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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A welfare demonstration led by Father James Groppi (center) in the Wisconsin Assembly chambers. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber protesting welfare cuts. Father Groppi is seated on the lef... |
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| Description: | People assembled at storefront along the street of a small town in "poor farming country." |
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| Description: | Dirty and disheveled boy with no shoes standing in the street with a baby carriage. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 11 24 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette delivers a special message on welfare relief to a special session of the legislature in the assembly chamber of the Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Squalid, littered alley. Tire tracks run through the mud between wooden buildings. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
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| Description: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster of an African American man in a straw hat and overalls seated in front of a weathered building. Text in th... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 2003 |
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| Description: | A homeless man holding a cardboard sign that reads "HOMELESS HUNGRY ANY Thing HELPS GOD BLESS" on Rose Street intersection. |
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| Description: | Barry, an avid recycler, searching through trash container. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation. |
| Date: | 02 22 2012 |
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| Description: | A homeless man is sitting on Saint Patrick's Catholic Church's steps as a woman on the sidewalk is walking past. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Several houses along a dirt road. A person stands in the doorway of one house. "'Some roofs leak worse than others, but we all get wet inside when it rains... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two containers of Coke bottles sit on the front steps of a house. The North Wall Street neighborhood houses 37 families in 22 buildings, with 30 hydrants... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A home with clothing hanging out to dry on a clothesline. The North Wall Street neighborhood houses 37 families in 22 buildings, with 30 hydrants, 24 toi... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "Twelve families, eighteen persons, share four outhouses." A window of a house is visible in the foreground, while an outhouse is located behind the home.<... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "This path from the alleyway to the outhouse is flooded when it rains — note the 'bridge' from the bottom porch step to the opposite bank." Griffin Alley... |
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