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| Description: | Employees of the Wilson Sporting Goods Company in suburban Chicago are Bob Pickles and Ed Cronk. The men were representing the United Packinghouse Workers ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Farewell party for Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" at the newspaper's office. Identified in the crowd is Paul Robeson, a longtime supporter of t... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, wearing his characteristic attire, on a trip on the Upper Churchill River. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms is seated on his motorcycle with Craig Arms sitting in front of him and Lewis Arms, Jr. behind him. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses outdoors with his wife, Elinora, and son, Lewis Arms, Jr. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of a boy and his barber. The front view shows the boy holding a coonskin cap popularized at the time by the Davy Crockett television p... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Joe Dottl standing in the Ideal Body Company on Park Street. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Robert Gard holding his glasses in one hand and reading his book Grassroots Theater held in the other hand. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a woman holding a handkerchief up to her face and weeping. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A man dressed as Santa Claus leans down from an open car to hand sacks of candy to a crowd of warmly-dressed children and parents. Santa's visit took place... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Mary Herb (left), the Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association President and Signe Skott Cooper (right), Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association Adv... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Paul Vanderbilt sitting sideways on a chair. He was Curator of the Iconographic Collections, State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across Mifflin Street, towards Madison City Hall as it is being demolished. On the street women are walking around the construction to get to the side... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A handwritten note describes this portrait as: "Aunt Elsa in her summer house "The Lindens" when she was eighty years old." She is wearing a print dress an... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A motorboat on Lake Neshonoc is speeding toward the public landing, where there is a car parked and a small group of people has gathered. A man in a swimmi... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A woman is posing in a small flower bed on a lawn. There are Canna plants in the center. The bed is surrounded by a simple living willow fence. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Fireman's Park, Sun Prairie, Wis." The entrance to a park with stone walls, sidewalks and trees. A Cadillac is parked in the street a... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Text reads: "Wisconsin Dells. 18 Miniature Postcards from Original Photographs. Stand Rock. Indian Chief." A souvenir view folder containing a group of 18 ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The front cover of a booklet titled: "A Guide To Community Action For Public School Integration." Text over image at bottom reads: "Highlander Staff Planni... |
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