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| Date: | 11 19 1934 |
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| Description: | Three hunters posing with shotguns and their bounty of a fox, squirrels and rabbits. The man on the right may be UW-Madison chef Carson Gulley. |
| Date: | 05 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact... |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting depicting a confrontation between police and protesters at the Haymarket in Chicago. Smoke from an explosion drifts in the backgro... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "View of Guard Tent and Guard" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Gu... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Black & white lithograph by Milwaukee lithographer Louis Kurz depicting the Madison Turners or Turnverein at a shooting party on the Madison lakefront. Th... |
| Date: | 06 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Ira Kurth, 3918 Manitou Way, with children Stuart and Kathleen. Stuart is aiming a gun while his father and sister look on. |
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| Description: | "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two men standing in front of two cars, one pointing a handgun at the ground and the other looking at the camera. Each man is holding a bottle, possibly ful... |
| Date: | 08 15 1969 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Berkeley Tribe," an underground newspaper, depicting a couple with a baby. Both the man and the woman are carrying a firearm. The newspaper logo ... |
| Date: | 02 17 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Black Panther: Black Community News Service," an underground newspaper, commemorating the birthday of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey New... |
| Date: | 11 26 1971 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Maine Times," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of a boy holding a rifle and posing next to a deer, suspended from his garage. The... |
| Date: | 05 01 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Liberated Guardian," an underground newspaper, featuring black rebel soldiers carrying firearms. The central figure has a button with a photograp... |
| Date: | 07 25 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Liberation News Service," an underground news bulletin, featuring a Vietnamese woman carrying a firearm on her shoulder. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Mob violence during the integration crisis in Little Rock. Probably taken between September 20th, when Governor Faubus withdrew the National Guard and Sept... |
| Date: | 09 04 1957 |
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| Description: | First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove... |
| Date: | 05 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a rally and candlelight march around the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Mall and Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. Presiden... |
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| Description: | A cartoon depicting an African American family hovering beneath a Ku Klux Klansman (KKK) and a white supremacist in the Reconstruction South. There is a sk... |
| Date: | 05 21 1948 |
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| Description: | National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra... |
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