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Christopher Latham Sholes

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Description: Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Historical Society Librarian's Office

Date: 04 1892
Description: Daniel Steele Durrie, librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at his desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph ...
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Chapelle with Soldiers and Woman

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers.
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Ansel Adams in his Home Office

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams talking on the telephone in his office at his home.
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Ansel Adams Measures Bellows

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams measuring the bellows extension of his camera, to help determine the proper exposure, for a photograph to be made in a wooded area...
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Ansel Adams looking through his Logbook

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams standing near his 8 x 10 field camera and thumbing through his exposure record logbook in a wooded area near Point Lobos.
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Christopher Latham Sholes

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Description: A portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. Sholes was an editor in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and later continued this work in Milwa...
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Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams checks the time as he records exposure information into his logbook during a photo shoot. His 8 x 10 field camera is in the background.
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Ansel Adams in his Home Office

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams, seated, talks on the telephone in his home office.
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Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams adjusts the exposure prior to making a photograph with his 8 x 10 field camera at Point Lobos.
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Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams replaces the dark slide into the camera having just made a photograph at Point Lobos.
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Ansel Adams Loads Camera

Date: 1968
Description: Low angle view of Ansel Adams loading a film holder into his field camera at Point Lobos.
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"The Mud King"

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: A bearded young man, Michael McCormick of Madison, was crowned the "The Mud King." He is covered in dark mud from the banks of nearby Rowan Creek holding a...
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Men with Oxen at Mill

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men are standing with three or four teams of oxen pulling wagons at what appears to be a mill. Several buildings and a chute are in the backgrou...
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Men Reading Agricultural Education Material

Date: 1915
Description: Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural...
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Merry Christmas To The Boss

Date: 1930
Description: Eight page holiday card. The inside four pages are shorter and narrower, jogged to the top. Four views are shown. On the front is a "Boss," sitting at his ...
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Havana Parade, Cuban Revolution

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Description: Parade celebrating Fidel Casto's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban Revolution. 26th of July Movement soldiers are riding on top of a captured Sher...
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Police Dog

Date: 02 1983
Description: "Police officer, Bill Poellot, shows off his police dog to Cliff Dogs, Neil Coulter, Gordon Loehrke, and Lynn Zimmel."
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St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Date: 11 1993
Description: "High winds played havoc with the cross on St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Steeplejack, Tim McNitt, of Kiel was called in to rectify the 'leaning cross.'"
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Men at Joe Levine's Camp #4

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Description: A group portrait of the men at Joe Levine's camp no. 4. Included in the portrait are a dog, oxen, horses and a dead deer.

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