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Card Players

Date: 03 20 1965
Description: Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for...
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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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Future Drafters

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: High school boys in an industrial drafting class using drafting machines and compasses.
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Senior Citizens Card Game

Date: 09 10 1968
Description: Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center.
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The Grill Room

Date: 05 08 1964
Description: A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business.
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Employee Working on a Computer

Date: 08 28 1984
Description: Mary Beaudry, a temporary employee at International Business Machines, works on word-processing and computer equipment.
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Frank Zappa and Mothers of Invention Backstage

Date: 10 20 1971
Description: Ian Underwood, Don Preston, Howard Kayland, Gail Zappa, and Frank Zappa discuss science around a backstage table at the Milwaukee Arena following a show by...
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A Girl in her Flowered Hat

Date: 1967
Description: Lori Miller, 5, wearing one of her mother's “flowered” (ribbon bows) hats.
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Card Party

Date: 1967
Description: Middle-aged woman seated at an outdoor table with refreshments. She is wearing a hat made out of newspaper. The occasion is a card party arranged for older...
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Girl with Origami Peace Crane

Date: 09 20 1989
Description: Melodie Albritton holds up an origami crane she folded at St. Nicholas School.
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Girl with Origami Peace Crane

Date: 09 20 1989
Description: Janine Dagons resting her chin on a table with an origami peace crane sitting in front of her.
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Family Portrait

Date: 09 04 1967
Description: A family posing together indoors; the father is bouncing a young girl standing on his knees. Caption reads: "Mrs. Alan S. Smith and her two sons watched as...
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First Day of School

Date: 08 27 1989
Description: A man is sitting on his sofa, watching his son write a card. Caption reads: "Joe Gofoe said he and his son Elton, 5, were 'big boys' and could handle the f...
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Adam Davis

Date: 06 28 1967
Description: View across desk towards a man talking on a telephone and writing in a notebook. Caption reads: "Adam Davis, who is an insurance salesman, represents the g...
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Hughley Family

Date: 01 11 1972
Description: A family with four children sitting in their living room. Caption reads: "Mr. and Mrs. Boyzie Hughley, 8120 W. Beechwood Ave., sat in their living room wit...
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Jodi, P.J., and Nicki Colosimo

Date: 09 21 1989
Description: A woman is holding a plate over a bowl while a girl is scraping food from it into the bowl. A small child is sitting on the woman's lap. Caption reads: "Jo...
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Walter and Judy Rasner

Date: 05 08 1979
Description: Portrait of a man and woman sitting together on a sofa, with curtains framing windows behind them. Caption reads: "Walter and Judy Rasner relaxed in their ...
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Mary and Mark Drews

Date: 06 08 1984
Description: A woman and a man are posing together in a room. The man is sitting in a chair, and the woman is sitting on the arm of the chair. On a table in the foregro...
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Ed and Linda Krueger

Date: 02 20 1989
Description: View of a woman sitting on a bed with her knees bent, propped up by pillows. A man is standing next to her holding her hand. The woman appears to be holdin...
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Isaac Coggs with Police Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Two African American men smiling while holding a poster. The poster includes a drawing of two smiling police officers and the text: "Milwaukee Policemen ar...

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