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Coffee Shop

Date: 05 1960
Description: Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin.
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Windshield Cleaning at Springfield Works

Date: 1957
Description: Factory workers clean the "sweep-around" windshield of an International A-100 "Golden Jubilee" truck at International Harvester's Springfield Works. A man ...
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Wiping Windshields of "Golden Jubilee" Trucks

Date: 1957
Description: Two factory workers work in the cab of an International A-100 "Golden Jubilee" truck while others wipe the "sweep-around" windshield at International Harve...
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We Saw You at Student Conference

Date: 09 26 1958
Description: About 60 people attended a Student Conference at the University of Wisconsin. Most of the participants were presidents of campus living units or councils. ...
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Son Gets Six-Month Term for Beating Up Father

Date: 12 04 1958
Description: Herbert Hilgendorf was sentenced to six months in jail for beating his father, Louis Hilgendorf, a town of Roxbury farmer.
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State Commission on Human Rights Officers

Date: 03 12 1959
Description: Newly elected officers of the State Commission on Human Rights. "They are, left to right, the Rev. Perry Saito, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, Stev...
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West Side Business Men's Banquet

Date: 01 06 1960
Description: Henry Forrer (left), D. Lee Watts, George Heidt, and Rollie Black attend the West Side Business Men's annual banquet.
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Madison Pickets Against Segregated Lunch Counters

Date: 02 27 1960
Description: Picketers walk the sidewalk in front of the F.W. Woolworth store on the Capitol Square. The protest was against the company's segregated lunch counter poli...
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Protest Rally on Library Mall

Date: 03 03 1960
Description: A crowd of five hundred University of Wisconsin students, some carrying protest signs, attend a rally on Library Mall. They are demonstrating peacefully ag...
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Republi-Capers Show

Date: 04 10 1961
Description: Attorney Lyall T. Beggs, second from the left, has a few funny stories to tell three assemblymen at the "Republi-Capers" Show at the Dane County Fairground...
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Alcoholism Program at Mendota

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Dr. Richard Thurrell, psychiatrist, stands at the front of a classroom in Mendota State Hospital trading ideas with a group of patients who are alcoholics.
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Ray Murphy

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Portrait of Ray Murphy, alcoholism counselor at Mendota State Hospital.
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Edwin Brunner, Family Court Judge

Date: 07 27 1960
Description: Edwin Bruner, the new Family Court Judge, who will take his oath of office Friday morning, is shown with his family in the glass-enclosed living room of th...
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Wisconsin Student Association Banquet for State Legislators

Date: 02 28 1961
Description: A pair of female University of Wisconsin students speaking with Assemblyman Michael J. Barron (D-Milwaukee) during a reception and banquet for state legisl...
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U.W. Engineering Students Beard Contest

Date: 03 09 1961
Description: Side profile of Jack Hauber who won one of the "Smith Bros." awards for his beard's similarity to those of the famed cough drop brothers.
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Four Lakes Council Boy Scouts Circus

Date: 04 15 1961
Description: 1,500 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorer Scouts and their adult volunteers in the Four Lakes Council participated in circus performances at the Dane County F...
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Race Bias Against U.W. Instructor

Date: 09 09 1961
Description: A group of students from the University of Wisconsin Student Council on Civil Rights picket a house on 540 West Mifflin Street and help to move out the pos...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: The Legal Aid Society is one of 29 United Givers agencies. This service is staffed by advanced law students pictured here at the University of Wisconsin wi...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: The Salvation Army is one of 29 United Givers agencies. It provides emergency shelter and also a nursery school at its headquarters on W. Wilson Street for...
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Joseph Mitchell Speaks on Curtailing Welfare Program

Date: 11 17 1961
Description: Newburgh, N.Y. City Manager Joseph Mitchell, pictured here, gave a talk to University of Wisconsin Conservation Club about reducing federal and state welfa...

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