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The Union House Tavern

Date: 1900
Description: The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi...
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Mexican Migrant Workers

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a...
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Worker Harassment

Date: 06 1955
Description: Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai...
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Hotel Marblehead Station Wagon

Date: 08 20 1935
Description: Two men stand beside an International C-1 station wagon ("woody") owned by Hotel Marblehead. Men and women passengers sit inside the vehicle along with the...
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Farmall H with Military Tank

Date: 1943
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe sits on a Farmall H tractor while a uniformed man stands on the top of a military tank. Two more men are sitting in ...
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Labor Violence in Iowa

Date: 05 21 1948
Description: National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra...
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Negotiations at Gresham

Date: 1975
Description: Negotiations between Neil Hawpetoss, a leader of the Menominee Warrior Society that had seized the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in January 1975, and a memb...
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Restaurant Bar

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Description: Six men standing in a dining room with a bar. Two of the men are bartenders, one of whom is pouring a drink. Three men dressed in suits are leaning against...
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Social Security Conference with President Roosevelt

Date: 03 20 1939
Description: Leaving the White House after their Social Security conference with President Roosevelt are (left to right): John Hanes, Undersecretary of the Treasury; Ar...
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African-American Students with Military Escort at Sturgis High School

Date: 09 11 1956
Description: African-American students escorted from Sturgis High School by armed National Guardsmen.
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"Fool's Paradise"

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Description: Still from the 1921 film "Fool's Paradise". Arthur Phelps (Conrad Nagel) gestures toward Samaran (Julia Faye) who is seated cross-legged on a small platfor...

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