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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: Confederate Rest at the Forest Hill Cemetery, showing graves of Confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1862. The grav...
Print

Holiday Card of President and Mrs. Kennedy

Date: 1961
Description: Holiday card from President Kennedy and First Lady, Christmas. Front of card depicts the White House on a snowy day with a horse-drawn carriage making its ...
Manuscript

Racine Branch NAACP Letter, Page 1

Date: 1961
Description: First page of a draft of a letter from the Racine branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urging more militant activity in...
Manuscript

Racine Branch NAACP Letter, Page 2

Date: 1961
Description: Second page of a draft of a letter from the Racine branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urging more militant activity i...
Manuscript

William Jenkins Letter of Recommendation

Date: 1961
Description: Letter from James V. Rizzo, Chairman of the Racine AFL-CIO Council's Community Service Committee, to Leland E. Johnson, President of the Racine Community S...
Photograph

Landscape with Views of a Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: Country cemetery among tall, dark evergreen trees.
Photograph

Farmland Vista

Date: 1961
Description: Vista over farmland from a small country cemetery.
Photograph

Cemetery View

Date: 1961
Description: View over fields, looking out from the cemetery.
Photograph

Sid Posing on Stone Wall in Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: View of Sid posing sitting with his feet up on the stone wall at the entrance to a cemetery with a July 1961 calendar under his arm and a cigar in his mout...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Dinner

Date: 1961
Description: A woman sitting on the lap of a man at an Ice Chippers event. Several more men are sitting at the table. Posters are taped to the wall behind the group, an...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Ice Hole

Date: 1961
Description: At an Ice Chippers dinner, a man is presenting another man with a toilet seat, which has a cartoon with the message: "Try this on your ice hole." Behind th...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Dinner

Date: 1961
Description: A woman is standing and serving dinner to men sitting at long tables at the Ice Chippers meeting. Posters are taped to the wall behind the group, and inclu...
Photograph

Sid Sitting on Stone Wall at Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: Sid is sitting on a stone wall looking out over a graveyard. He is wearing a hat and a checkered hunting jacket and has a cigar in his mouth. A stream of f...
Drawing

Ice Chipper's Annual Invitation - Front Cover

Date: 1961
Description: Front of two-fold invitation to the Ice Chipper's annual gathering, held on February 28, 1961. The front design is a drawing by Sid of a fisherman walking ...
Print

Ice Chipper's Annual Invitation

Date: 1961
Description: Two-fold invitation to the Ice Chipper's annual gathering with humorous typewritten text inside that reads in part: "International Conference for 'The Prom...
Photograph

Frances Ann Oiyotte Decorah with Certificate

Date: 1961
Description: Frances "Frenchie" Ann Oiyotte Decorah receiving her beauticians license at the age of 18 from the Green Bay Beauty School. The blond woman on the left is ...
Photograph

Banquet at Beauty School

Date: 1961
Description: Group portrait of women at a banquet at the Green Bay Beauty School. In the back row, fourth from the left, is Frances Decorah. Handwritten at the bottom i...

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