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Description: | Six fighters in pugilistic poses, in the boxing ring with their coach. The Milwaukee Urban League provided community activities, like boxing, for children ... |
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Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams. |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
Date: | 04 05 1947 |
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Description: | Bronzeville Bombers just after coming through with a score of 2690, putting them in tenth place in the state CIO tournament on April 5. The five men are a... |
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Description: | Bernice Robinson with students at first citizenship school at Johns Island. |
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Description: | Seated portrait of Peter D. Thomas (1847-1925) of Racine. Thomas was an escaped slave who joined the 15th Wisconsin Regiment during its service in Tennesse... |
Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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Description: | Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Martha and Notley Henderson with their three children. Their son Allen is standing. The Hendersons were e... |
Date: | 12 1978 |
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Description: | Addie Wyatt, of the United Packinghouse Worker's Association, is shown seated at a desk speaking during the Merger Talks. |
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Description: | Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957. |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of L.C. Bates, editor and publisher of the the "Arkansas State Press," a crusading Little Rock newspaper and the husband of the Ark... |
Date: | 09 1957 |
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Description: | L.C. and Daisy Bates watching television with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus on the screen. |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy, with proprietor, assistant, customer and mailman standing among numerous retail displays and a McCormick-Deering "four in lin... |
Date: | 1916 |
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Description: | African American man sitting inside an agricultural display of corn, potatoes, canned goods and International Harvester agricultural lecture charts. A bann... |
Date: | 11 14 1966 |
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Description: | African American junior Girl Scouts pouring fruit juice into a punch bowl as they prepare to entertain their parents. |
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Description: | Full-length portrait of an African American Civil War soldier from Hughes and Meltzer, "A pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
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Description: | Two Black Civil War soldiers from Hughes and Metzer "Pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
Date: | 04 24 1989 |
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Description: | Children meet "Happy Tooth", a robot sponsored by Colgate toothpaste on a 30-state tour to promote dental hygiene to young school children. |
Date: | 03 19 1989 |
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Description: | Children celebrating their heritage during Ethnic Pride Day at Our Savior's Lutheran Church Hall, 3022 West Wisconsin Avenue. The celebration, which highl... |
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