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| Date: | 04 06 1969 |
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| Description: | Children walking out of church after the Easter Sunday service at St. James United Methodist Church at 1114 West Brown Street. |
| Date: | 02 09 1958 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Erwin G. Tieman baptizes infants as part of a Lutheran crusade for Christ evangelism. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Willie Mae Small, 107 years old, sits in a chair off to the side during an outdoor service (church?). |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Members of the National Welfare Rights Organization, some dressed in choir robes, hold candles and a cross as they are confronted by police. This is at the... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 50 at a ceremony marking the closure of the Swift & Company plant in Milwaukee. The local was o... |
| Date: | 04 1974 |
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| Description: | Hilton Hanna (left), a national leader in the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, swears in the new officers of Local 248 in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 09 30 1978 |
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| Description: | Full-length group portrait of a bride and her mother and father walking towards the center aisle of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House as the ceremo... |
| Date: | 07 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Image of a church dedication service taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Church dedication — Society Hill Baptist Church — most of these people are minis... |
| Date: | 08 20 1964 |
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| Description: | View of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Washington, standing on the sidewalk in the foreground with their backs to the camera, who were the first tenants of the Lapham P... |
| Date: | 12 22 1960 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of several people sitting or standing around a table with a meal displayed on it. All the women, and one man, are folding their hands as if ... |
| Date: | 12 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Two men and two women are standing around a plate, over which one man is holding a singed document while another man is holding a match. Caption reads: "Ma... |
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