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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Martha and Notley Henderson with their three children. Their son Allen is standing. The Hendersons were e... |
| Date: | 07 04 1876 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of "Professor" William H. Noland in costume as leader of the Mock Parade, or "Horribles". He was a barber, musician, chiropodist, and publi... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frederick Douglass in formal attire. From the book entitled "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass". |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie. Gillespie was born in 1818 and died March 31, 1892. In 1866, Milwaukee's Ezekiel Gillespie successfully s... |
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| Description: | Image of Frederick Douglass taken from his autobiography "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass...". |
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| Description: | Dr. DuBois seated at his desk at Atlanta University where he initiated and edited the Atlanta University Studies on Negro Americans. |
| Date: | 02 23 1920 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Emmanuel Philipp in the Governor's Office during a conference with a delegation of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians. Executive Messenger Samuel... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Louis Hughes, seated and holding a book. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Butts posing outside the Wisconsin Historical Society where he worked as a messenger. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Benjamin Butts wearing bow tie and suit. |
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| Description: | William Kelley on left shaking the hand of Helen Brown as Art Schmidt of Schlitz Brewing Company looks on. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Velma Bell Hamilton, born 1910. Born in Beloit, Mrs. Hamilton served as a member of the first Governor's Commission on Human Rights. In 1943 sh... |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actress Hattie McDaniel, in head scarf and blouse. |
| Date: | 09 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Publicity still of actor Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson. |
| Date: | 12 1969 |
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| Description: | Julian Bond wearing a suit and standing in a wood paneled room with his arms crossed. Another man is standing at left holding a microphone. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Solomon Freeman wearing a suit and sitting in a chair. Solomon Freeman was a slave purchased by Abraham Bush as a boy. The Bush family moved to... |
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