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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls. |
| Date: | 11 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Mail-order shopper with too many choices ponders her next purchase. |
| Date: | 05 22 1968 |
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| Description: | John M. Alexander holding plaque recognizing him as the Time/North American Dealer Association (NADA) truck dealer of the year. |
| Date: | 05 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Man turning calendar page of a National Guardian Life Insurance calendar. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Vi Slovin, an employee of the United Packinghouse Workers District One office in Chicago, working after hours to distribute leaflets about the Wilson & Co.... |
| Date: | 01 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Included in the group portrait taken at the 50th anniversary luncheon of the founding of the Gudrid Reading circle are, from the left: Mrs. Juliue E. (Ann... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish poet and author of fairy tales. Inscription at bottom of card reads, "H... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A woman at an office desk reads a pamphlet entitled, "What is Quality in a Motor Truck?" A male worker speaks on the telephone in the background. The two m... |
| Date: | 06 04 1934 |
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| Description: | A man sits in an armchair reading an advertisement for the International Harvester "New 1/2-Ton Truck." A free-standing ashtray is next to the chair. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Suffragists are holding small flags and handing out literature on a downtown street corner. A woman and a man are both wearing pin-back buttons t... |
| Date: | 05 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Three members of the camp advisory committee of the Community Welfare Council, sponsor of Madison's first Camp Week, look at literature and materials displ... |
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| Description: | A view of seven men reading and relaxing on the rooftop garden of the Central Park Officers' House. The men sit on outdoor furniture, and behind them, buil... |
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| Description: | An interior view of the library of the Central Park Officers' House. Seven men read in wooden and wicker chairs and decorative lighting hangs from the cei... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of women are preparing stacks of literature on the "Vitalized Agriculture Program" in the basement of a building. The program was administered by I... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural... |
| Date: | 08 31 1953 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Madison Council of Church Women executive board examine brochures with Jessie Kriel, the Americanism chairman of the Madison Woman's C... |
| Date: | 11 01 1966 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird distributing his campaign literature outside the Marathon Electric plant gate. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of women and girls seated outdoors read copies of the same magazine, possibly as part of a Freedom School lesson. |
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