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Coloma Business District

Date: 1910
Description: View down sidewalk on right side of the business district. There is an awning that reads "Restaurant" and "Fine Confectionary". Horses and a horse-drawn wa...
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Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View across unpaved street towards commercial buildings and storefronts on the right. The Wild Rose State Bank is on the far right. Caption reads: "Main St...
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Motion Picture Theatre in Wautoma

Date: 1967
Description: A closed motion picture theatre on State Highway 21 & 73 in Wautoma. A car is parked next to a sign that reads "No parking, Doctors only."
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Wautoma Neighborhood

Date: 1967
Description: A Wautoma, Wisconsin neighborhood. On both sides of the street in both the foreground and middle distance are service stations, beyond them is a residenti...
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Oxford Street

Date: 1967
Description: Traffic on Oxford Street (State Highway 21&73), with a parking meter in the foreground and old storefronts in the distance.
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Deep Rock Service Station

Date: 1967
Description: Deep Rock gasoline service station located at the intersection of Scott Street and Oxford Street (STH 21&73) in Wautoma, Wisconsin.
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Wautoma Street Scene

Date: 1967
Description: Zephyr gasoline station on STH 21&73 in Wautoma, Wisconsin.
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Boothville Quick Stop

Date: 1940
Description: Mobil gas station constructed of split stone. Next door, offering ice cream, soda pop, and groceries to motorists near Silver Lake, was the Boothville groc...
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Sunday School Picnic

Date: 1903
Description: Children on a decorated wagon during a Sunday school picnic of Caersalem Welsh Church.
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Kimball Drug Store

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Description: View of the interior of the Kimball Drug Store. A man and woman stand behind the counter in the very back of the store, partially obscured by a sign readin...
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Transporting Beehives at Henry's Honey Farm

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Description: Side view of a truck and flatbed trailer transporting beehives at Henry's Honey Farm. The truck is parked on a road among an open fields lined by trees. Th...
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Wautoma Police Chief Eats Grapes During Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: Wautoma Police Chief, Max Blader, in uniform, smiles while he eats grapes during a grape boycott picket.

El Jefe de Policía de Wautoma come uvas du...
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Teatro Campesino Acto

Date: 1967
Description: Teatro Campesino acto or skit dramatizing the experiences of Hispanic workers in America. Four actors stand together in costume with signs around their nec...
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Wautoma-Dakota Dump

Date: 1967
Description: Dump where discarded mattresses were resold to growers for migrant laborer camp use. A sign identifying the dump and its hours stands behind a barbed wire ...
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Grape Boycott Picketing

Date: 1968
Description: On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott....
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Wautoma Teens Counter-Picketing Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: Four young men sitting in front of a grocery store. The young man on the left is sitting beside a crate of corn, wearing sunglasses and holding a bag of gr...
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United Workers March to Madison

Date: 1966
Description: An Obreros Unidos (United Workers) member holding a sign, possibly like those in the background, that says "Juntarnos Para Ser Reconocidos/Hablar Para Ser ...
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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Francisco Rodriguez of Crystal City, Texas is picketing a Wautoma grocery store during the grape boycott in 1968. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organize...
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Cucumber Harvesting Machine

Date: 1968
Description: Two men are riding on a cucumber harvesting machine called the "Pickle Harvester" as labeled on the center between two lights. The man on the right, wearin...
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Farm Worker Gives Oath

Date: 1967
Description: Jesus Salas, center, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of ...

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