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Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | Stoughton druggist, O.N. Falk, sorts the mail with a smile. |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | Three children reading books near a bookmobile parked in a suburban neighborhood. The bookmobile was an International Loadstar 1600. |
Date: | 05 05 1985 |
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Description: | Father carrying his infant son on his back while mowing the lawn. |
Date: | 07 11 1981 |
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Description: | A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood. |
Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
Date: | 01 19 1968 |
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Description: | Protesters, members of the Milwaukee Americans for Freedom, demonstrate against presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and in favor of the Vietnam war. |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Campaign poster with the title "Posterity" for Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley featuring their portraits. In the center is an illustration of a wom... |
Date: | 08 25 1925 |
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Description: | Young woman drinking a bottle of Orange Crush soda in front of two International Model S Orange Crush delivery trucks parked along a storefront. A driver l... |
Date: | 11 11 1928 |
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Description: | Two men standing outdoors in dress clothes. For Arthur Trowell Inc. Advertising. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench. |
Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
Date: | 12 02 1962 |
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Description: | A group of Madison residents, l-r. Mrs. Arthur Freeman, JoAnn Brandt, Scott Freeman, and Mrs. Mary Engler set up their own "refreshment headquarters" on th... |
Date: | 11 06 1941 |
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Description: | King Tarz, The Seasonal Jungle Actor, (a lion) was brought to Madison to publicize "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" which stars Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sul... |
Date: | 04 18 1944 |
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Description: | Group of boys gather around a frog at a frog jumping contest. |
Date: | 1978 |
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Description: | Native Americans keeping the music alive. George Whitewing, a Ho Chunk musician from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, plays his drum while a crowd looks on in Red Cl... |
Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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Description: | Mayor F. Halsey Kraege standing in front of a 1930 City of Madison map. |
Date: | 1921 |
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Description: | J.M. Eheim posing outdoors with multiple birdhouses. |
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Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Several businessmen converse with each other while observing the World Trade Center construction. |
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