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| 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... |
| 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: | 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. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 11 18 1965 |
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| Description: | Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army. |
| 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: | 11 27 1967 |
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| Description: | A machinist running a punch press at Res Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 01 13 1965 |
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| Description: | Toddlers looking into the camera with tears in their eyes. They were found abandoned at the Central YWCA. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Vel Phillips in her judges's black robe with an American flag behind her. She was the 13th District Children's Court judge, the first woman and... |
| Date: | 08 28 1962 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley, in the lobby of the Schroeder Hotel in Milwaukee, with a group from the Boys Club holding campaign signs. They presented him with... |
| Date: | 04 11 1969 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lloyd Knox demonstrating the technique of making spoon bread. |
| 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: | 08 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Gene Turman, Local 1533, Beloit (younger) and M.W. Henderson, Local 2763, Galesburg, Illinois, sit on a couch at the United Steelworkers of American Distri... |
| Date: | 08 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Posed group shot of the United Steelworkers of America District 32 Convention Resolutions Committee. The men wear suits and are all sitting or standing aro... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Isaiah Pyant, C.I.O. union member, and his wife sitting on a couch in their home. They are smiling and relaxed and a print of a bouquet hangs on the wall b... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Down-lane view of Isaiah Pyant, member of C.I.O., bowling. A few men are visible in the background walking past, looking on and sitting on a bench. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Isaiah Pyant, C.I.O. member, sitting in an armchair in his home reading the newspaper. |
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