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| Date: | 05 1954 |
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| Description: | An integrated banquet hall during the Ninth Convention in Sioux City, Iowa. There is a banner overhead that reads "100% Price Support For Farmers Is Job Su... |
| Date: | 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Glenn Turner is holding the United Nations flag, and his wife is carrying the flag of the state of Wisconsin. A supporter is holding the American flag. One... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Vending and dispensing machines display. Banner above also reads: (Increased dairy sales and better health for your community." |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Pontiac Silver Streak station wagon decorated with a Wisconsin Steel Works banner parked along a curb before Chicago's East Side Centennial Parade. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, named the first Alice in Dairyland in 1948, promotes Wisconsin cheese. |
| Date: | 07 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Publicity photo at a pre-convention session of the Wisconsin State Democratic Party that includes William Proxmire and James E. Doyle, rival candidates for... |
| Date: | 09 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Six nurses ride in the back of an International K-160 truck, along with an iron lung and a dummy in traction. The banner on the side of the truck reads: "H... |
| Date: | 07 24 1955 |
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| Description: | The Soap Box Derby held on East Washington Avenue leading from the Wisconsin State Capitol. Shown are two of the more than 100 racers crossing the finish l... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Supporters of Lar Daly, an Illinois senatorial candidate, and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, protest outside the Congress Hotel where the Americans for Democr... |
| Date: | 10 01 1956 |
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| Description: | Original caption from the Milwaukee Journal: "Manager Fred Haney, wearing an Indian headdress, reached out to shake the hand of a greeter at Gen. Mi... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Side view of a Joseph H. Brown Iron & Steel Company International Harvester truck decorated with flags and banners for Chicago's East Side Centennial Parad... |
| Date: | 02 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Seven boys in the percussion section of the Madison parochial schools band practice on drums and cymbals at Edgewood High School. |
| Date: | 02 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Five boys practice playing trombones in the Madison parochial schools band at Edgewood High School. |
| Date: | 02 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Boy Scout - Four Lakes Council annual dinner head table. Left to right are: John A. Raymond, scout commissioner; Dr. Albert E. Iverson, national director o... |
| Date: | 07 30 1950 |
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| Description: | The five surviving charter members of Zion Lutheran Church, 247 Division Street, stand in front of a banner at the picnic celebrating the church's 50th ann... |
| Date: | 02 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy laughs in a posed photograph in which he holds a UPI news photograph of a British POW in Korea who denounced his citiz... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | For a 1950 election, the United Packinghouse Workers Union sponsored a free bus to transport people to the voter registration site. |
| Date: | 11 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Palmer House hotel. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | An unidentified rally in support of the rights of Willie McGee who was convicted of raping a white woman in 1945. His case attracted the attention of many ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View from across street of various representations of the "Don't Buy Cudahy" boycott campaign outside the Packinghouse Workers headquarters: cartops, women... |
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