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The Bates House with Broken Front Window

Date: 08 1957
Description: The Little Rock home of Daisy and L.C. Bates, showing their front window after a stone had been thrown through the window. Grates have been placed on this ...
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Women on Strike

Date: 08 1957
Description: Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f...
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Parade Float with Soap Box Derby Cars

Date: 08 1957
Description: "Stairway to a Champ" float in a parade. The float includes the five cars raced by Van Steiner of Argyle along with his helmets and trophies.

Van won the...

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Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 08 1957
Description: The racing hill at Derby Downs where the All-American Soap Box Derby championship is held each year. Taken from the Topside area by the parents (Mr. &...
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Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 08 1957
Description: "Welcome Champ" sign for Van Steiner of Argyle, Wisconsin on the main street of Akron. In 1957 Van competed in the All-American Soap Box Derby at Derby Dow...
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Akron Soap Box Derby

Date: 08 1957
Description: Van Steiner (15 years-old) of Argyle, Wisconsin, the 1957 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion, crouching next to his Wisconsin State Journal-sponsor...

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