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UAW-CIO Local 75 Election

Date: 12 1946
Description: Members of the United Automobile Workers union, Local 75, line up outside the local's headquarters, 308 E. Center Street, to vote on delegates to the union...
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Dairy Cooperative Supports Packinghouse Workers Strike

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: A driver for Dairy Distributors, Inc. cooperative of Watertown, Wisconsin delivering milk to strikers' soup kitchen.

"Several dairies have volunteered to...

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Stocking the Strike Kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Workers stocking the strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Fred Koratko, Corneli...
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Packinghouse Workers Strike Kitchen

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov...
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School Desegregation Pickets

Date: 1964
Description: A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation.
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Five Cent Beer

Date: 08 20 1963
Description: Knights of Columbus member celebrates at an annual "gay nineties" party. He stands next to a sign that advertises beer at five cents a glass.
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Hawaiian Night, Sky-View Nursing Home

Date: 03 29 1962
Description: Three women with leis around their necks. Caption reads: "It was Hawaiian night Wednesday for patients at the Sky-View nursing home, 901 S. 3rd St. Mrs. Ca...
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Protester amongst the Protesters

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: A young woman is holding up a sign for the Student Union Movement, a social justice group based out of Milwaukee Area Technical College, and a megaphone. S...
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Richard F. Redfield in Costume

Date: 01 24 1958
Description: A man is posing in a leather fringed costume and fur cap, with what appears to be a fake beard. He is holding two dead animals up in his right hand. Two ot...

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