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Date: | 1932 |
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Description: | African American man operating an experimental two-row cotton picker in a field. |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | "One of the most interesting expeditions which I have ever made in my life was a trip on a hand-car," Hölzlhuber wrote. Julius Movius, the General Agent fo... |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Studio portrait of Mrs. William W. "Fannie" Hendricks in formal dress, including a fur scarf and feather hat, in front of a painted backdrop. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | A studio portrait of Mr. William W. Hendricks, a Black River Falls barber, dressed in his best, posing in front of a painted backdrop. |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
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Description: | Daisy Bates and L.C. Bates, apparently wearing press badges, standing outdoors talking with an unidentified man. L.C. Bates, who is wearing a camera, is ap... |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | Daisy Bates shakes hands with President Eisenhower at the Summit Conference. |
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Description: | A group of African American children drinking from water fountains, or bubblers as they are frequently known in Milwaukee, at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
Date: | 1977 |
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Description: | Willie Mae Small, 107 years old, sits in a chair off to the side during an outdoor service (church?). |
Date: | 1979 |
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Description: | Two men enjoy coffee and a cigarette at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. At this time cigarette smoking in Madison restaurants took place i... |
Date: | 12 20 1945 |
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Description: | Group of 15 women and six men attending a meeting at USO Service Club. The group is predominantly African Americans. Probably taken in First Unitarian Soc... |
Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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Description: | Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its... |
Date: | 03 30 1953 |
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Description: | Dottie Hildebrandt, a Wauwautosa senior in Recreation at the University of Wisconsin, trying on spring hat, assisted by Lonnie Graham. The hat, titled "Gra... |
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Description: | Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana." |
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Description: | Two African American women pose with baskets of fresh vegetables on their heads while selling their produce. A building with an exterior brick chimney is b... |
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Description: | An African American vendor of oysters and clams is shown pushing his wheelbarrow. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him. |
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Description: | A man poses while selling chickens on the street. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him. |
Date: | 12 21 1956 |
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Description: | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. riding a bus with white Methodist minister Glenn Smiley during the Montgomery bus integration struggle. The man seated in fro... |
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Description: | "It Almost Broke Her Up." One of a series of satiric trade cards issued by the Arbuckle's Aroisa Coffee Co. This incident is borrowed from "Texas Siftings,... |
Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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Description: | African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1... |
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