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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three men and a horse standing in front of a blacksmith shop which has a sign above the doorway advertising M. Karger and Brothers Clothing and Furnishing ... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | The 400 Cass Street gas station was first constructed in 1928 and later became a Pure Oil station, when it was reopened by Henry Ott, in 1937. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This service station, located at 301 South Bridge Street, was built in Manawa during the late 1930s as new, more efficient station designs were constructed... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The F. Dohmen Company Wholesale Druggists. A salesman's catalog with removable screwed bindings and pages of note paper bound between catalog pages. (One o... |
| Date: | 07 04 1876 |
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| Description: | Two men stand by a wagon on which is written "A.L. Dahl Landscape Photographer." The photographer stands on the left side of the view. The flag on the side... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd gathered in front of the Internal Revenue Service Manhattan District Office to protest war taxes. The protesters carry large... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A woman standing in front of closed stalls on Coney Island. The framework for the Devil's Pit roller coaster rises in the background behind dilapidated si... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Leon Lamoreux walking down the sidewalk on South Pinckney Street, Capitol Square. The building on the right is the First National Bank (now the "glass" ban... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A group of picketers supporting the nationwide United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott in front of Kroger Supermarket. Picketers are carrying signs that s... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a paisley dress is carrying a United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO sign in front of a Kroger store that reads, "Honor Picket Line/ National Cou... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A benefit gathering at James Rector People's Park to support the United Farmworkers (UFW) grape boycott. The UFW sign, with its eagle symbol, posted in th... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Stanley Stemp (owner) standing behind a typewriter in the Stemp Typewriter Company located at 533 State Street. This store was referred to as the "Little S... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | The Stemp Typewriter Company's two red and white service trucks. The company picked up and then delivered typewriters in need of repair. They also delivere... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Stanley P. Stemp (owner), on the left, and two employees stand on the sidewalk in front of the Stemp Typewriter Company located at 533 State Street. They h... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Stanley P. Stemp (owner), third from the left, and three employees stand on the sidewalk next to an Ed Klief Transfer Line delivery truck and driver. Behin... |
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