addresses the Wisconsin Legislature.
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Nehru Visits Madison

Date: 11 04 1949
Description: Elevated view of a large crowd of people gathered on the University of Wisconsin Union Terrace to listen to a speech by Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Ne...
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Harry Conley and Arthur Vinje

Date: 03 19 1954
Description: Harry Conley, left, Director of Athletics in the Superior school system, and Arthur M. Vinje, Wisconsin State Journal photographer, sitting on the bleacher...
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Obey Photo Shoot

Date: 01 1969
Description: A photo shoot for David R. Obey's first campaign for Congress picturing him as assistant majority leader with Majority Leader Bob Huber (partially obscured...
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We Saw You . . . at Lutheran Conference

Date: 01 28 1959
Description: Thousands of Lutherans attend the National Lutheran Evangelism conference held in Madison at the Dane County Fairgrounds. The conference has its own public...
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Photographers in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 08 23 1978
Description: Photojournalists Bob Rashid (center), and Glenn Trudel (right) outside the Wisconsin State Capitol building. The third man on the left is unidentified.
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The Press at the Bernie Sanders Rally

Date: 04 03 2016
Description: Members of the press setting up while standing behind their cameras and tripods at the Bernie Sanders rally being held in the Kohl Center.
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WKOW 27

Date: 04 03 2016
Description: Members of the press setting up their cameras at the Bernie Sanders rally held in the Kohl Center. On the right, a woman is standing and watching, while ho...
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Photographer Rick Wood

Date: 2014
Description: Slightly elevated view of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Richard (Rick) Wood. He is kneeling on the sidelines at a football game at Camp Randall M...
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Madison Newspapers New Photoengraving Lab

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi...
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Inauguration Day for Governor Nelson and the First Lady

Date: 01 05 1959
Description: People lining up in the governor's conference room at the Wisconsin State Capitol to congratulate Governor and Mrs. Gaylord (Carrie) Nelson after his inaug...
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Edwin Stein, Wisconsin State Journal Photographer

Date: 10 24 1958
Description: Edwin Stein, photographer for the Wisconsin State Journal, poses on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps in Madison.

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