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Vel Phillips and Milwaukee Turners

Date: 1992
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a checkered suit and holding a glass award next to a podium. A man wearing a suit stands next to her. The sign on the podium reads: "...
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Vel Phillips and Milwaukee Turners

Date: 1992
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a checkered suit is displaying a glass award while standing next to a podium. A man wearing a suit stands next to her. The sign on th...
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Franz Peters, Labor Day Parade Marshall

Date: 1900
Description: Franz Peters, Milwaukee Labor Day Parade Marshall, mounted on a horse on a neighborhood street. He is holding Freemason insignia in his right hand. Located...
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Vel Phillips Playing Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, handing a baseball to an unidentified young man wearing a jacket. Two unidenti...
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Vel Phillips Throwing a Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing an Milwaukee Commandos NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt, throwing a baseball. Two unidentified children stand in the field behind Vel. ...
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Vel Phillips Pitching Baseball

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Description: View from behind batter and umpire of Vel Phillips pitching a baseball. She is wearing a Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council sweatshirt. There are three unidenti...
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Vel Phillips Pitching a Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a baseball glove, hat and a sweatshirt that reads "Milwaukee Commando NAACP Youth Council" pitching a baseball. In the background sta...
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Milwaukee March

Date: 1967
Description: Elevated view of a group of people marching in the street with Father James Groppi. There is a man driving a Milwaukee police vehicle in front, and one man...
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Freedom Fund Dinner Committee

Date: 1962
Description: The NAACP Milwaukee Branch's Freedom Fund Dinner Committee. The Freedom Fund Dinner is an annual NAACP fundraising event and awards ceremony for the organi...
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NAACP Milwaukee Branch Annual Dinner

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Elevated view over people sitting at tables in front of the head table, at the NAACP Milwaukee Branch's 1958 Annual Dinner. Roy Wilkins, seated in the midd...
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NAACP Milwaukee Branch Annual Dinner

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Slightly elevated group portrait of diners at the NAACP Milwaukee Branch's 1958 Annual Dinner.
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Race Relations '66

Date: 09 25 1966
Description: Still from an episode of the WTMJ program "Human Rights," which was titled "Race Relations '66." Four people: Wesley L. Scott, executive director of the Mi...
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Phillips Law Office

Date: 1951
Description: Vel Phillips standing in front of the door to her and her husband's law office. The sign on the glass door reads: "W. Dale Phillips, Vel Phillips Lawyers."...
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Wisconsin Authors' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 1882
Description: Card menu for the Wisconsin Authors' Club Banquet at Klosterheim. On the top left is a framed landscape of trees overlooking a body of water.
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Complimentary Dinner to Judge Chas. E. Dyer Menu

Date: 1888
Description: Card menu for a dinner for Judge Charles E. Dyer, given by his "legal friends in Milwaukee, at the Milwaukee Club." At the top is a stalk of wheat interlac...
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Banquet Tendered to Hon. William H. Taft

Date: 06 10 1907
Description: Elevated view of tables of seated diners at a banquet tendered to Hon. William Howard Taft by the Merchants and Manufacturers Association of Milwaukee at t...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Watertown Plank Road Historic Marker

Date: 11 01 1955
Description: President of the Miller Brewing Company, Norman R. Klug, unveiled the Watertown Plank Road historical marker along with, to his left, James Fitzpatrick, pr...
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Watertown Plank Road Historic Marker

Date: 11 01 1955
Description: Raymond Sivesind, director of the sites and markers program of the State Historical Society, as a speaker in the dedication and unveiling ceremony, stands ...
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Hawaiian Night, Sky-View Nursing Home

Date: 03 29 1962
Description: Three women with leis around their necks. Caption reads: "It was Hawaiian night Wednesday for patients at the Sky-View nursing home, 901 S. 3rd St. Mrs. Ca...
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German Press Club

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Description: Group portrait of members of the German (Deutsche) Press Club. Standing, from left to right are: Herman Pabst, Henry J. Stark, George Parker, (unidentified...

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