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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Paul Spencer, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 in Memphis, reminds citizens of his locals' strike against Wilson & Co. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Adlai Stevenson and Governor Gaylord Nelson seated together at an unidentified event, probably a sporting event. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | International Harvester truck dealer Vern Netteschiem listening to recorded truck specifications while he sleeps. The Dormiphone was a clock-controlled tap... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Scaffolding in the Historical Society Library Reading Room used to replace the art glass in the skylights and the original brass ceiling lights. Flouresce... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Central Building. Seven story building with a walkway connecting to the second floor over the road on the right. Cars are parked in front... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east from shoreline of Lake Monona towards Monona shoreline. There is a road, railroad tracks, and a rocky beach area with parked au... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking south over Lake Monona. Shoreline and automobiles in parking lot in lower right, next to a road. Railroad tracks cross the lake and b... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of dirt parking lot between a road and the lake. Steam is rising from the lake, and the far shoreline can be seen in the distance. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Chulew family (from left): Marcia, Natalie, and Manny at Schwartz's Resort. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Peltz family (head table) at son Andre's Bar Mitzvah at the Jewish Community Center. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Cyla Tine Stundel and her son, Ksiel, at his Bar Mitzvah. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | From left: Cyla Tine Stundel, daughter Golden, husband Abraham. Right (wearing suit): son Ksiel, at his Bar Mitzvah. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Senator John F. Kennedy with his wife, Jackie. Second from right is Ivan Nestigan, then Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Vern Netteschiem (right) and an interested customer leaning on an International truck. In the background a truck is loaded w... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view over University Avenue of University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Chadbourne Hall, built 1958-1959, is in the lower foreground, the Wisconsin H... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of the exterior of the Wisconsin Center for adult education at 702 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the prefabricated home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed by Marshall Erdman. This example of the Erdman #2 known as the Walte... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Four members of an unidentified local in United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 (Burette King, Sidney Coleman, Aljay Williams, and Joseph Kuzma)... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Scene still of Breno Mello, as Orfeo holding a knife, and Marpessa Dawn, as Eurydice, in Marcel Camus's Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus, 1959). |
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