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Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
Date: | 12 05 1924 |
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Description: | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing iconic masks and white robes parading down King Street to Schroeder Funeral Home for the funeral of Police officer Herbert Drege... |
Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
Date: | 05 1960 |
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Description: | Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin. |
Date: | 04 30 1961 |
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Description: | Pictured left to right are James Dombrowski, Carl and Anne Braden, Frank Wilkinson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta King at a reception in Atlanta, Geo... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | A cartoon depicting the rescue of oppressed people by the United States, entitled: "What The United States Has Fought For". |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi speaking at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber protesting welfare cuts. Father Groppi is seated on the lef... |
Date: | 10 15 1935 |
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Description: | Interior view of the Congress Tavern, 111 Main Street, on a busy night. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
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Description: | Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957. |
Date: | 01 01 1914 |
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Description: | People sitting at a table in a dance hall wine room at 2:00 a.m. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Actor and singer Bing Crosby getting out of a drizzling rain and into an International Scout 4x4 pickup during his 23rd Annual Pro-Amateur Golf Championshi... |
Date: | 01 1952 |
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Description: | Herbert March speaking at the "Negro and White, Unite and Fight" rally in -8 F degree weather. |
Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ... |
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Description: | People assembled at storefront along the street of a small town in "poor farming country." |
Date: | 05 20 1931 |
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Description: | Interior of Joe's Place with bartender, possibly Joseph Puccio. The bar was located at 786 W. Washington Avenue in what was known as the Greenbush neighbor... |
Date: | 05 15 1933 |
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Description: | Jennie Justo with hat in hand, is embraced by her mother, Lena Justo, as she leaves for a year in the Milwaukee jail for being the alleged owner of a stude... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a group of raftsmen on a sandbar working a jack. |
Date: | 08 25 1967 |
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Description: | Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure. |
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