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Preparing a Negative for Stripping

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Company plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is coating the wet plate negative with rubber and collodion to ma...
Photograph

Interior of Congregational Church

Date: 1875
Description: Interior view of the Congregational Church on West Washington Avenue with a good view of the stained glass rose window, from the series "The Beauties of Ma...
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Freedom Train "Spirit of 1776"

Date: 06 24 1948
Description: View towards the front of the Freedom Train.
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Hansen Auto Body Co. Building

Date: 10 29 1933
Description: Advertisement using 4248B-1. Hansen Auto Body Co. Bldg, 113 - 123 S Blair Street. Signs painted on the building: "Auto trimming glass replacement" Torgeson...
Postcard

Cecropia Moth

Date: 1905
Description: Photographic postcard of a cecropoia moth, Hylophora Cecropia, on a potted geranium. Caption reads: "Cecropia Moth."
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Buttonhole Camera Negative 9

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Description: Six circular images, of small groups of people in a variety of activities, on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera.
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Panoramic View of Picnic Point

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Description: Panoramic photograph from top of Bascom Hall facing northwest, showing Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin campus. Washburn Observatory visible to ...
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"Geometric with Round Window"

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Description: Towering abstract sculpture of cast concrete mortar on a square base, identified as "Geometric with Round Window," near the side of a house. It is composed...
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"Geometric with Round Window"

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Description: Towering abstract sculpture of cast concrete mortar on a square base, identified as "Geometric with Round Window," near the side of a house. It is composed...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Fence and Church

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated wintertime view of the intersection of South Carroll and West Main Streets, showing the First Baptist Church constructed in 1854, the wooden fence...
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera Negative 1

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest camera owned by Stanley Hanks. These six images are of young men engaged in out...
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera Negative 4

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. The images are of young men and women posing near a shoreline or on boa...
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Buttonhole Camera Negative 6

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Three are of puppies, one is of a small boy, and another is of a group ...
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera Negative 12

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Five of the images are of various young women, each posing alone in fro...
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera Negative 14

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Description: Five circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. One spot is unexposed. The five images are of women posing outdoors, a...
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera Negative 15

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. The images are of a variety of excursion boats, sailboats, and horse-dr...
Photograph

Buttonhole Camera Negative 16

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Two of the six images are of dogs standing on their hind legs. The othe...
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Buttonhole Camera Negative 17

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. The six images are out of focus. One is of a dog, the others are of men...
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Buttonhole Camera Negative 19

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Description: Six circular images on a glass plate negative from the Stirn Concealed Vest Camera. Most are out of focus. There are two images of dogs, three of women, an...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 12 11 1925
Description: Rear view of a man using a horse to pull mower along a roadside. He is holding onto the brim of his hat. There is a wooden fence on the left, and three uti...

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