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| Date: | 08 12 1924 |
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| Description: | Crew of African American workmen paving a city street behind an International heavy-duty truck. |
| 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: | 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Demonstration at the Greyhound Bus station, showing a woman holding a sign that reads: "Sit Down Like Human Beings, Up Front." SNCC Arkansas Project. |
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| Description: | A man poses while selling chickens on the street. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the Greene, Shepard, Gadlin, Grimes, and Craig families who lived in the Pleasant Ridge community. |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | The east side of the Schlitz Palm Garden at N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and was one of the ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses in his Navy uniform holding a rifle on the day he graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms in his Marine Corps uniform, with rifle and canteen, probably in Korea. |
| Date: | 09 30 1978 |
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| Description: | Full-length group portrait of a bride and her mother and father walking towards the center aisle of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House as the ceremo... |
| Date: | 09 30 1978 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of some of the family of the bride at a wedding that took place at the First Unitarian Society Meeting House. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of young people on a sidewalk protesting with signs in support of the MFDP. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing and talking in a plaza in front of a building which has a large sign with the words: "Memphis Tennessee Shelby County" around the seal... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman stands in the foreground looking at the camera, while behind her two law enforcement officers wearing helmets examine protestors during a Freedom S... |
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| Description: | Beulah Dahle, Carson Gulley and Margaret Roeckel Miner standing in front of Van Hise Hall (now Carson Gulley Hall). Gulley is wearing his white chef unifor... |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | Florence Christian carrying the cleaned laundry of Paul C. Goetsch in a large basket on her head while walking barefoot through a garden. |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | An African-American police officer in the foreground is talking on a phone or walkie-talkie while he is surveying the line of men and women waiting to ent... |
| Date: | 10 13 1977 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hardhat and carrying a tool is walking along railroad tracks. Caption reads: "A railroad worker walked along a line in the Menomonee Valley... |
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| Description: | A group of children are leaning on a railing to look at an elephant at the Milwaukee Zoo. |
| Date: | 08 03 2016 |
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| Description: | A man is riding a bicycle down a sidewalk while looking at his cellphone. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms (fourth from right) waiting with other soldiers to leave for Fort McCoy. |
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