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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A street musician named Frank Ritter playing violin on a city sidewalk (possibly in Chicago), with a dog leashed to his belt. A tin cup is attached to the ... |
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| Description: | People assembled at storefront along the street of a small town in "poor farming country." |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| 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: | 09 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Dilapidated backyard at Milwaukee amd N. Bryan Street next to Madison Builders Supply. |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation. |
| 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: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Group of people line up for Hunger Task Force delivery. |
| Date: | 03 22 1912 |
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| Description: | Two young girls standing with their arms around each other in the debris-strewn yard of a run-down home. The original caption identifies the location as th... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | The Salvation Army is one of 29 United Givers agencies. It provides emergency shelter and also a nursery school at its headquarters on W. Wilson Street for... |
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| Description: | Open air dining for civilians without money in the Friedenau-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin along the the Kaiserplatz. |
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