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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright sits by a sunlit window in his living room at Taliesin, with papers spread before him on a table. |
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| Description: | Seated portait of Amelia Feeley, supposedly the first circus bareback rider to perform in long dresses. Ms. Feeley hold a fan in her lap. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., taken in the Governor's Office in the Wisconsin State Capitol on his Inauguration Day. |
| Date: | 08 13 1936 |
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| Description: | African American factory worker in a ragged sweater standing outside International Harvester's Osborne Works (later Auburn Works). |
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| Description: | Brakeman Clarence Commingore (left) and Philip C. Haag on Wisconsin Central Railroad's caboose No #171. The shield caboose markers were exclusive with the ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A farmer smiling as he takes the wheel of his tractor. Behind him is a barn and silos. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm. |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of mail carrier Michael P. Adler, with his mailbag, an armful of mail, and a parcel. He is standing in front of a painted backd... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a butcher wearing an apron, and holding a cleaver and saw. |
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| Description: | An unidentified engineer and fireman in the cab of a Wisconsin & Michigan locomotive. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of inventor Obed Hussey (1782?-1860) as it appeared in W.T. Hutchinson's biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick. He is wearing an eye pa... |
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| Description: | Portrait of inventor John F. Appleby. The Wisconsin inventor is credited with inventing a knotting mechanism that made twine grain binders possible in the ... |
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| Description: | Mr. Asai and a woman (his wife?) standing on a rock. Mr. Asai was an International Harvester Company agent in Japan. |
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| Description: | Angus McVicar, commercial photographer in Madison, works intently in his darkroom. |
| Date: | 08 19 1940 |
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| Description: | Dr. William Reese, a Welsh tenor, and song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. |
| Date: | 08 06 1941 |
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| Description: | Harry Dyer (b.1864), a former logger and Mississippi riverman, with Helene Statman-Thomas. |
| Date: | 08 06 1941 |
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| Description: | Singer Harry Dyer (b.1864), right, and sound engineer Robert Draves. |
| Date: | 08 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Winifred Bundy, secretary of the School of Music at UW-Madison, and her uncle, Bill Morgan. Both recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. |
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