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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Edna Ferber with Pearls

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls.
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" Drawing

Date: 02 03 1947
Description: Clare Severance with her "Old Tree" drawing, which received the Joseph R. Rothchild prize of $25 in graphics at the Madison Artists exhibition.
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WHA Radio Station

Date: 01 1948
Description: Mae Hoeft, sitting on right, and Rosalind (Ronnie) Krug Fenz, standing on ladder, are assembling recordings for a WHA Radio music program.
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Dorothy French

Date: 08 02 1948
Description: Mrs. Louis N. (Dorothy) French, new women's editor for the Wisconsin State Journal.
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Portrait of Barbara Muckler, "Wisconsin State Journal," Society Department, assistant editor.
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Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 22 1949
Description: Sigrid Schultz, foreign correspondent and speaker at the annual Matrix banquet sponsored by the University of Wisconsin chapter of Theta Sigma Phi at the M...
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Miss Olive White

Date: 1949
Description: Miss Olive White of the Home Economics Department at International Harvester's Evansville Works. She is sitting at a desk, with a phone to her left ear. A ...
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National League of American Pen Women

Date: 07 09 1951
Description: Dr. Eloise Gerry at her desk at the United States Forest Products Laboratory where she is a distinguished wood technologist. Dr. Gerry, whose research arti...
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Taking Notes

Date: 10 11 1966
Description: American journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, who covered three wars, taking notes on an interview with Major Kim Pil Dal, a Korean nurse in Vietnam. Capti...
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Questions about Christmas Gifts

Date: 12 30 1953
Description: Helen Jansky, head of the circulation department at the Madison Free Library, displays a few of the books used to help library patrons use their Christmas ...
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Amelia on Tour

Date: 11 08 1928
Description: Amelia Earhart (first row, right), the speaker for a meeting of the Advertising Women of New York. Elsie Wilson, president of the club is seated next to he...
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Interview with a Star

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Description: Irene Norman, film editor of the "Milwaukee Sentinel," interviewing the film star Bebe Daniels.
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Jayne Blodgett

Date: 1949
Description: "Jayne Blodgett - Conover Model." A photographer with a 4x5 press camera is shooting from the opposite direction.
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Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 20 1956
Description: Attending the annual Matrix Banquet are Helen Worden Erskine (left), guest speaker, and Jane Johannsen, president of the U.W. Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, t...
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Laird's Office

Date: 2008
Description: Former Wisconsin congressman and defense secretary Melvin Laird seated at the replica of his former offices built by the Marshfield Clinic as part of the L...
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Reporter at Inauguration Ceremony

Date: 01 1985
Description: "This is a Milwaukee TV reporter who covered the inauguration in Madison."
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Margaret Warner

Date: 04 07 2011
Description: Portrait of PBS NewsHour co-anchor Margaret Warner in her office.
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Annual Matrix Banquet

Date: 03 12 1957
Description: Attending the annual banquet for members of Matrix, an organization for women journalists, are Alice Kearby, Milwaukee, left, a Theta Sigma Phi journalism ...

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