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Gardens Near Apartment Building

Date: 1943
Description: Elevated view of men and women working in a large garden behind what appears to be an apartment building.
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300 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: Montgomery Ward (on North Henry Street), Colonial Shoppe E...
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Large Radio

Date: 1927
Description: Newspaperman Alvin Steinkopf leaning on a large radio in his Milwaukee apartment. Steinkopf is wearing a bow tie and holding a cigar in his hand.
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Funny Papers and Alvin Steinkopf

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Description: Still wearing his pajamas, "Milwaukee Sentinel" editor Alvin Steinkopf reads the newspaper. The popular comic strip, "Gasoline Alley," can be seen on the ...
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Dressed to the Nines

Date: 1930
Description: Irene Steinkopf, motion picture editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, dressed in a floor-length gown for an evening on the town.
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Mayor Soglin at Home

Date: 05 28 1973
Description: Mayor Soglin at home with his wife, Diane Thayer-Soglin, taken one month after his election as Mayor.
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Walking on Frozen Lake Mendota

Date: 01 02 1979
Description: Two younger men assisting an elderly woman as they are walking across a snowy, frozen Lake Mendota. Shoreline buildings off Langdon Street, including The E...
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Forest Reading

Date: 1921
Description: Forest Middleton reading while lying on a sofa in the Middleton's apartment in Japan. The decorative top piece of the stove in the corner has been moved as...
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Working at Home

Date: 1922
Description: Forest Middleton, right, addressing a package while sitting in a wicker armchair. His wife Leonore, is sitting on a straight back chair with her feet propp...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: Two students are standing behind a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray ...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: Two students stand next to a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray painte...
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Racist Graffiti

Date: 1975
Description: View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre...
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Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of students in South Boston are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. One boy is grabbing the head of an effigy of an Af...
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Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of students are boycotting school to protest court-ordered desegregation busing. Two boys are holding an effigy of an African-American man. In the ...
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Students and Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of South Boston teenagers posing with an effigy of an African-American man. In the background is a chain-link fence, shrubs and a housing project. ...
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Children Hanging Effigy in South Boston Project

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project preparing to hang an effigy of a black man." Children are lined up along a chain-link fenc...
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Students Hanging Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "S. Boston kids preparing to hang an effigy." One of the boys is standing on the top of the chain-link fence helping the boy ...
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Students Hanging Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: A group of children are hanging an effigy of an African-American man in a dead tree, creating a mock lynching. One of the boys is sitting on a limb of the ...
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Children Burning Hanging Effigy

Date: 1975
Description: Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project burn the effigy of a black man." The mock-lynching was staged by a group of students in th...
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Jan Schlabowske's Six-Burner Cooktop

Date: 03 03 1989
Description: A man is standing by a countertop taking an egg out of a carton. Next to him is a stove with six burners and a large pan on it. Caption reads: "Jan Schlabo...

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