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Radiophone

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Description: A woman takes down menus and recipes that she hears on her radiophone.
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Walt Kelly & Pogo on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Walt Kelly arriving in Madison at the Chicago & North Western depot, is met by a person dressed as Pogo, one of his cartoon characters.
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A.A. Lattimer

Date: 08 11 1944
Description: A.A.L., also known as Alva A. Lattimer, columnist and poet whose poems have appeared on the editorial page of the Wisconsin State Journal, working a...
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Man Writing at Desk

Date: 1930
Description: A man sitting at a desk writing on a tablet. A poster illustrated with cows is hanging on the wall in front of him, reading "World All-American Selections ...
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Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber

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Description: Samuel Goldwyn and Edna Ferber pose together wearing fashionable attire.
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Edna Ferber, Writing

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Description: Portrait of Edna Ferber seated and writing with a pen.
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Studio Portrait of Man with Luggage

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Description: A studio portrait of a man who is posing standing with one leg resting on luggage and holding a pencil and a bill pad in front of a painted backdrop. He is...
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Two Ho-Chunk Men Seated at a Table

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on a prop fence on the left writing a letter on a small table with his right...
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Anita Loos

Date: 1916
Description: Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York.
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Anita Loos

Date: 1918
Description: The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ...
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Richard Barthelmess Writing

Date: 1917
Description: A water-damaged, thoroughly-retouched publicity still of Richard Barthelmess sitting at a writing desk. It apparently appeared in "Photoplay Magazine" some...
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IH Dealer Takes Scrap Drive Pledge

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Chester E. Seif signs a pledge of cooperation with Governor Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. H.J. Brosnahan (left), mana...
Poster

Gettysburg Address

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Description: The text of the famous speech by Abraham Lincoln with an oval portrait. The oval around the portrait is embossed.
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The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword

Date: 1893
Description: Full-length studio photograph of Louis Brosemer wearing a suit and hat. He is standing before a United States flag holding an oversized pen as though it wa...
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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.
Print

John Emerson — Anita Loos: Productions for Paramount

Date: 1918
Description: Full page display ad for the husband and wife filmmaking team of John Emerson and Anita Loos in the 1918 edition of Wid's Yearbook, a motion picture trade ...
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"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" Movie Still

Date: 1956
Description: Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a...
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Vera Caspary and Dancers

Date: 1956
Description: The writer Vera Caspary, pen in hand, with male and female dancers handsomely posed behind her in a publicity still for the musical comedy play "Wedding in...
Manuscript

15th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Flag

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Description: Drawing of older gentleman presenting the regimental flag of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, presumably at a Grand Army of the Republic meeting. The image is ...
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Writers on Social Questions

Date: 12 1900
Description: A composite of photographs of "writers on social questions". Pictured are 1. Henry D. Lloyd 2. Richard T. Ely 3. Benjamin Kidd 4. Rev. George D. Herron 5. ...

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