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| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Executed man laying on ground as the final bullet is delivered. The execution was somehow bungled by the firing squad and this coup d'grace was required to... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Alg... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Cover image of an NBC promotional folder for the show "House That Home Built". |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a model home in the "House That Home Built" promotional folder. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A traitor, with hands held near his face, stands before the Algerian rebels in the Atlas Mountains. This is the actual trial. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers hold a flag decorated with a crescent and a star. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | WIBA radio personalities Selma Sorenson, Sibylle Mitchell, Isabel Baumann, Grace Langer and Ruth King, together known as the "We Say What We Think Club," l... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Aline W. Hazard (in hat) of WHA Radio, recording and interviewing Mrs. Robert Jahnke (Corrine) at Forest Acres Deer Farm. Mrs. Jahnke holds a pair of earri... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | After the death of Joseph R. McCarthy in May, 1957, seven Republicans ran in the special primary election. The most serious candidates were Congressman Gle... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt, Myles Horton, and May Justus at the 25th anniversary of Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt, standing, with Myles Horton, and May Justus at the 25th anniversary of Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a factory worker installing a headlight onto an International A-100 "Golden Jubilee" truck at International Harvester's Springfield Works. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Harlan Riegel installs a chrome bumper on an International A-100 "Golden Jubilee" truck while holding a tool in his mouth at International Harvester's Spri... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates, who is wearing a fur, poses with other people at an NAACP event. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Ceremony beneath the guns on board the U.S.S. Wisconsin. A number of spectators and sailors are seated in the foreground, and uniformed sailors line... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Two illustrated views of a JT-180 Cummins engine. The text at lower left reads: "The lighter, higher speed, turbocharged JT-180 engine (right) is offered i... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Louis Pierron, age 89, sitting on the trunk of a large elm tree which had recently been cut down at Green Bay Avenue and West Good Hope Road. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Sherwin Gillett in profile checking his watch at a marble rail. |
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