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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen. |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Walt Kelly posing with a person dressed as Pogo, his cartoon creation, and Jo Ingelfield, who was selected to be Pogo's first lady if he successfully won h... |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Walt Kelly, famous cartoonist, holds up two versions of his Pogo character to a Pogo impersonator. |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Cartoonist Walt Kelly draws small sketches of Pogo and signs autographs for two fans. |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Cartoonist Walt Kelly talks with two men at the Sertoma Club luncheon. |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Walt Kelly appears at West High School during his book tour promoting his book, "I Go Pogo." |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Cartnoonist Walt Kelly draws one of his famous cartoon characters for an audience of veterans at the Veterans Hospital. |
| Date: | 04 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy writes in a note pad during the testimony of General Miles Reber, the first witness during the Army-McCarthy hearings, what the ... |
| Date: | 04 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Two members of the Madison Art Association spring banquet committee write out invitations to the banquet. Left, Mrs. Thomas R. (Madeline) Hefty, Edgewater... |
| Date: | 04 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the winners of the American Legion Essay Contest, a school official, and officers of the American Legion Auxiliary. Seated, left to right... |
| Date: | 07 09 1951 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 25 1956 |
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| Description: | A typed letter written to Myles Horton of Highlander Folk School from Rosa L. Parks. |
| Date: | 02 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Luida Sanders (right), a "writer's aide" and a state public health educator, presents first and second prizes to two writers and patients at the Madison V... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Informal meeting in the woods in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro is reclining on a hammock talking to a crouching man in the for... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Informal meeting in the woods in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. An unidentified man is crouching in the foreground, Fidel Castro reclines on... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Raúl Castro is smoking a cigarette and leaning towards someone writing in a notebook during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin and probably Celia Sanchez ar... |
| Date: | 10 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Adlai Stevenson is seated in a room with several other men. |
| Date: | 06 28 1954 |
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| Description: | James Quinn, witness of the events leading to the murder and suicide of Doris Russ and Guy Russ, talks to either police investigator John Henry or newspape... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| 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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