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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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Martha and Notley Henderson

Date: 1885
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...
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Ezekiel Gillespie

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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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Ezekiel Gillespie

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie.
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Frederick Douglass

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Description: An engraving of a young Frederick Douglass.
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Portrait of Benjamin Butts

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Description: Studio portrait of Benjamin Butts wearing bow tie and suit.
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Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson Publicity Still

Date: 09 25 1946
Description: Publicity still of actor Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson.
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Julian Bond in Madison

Date: 12 1969
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.
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Solomon Freeman

Date: 1885
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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Governor John Gilligan at Event

Date: 03 1971
Description: Group portrait of one woman and four men posing together. Caption reads: "NY RDD 3/1971. L to R: Marian Wright Edelman [civil rights activist and Yale boar...
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Hank Aaron Signing Baseball

Date: 03 1962
Description: Three men are standing behind a counter, two of them wearing Milwaukee Braves baseball caps. In the middle, Hank Aaron is signing a baseball. To his left, ...
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Ralph Abernathy

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Description: Three-quarter profile portrait of World War II veteran, Baptist minister, and civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy, the 2nd President of the Southern Chri...

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