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| Information on over 7,000 photographers who were active in Wisconsin from about 1840 to 1976. |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Thomas Blake, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Edward R. Farber, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,... |
| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Sons of the American Legion in formation outside the Witt Studio. Two of them hold flags. Names are (left to right), Don Frank, Jerry Zander, Ralph Meyer, ... |
| Date: | 11 11 1928 |
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| Description: | McVicar's Photo Service window display during University of Wisconsin-Madison homecoming. |
| Date: | 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Interior of H.H. Bennett's studio gift shop with Indian souvenirs. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A panoramic aerial view of the Isthmus taken from a kite. Lake Mendota is to the right in the background with Picnic Point jutting into the lake. The photo... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un... |
| Date: | 09 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Photographer from Kaufmann and Fabry on top of an International C-1 truck at the "A Century of Progress" Worlds Fair. Kaufmann and Fabry were the official ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe... |
| Date: | 09 10 1960 |
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| Description: | This exhibit entitled "Pharmacies U.S.A." greeted nearly one-half million visitors at the main entrance of the U.S. Pavilions at the International Trade Fa... |
| Date: | 02 04 1929 |
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| Description: | Cameraman riding on a platform pulled by a McCormick-Deering tractor. The man appears to be filming the tractor while it is in motion. |
| Date: | 07 12 1929 |
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| Description: | Cameraman filming a farmer on a McCormick-Deering Farmall Regular tractor with attached cultivator as three men look on. |
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