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| Description: | People assembled at storefront along the street of a small town in "poor farming country." |
| Date: | 04 1973 |
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| Description: | A Marlboro cigarette billboard advertisement looms over King Street. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men are looking at a newly unveiled plaque commemorating International Harvester's "100 Years in Chicago" celebration. Original caption reads: "Fowler ... |
| Date: | 09 09 1979 |
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| Description: | A large group of people rallying in support of gay rights at the top of State Street on the Capitol Square. They are listening to a man playing guitar. Man... |
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| Description: | View down wooden sidewalk towards a Ho-Chunk man smoking a cigar and wearing a duck bone breast plate and fur pants on the left, and a European American ma... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of law enforcement officers wearing helmets hold rolled up paper, probably signs confiscated from demonstrators during a Freedom Summer protest out... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of protestors and law enforcement officers walk along the sidewalk across the street from a Woolworth's department store during a Freedom Summer de... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk of two male protestors wearing signs around their necks walking down a sidewalk in a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. The sign... |
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| Description: | Exercise the body to work off the weight of mind, of pushing uphill a month-long night of doom. A better foot is leavened from the bottom o... |
| Date: | 02 27 1960 |
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| Description: | Picketers walk the sidewalk in front of the F.W. Woolworth store on the Capitol Square. The protest was against the company's segregated lunch counter poli... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of three men standing together on the board sidewalk outside Kreuz and Curtis Shoes, 21 S. Pinckney Street. The men are wearing suits, ties and hats, ... |
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| Description: | View across street towards a police officer chasing down a shoplifter walking on State Street. A man is watching from a sidewalk in the background. |
| Date: | 07 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Man wearing a brimmed hat slumped alone on a metal park bench in the shade on South Pickney Street on Capitol Square. He has a cigarette or cigar between h... |
| Date: | 01 15 1975 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Delegate Walter E. Fauntroy and Representative Bella Abzug at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March supporting the pro... |
| Date: | 01 15 1975 |
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| Description: | A demonstrator chanting at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March supporting the Humphrey-Hawkins Equal Employment Act. Behind him are more demonst... |
| Date: | 01 15 1975 |
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| Description: | Demonstrators at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March walking around the White House to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the birth of Martin L... |
| Date: | 01 15 1975 |
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| Description: | Demonstrators at a PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) March walking around the White House to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the birth of Martin L... |
| Date: | 05 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Participating in the "Outdoor Living Day" event, sponsored by the Madison Chamber of Commerce, is Ben Swetmore who is checking out one of the boats parked ... |
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