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| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1... |
| Date: | 08 1912 |
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| Description: | Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road. |
| Date: | 01 17 1919 |
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| Description: | Governor Emmanuel Philipp ratifying the 18th Amendment which made Prohibition law. From left to right: Executive Messenger, Samuel Banks; Senator George B.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Farmer L.C. Carter standing beside bales of cotton and a farm building. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three men unload an International truck owned by J.E. Vann and Company Wholesale Grocers. The truck is carrying bags and crates of merchandise and is parke... |
| Date: | 04 1914 |
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| Description: | Booker T. Washington stands flanked by Richard "Dick" Lloyd Jones (left) and Jenkin Lloyd Jones (right) near the shore of a Madison lake. Washington, desc... |
| Date: | 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Gravel screening and separating plant of the 310th Engineers in operation on a road near Camp Custer. All of the soldiers at work on this road construction... |
| Date: | 11 10 1918 |
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| Description: | African-American cooks for the 808th Pioneer Infantry officers mess, photographed at Aubreville, France, one day before the armistice. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Chow line for members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | African American soldiers during World War I playing trombone music. |
| Date: | 02 10 1919 |
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| Description: | Members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard arrive home as heroes. They earned the distinction of being the only regiment to neve... |
| Date: | 11 14 1918 |
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| Description: | Members of the 134th Infantry quartette and band entertain the stevedores on the dock at Marseille, France, three days after the end of the war. Men standi... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three African American soldiers with a company of engineers somewhere in France. They are holding a shovel, pick, and sledgehammer. |
| Date: | 09 04 1919 |
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| Description: | A man in a hat drives an International model "G" truck carrying logs with a wagon past a building. On the image is written: "Weight of load, "16.000.LB", a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in an International model "G" truck pulling a wagon with logs tied together on top of it. Several logs are stacked on top of wood beams to ... |
| Date: | 05 29 1912 |
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| Description: | Farmer wearing a hat is walks=ing behind a horse-drawn Osborne spring tooth harrow in a field. Trees and a fence are in the background. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Caricature of Bert Williams, probably drawn by Al Frueh, c. 1912. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A woman and three children pose in front of the Pierce family's house on Williamson Street. From left to right are Leo Kronenberg, Gertrude Kronenberg, The... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of men and a boy pose near the rapid transit car labeled, "Aileen" and "Hotel." Caption reads: "Rapid Transit Car, Washington, GA." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a dock, as naval stores are being loaded on a ship. Workers are on board the ship and on the dock, surrounded by cargo. Caption reads: "Loading Nav... |
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