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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | James Dombrowski (center), head of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), leaving the Birmingham jail with Doris Senk and the Rev. C. Herbert Ol... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cy Young was widely regarded as the greatest baseball pitcher of all times. Cy Young, 80 years old, who resided in Newcomerstown, Ohio was invited to speak... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cartoon drawn by Clare V. "Dwig" Dwiggins depicting himself and August Derleth. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Journalist Cedric Belfrage, a co-founder of the "National Guardian," a weekly progressive newspaper. Belfrage, a British national, was later deported for h... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing depicting the first automobile race held in Wisconsin. The two vehicles each carry two men on a rural road. A handful of spectators, includ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Three men standing together holding cups and saucers. Two have cigars or cigarettes. Caption reads: "George V. Allen (left) with the Foreign Minister of Ir... |
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