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Proxmire Work Day

Date: 06 30 1975
Description: Senator William Proxmire taking a lunch break during a workday spent collecting trash. These events kept Proxmire in touch with his Wisconsin constituents,...
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Rennebohm's on State Street

Date: 09 19 1970
Description: On a rainy day in 1970 a young man hawking newspapers takes cover under the overhang of the Rennebohm Drug Store at 676 State Street. After having being d...
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Union Election

Date: 02 06 1973
Description: Local P-28 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union votes for their officers.
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At the Barrel In

Date: 07 01 1977
Description: Barrel In customers toasted the old owner, Margaret Udovc, and new owner, John Lacher, as the two shook hands.
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Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter

Date: 1978
Description: Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter talk animatedly with a woman. This photograph is dedicated to Wilbur by Martha McSteen, the Dallas Regional Commissioner f...
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Nelson Cruikshank and Wilbur J. Cohen

Date: 12 01 1972
Description: The First Distinguished Citizen Award of the National Consumers League was given to Nelson H. Cruikshank, president of the American Federation of Labor (AF...
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Waiting to Be Bused to South Boston High School

Date: 1975
Description: Students from Columbia Point waiting outdoors to be bused to South Boston High School. Most of the students are walking, and a few are clowning for the cam...
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Woman Shaking Her Fist at School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: A woman in a crowd shaking her fist at a school bus. The bus is carrying minority students to another high school as part of a school integration program. ...
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South Boston

Date: 1975
Description: A woman and a teenage girl are looking out the windows of a building during unrest following court-ordered school desegregation busing.
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Protestors Waiting for School Bus

Date: 1975
Description: View from intersection towards protestors waiting for the school bus carrying minority students from Roxbury High School to South Boston High School. They ...
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Graduation Barn Dance

Date: 06 09 1978
Description: Six children are standing and posing on a barn floor. Behind them in the hayloft, and sitting in the background near an open barn door are children and adu...
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Snowmobile Tracery

Date: 1972
Description: Snowmobile tracks form a pattern in the snow on a farm. Farm buildings are on the left and trees are along a ridge on the right.

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