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Consolidated Paper Factory

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Office building and factory of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company.
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Droster's Filling Station

Date: 1939
Description: Lincoln Borgrud, in his work clothes, standing at the pumps at Droster's Grocery and Filling Station, 1438 Sherman Avenue. A child stands near a car beneat...
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Overhead Front View, Miller Park Stadium

Date: 1998
Description: Lynn Sneary's artistic rendering of an overhead front view of Miller Park Stadium.
Drawing

Overhead Rear View, Miller Park Stadium

Date: 1998
Description: Lynn Sneary's artistic rendering of an overhead rear view of Miller Park Stadium.
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Milwaukee Picketers Supporting Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
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...
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Car with Grape Boycott Sign

Date: 1969
Description: A sign on the roof of a car that says, "Grapes = Poverty" supporting the United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO grape boycott. The car is parked on a street in f...
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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
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...
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Milwaukee Grape Boycott Picketers

Date: 1969
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...
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Green Bay Food Company Camp

Date: 1966
Description: Buildings along an unpaved road served as a camp for migrant farm workers working for the Green Bay Food Company.

In 1946, more than 4,000 farmworkers fr...

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Central Wisconsin Labor Camp

Date: 1967
Description: A central Wisconsin labor camp consisting of a row of wooden framed building with asphalt siding which housed migrant laborers. At the center, three childr...
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Neshkoro Poll Watcher

Date: 1967
Description: A seated young man looking into the camera watches over polls during a historic union election in Neshkoro. In the center, the ballot box is placed in fron...
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Boys Selling "La Voz Mexicana"

Date: 1967
Description: Two boys standing on the sidewalk are distributing "La Voz Mexicana" ("The Mexican Voice"), the official newspaper of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a un...
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Mary Alice Martinez in Picket Line

Date: 1969
Description: Mary Alice Martinez from Appleton is picketing to boycott grapes. She is carrying two signs. On the right, "Boycott Grapes in Neenah and everywhere." On th...
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Hartford Canning Company

Date: 1969
Description: Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfa...
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Immanual Lutheran Church (River Church)

Date: 09 1957
Description: Immanual Lutheran Church (River Church) on AY was the setting for the wedding of Fred Zastrow and Ruth Loehrke.
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Nighttime View of the Mayville Park Pavilion

Date: 09 1957
Description: Loehrke/Zastrow wedding. The Mayville Park Pavilion is reflected in the Rock River.
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Ebenezer Methodist Church

Date: 08 16 1952
Description: Ebenezer Methodist Church on Butternut Road was the scene of the Leudtke/Leichtle wedding.
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Downtown Theresa

Date: 1975
Description: A view of downtown.
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Fauerbach Brewery Buildings

Date: 04 01 2012
Description: View of the area behind what used to be the Fauerbach Brewery.
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Odana Road Homes

Date: 03 04 2012
Description: View down road toward a house at 4718 Odana Road, the former location of the Piper Brothers farm. An automobile is parked in the driveway, and snow is on t...

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