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Poster

Rural Highways Poster

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Description: A poster promoting the importance of good roads. Image includes a horse-drawn wagon in the driving rain.
Photograph

Ernestine Bishop with Children

Date: 07 1965
Description: A woman and two children, photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"Mrs. Ernestine Bishop, another most courageous freedom worker. Last summer she walk...

Photograph

Alma Schmidt Petersen

Date: 1980
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen, owner of Black Point Estate, poses seated in a green wicker chair on the porch of the main house. Standing behind her on the left an...
Photograph

At the Farmhouse

Date: 04 27 1968
Description: Members of the Petersen family gathered for a meal at the farmhouse, also referred to as the Baker house, at Black Point Estate. The room is open to the ra...
Photograph

On the Hakon Jarl

Date: 1965
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen (1894-1989) sits with her son, Conrad William Petersen (1924-2013) on the Norwegian cruise ship M.S. Hakon Jarl. Alma is holdi...
Photograph

Dr. Joseph Carpenter and Family

Date: 1973
Description: Dr. Joseph Carpenter, assistant professor of Afro-American Education & Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is seated with his family. His ...
Photograph

Aunt Nellie

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait of Helen Farnsworth Mears posing with her nephews Stuart Fargo, center, and Frank Fargo Jr. They are reading a book together. Mears is weari...
Photograph

Children at Wittnebel's Tavern

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Description: Brother and sister, Tom and Joyce Wittnebel, are sitting at a table inside the tavern.
Photograph

Septima and Yvonne Clark

Date: 08 1959
Description: Septima Clark and her granddaughter Yvonne are sitting together outdoors. They are attending an interracial workshop.

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