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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott

Date: 09 06 1882
Description: Engraving of Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott, the first president of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Milwaukee.
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Locomotive Artifacts

Date: 03 29 1958
Description: A young boy rings a locomotive bell. Other artifacts of locomotive history are on the table before him with members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Nationa...
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Card Players

Date: 10 29 1956
Description: Men playing cards.
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Scrabble Game

Date: 04 11 1965
Description: A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist.
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Milwaukee Aikido Club

Date: 02 14 1968
Description: An Aikido class in session.
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Science Project

Date: 02 28 1964
Description: Two young boys work on a science project in a lab room.
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Woman Doing Laundry Outdoors

Date: 07 07 1963
Description: Jehovah's Witnesses assembly camper doing laundry.
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Mother's Day

Date: 04 23 1963
Description: A grandmother with daughter and granddaughter. They are nicely dressed for mother's day.
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Mail Room

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Description: Man sorting envelopes in a mail room near tall stacks of mail.
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Fans at Sporting Event

Date: 03 15 1957
Description: High school fans in the bleachers cheer on their team during a night game.
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Man and Mermaid

Date: 08 21 1963
Description: Couple poses behind carnival cutout of a sailor and mermaid.
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Fair Housing March

Date: 08 29 1966
Description: Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march.
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Father Groppi in Police Wagon

Date: 1966
Description: Father Groppi is seated in the back of a police wagon with police officer after being arrested in front of his parish for the second night in a row.
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Senator Proxmire and Constituents

Date: 1970
Description: Senator William Proxmire shakes hands with constituents at the Wisconsin State Fair while eating an ear of corn.
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Ezekiel Gillespie

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie.
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Fair Housing March

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Description: March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right.
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Lloyd Barbee at Milwaukee County Courthouse

Date: 1966
Description: Lloyd Barbee and others gathered in front of the Milwaukee County Courthouse for a rally addressing Civil Rights, education, housing, and police brutality....
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Lew Burdette, Spring Training

Date: 05 16 1958
Description: Milwaukee Braves pitcher Lew Burdette and unidentified woman, probably taken during spring training 1958. Burdette is wearing silly eyeglasses.
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Milwaukee Braves Player Mel Roach

Date: 03 24 1958
Description: Mel Roach of the Milwaukee Braves during spring training 1958. During the championship 1957 season Mel appeared in seven games in August and September as a...

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