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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men transporting large bales of cotton in a warehouse or loading dock. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boys use various tools to make fly traps in a classroom. A man, probably their instructor, stands in the background in front of a chalkboard. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart... |
| Date: | 10 27 1953 |
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| Description: | Sunday School children, mostly from the Pilgrim Congregational Church, pack gifts to be sent to refugee camps all over the world as part of World Community... |
| Date: | 09 27 1953 |
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| Description: | "Building Lasting Peace" is the theme for World Community Day, sponsored by the Madison Council of United Church Women at Grace Episcopal Church. Pictured ... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and his wife "Suzy," a vaudeville comedy act. After Suzy died in 1962, Edwards continued to tour until the time of his death in... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Stanley Zuckerman, Lloyd Barbee, Jackie Robinson, and David Obey. The photograph is inscribed from Obey to Barbee. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Ruby Hurley, Youth Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin sports alumni and professional baseball players "Red" Wilson and Harvey Kuenn take a tour through the Veterans Hospital, talking an... |
| Date: | 06 13 1961 |
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| Description: | Large group of protesters in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda with many carrying signs in favor of Civil Rights for African-Americans. One man holds a s... |
| Date: | 02 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Luida Sanders (right), a "writer's aide" and a state public health educator, presents first and second prizes to two writers and patients at the Madison V... |
| Date: | 04 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Paul Robeson, Mrs. Emil H. Jones and Leo Krzycki pose for a group portrait at the Win the Peace Luncheon. They are wearing suits and standing in front of a... |
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