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Janette Serrec Standing Beside Pontiac Car

Date: 05 22 1933
Description: Janette Serrec, University of Wisconsin graduate, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Pontiac automobile she drov...
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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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Processing Sisal in Twine Mill

Date: 1948
Description: A female factory worker tends a machine to produce binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill.
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Madison Art Association

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Two members of the Madison Art Association spring banquet committee write out invitations to the banquet. Left, Mrs. Thomas R. (Madeline) Hefty, Edgewater...
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American Legion Essay Winners

Date: 04 05 1950
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...
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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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Flight Nurse with Patient in Anoxic Chamber

Date: 1945
Description: A flight nurse in an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate high altitude flying with little oxygen, placing an oxygen mask over a male patient's face. He ...
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Raúl Castro, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
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...
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Frame 34: Woman Signing Up - Freedom Registration

Date: 1964
Description: A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway.
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Payday for Army

Date: 1961
Description: South Vietnamese soldiers gathered around a table where a woman, the "paymistress," sits with payroll sheets. The men are collecting their pay in the villa...
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Eleanor Roosevelt and Millard Lampell

Date: 1963
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt and Millard Lampell are seated together looking at a notebook or script.
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We Saw You . . . at Correspondents' Conference

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: Annual Wisconsin State Journal correspondents' conference held at the Nob Hill Supper Club. Shown are some of the long-time area correspondents. Seated lef...
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New York Television Writer Gives Advice to Women

Date: 08 14 1957
Description: Mrs. Joyce Wickware, a former Madison resident, shares some advice to young women planning careers in the field of television. She has spent the past five ...

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