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Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | Daisy Bates shakes hands with President Eisenhower at the Summit Conference. |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | Fidel Castro is seated with his constant companion Celia Sanchez, and Vilma Espin, who sits to Castro's left. Cuba. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Three men in long coats and hats are standing outdoors and staging an elaborate temperance portrait, which includes jugs and an artificial human skull. |
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: | 04 1942 |
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Description: | A man and woman posed at the bar in Nesbitt's Highway Tavern, on Highway 42, North of Kenosha. Gambling machines can be seen on the left. |
Date: | 01 20 1944 |
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Description: | An unidentified man, with a cigarette in his mouth, is holding a Collie puppy up for auction at Governor Walter Goodland's dog sale. |
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... |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Leaders of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters parade at their annual convention. |
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: | 01 20 1944 |
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Description: | Arthur W. Friede, President of Gentile League, an organization "to give Gentiles equal rights with Jews." The Wisconsin State Journal investigated t... |
Date: | 1889 |
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Description: | Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with... |
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Description: | Drawing showing escaped slave Joshua Glover being seized at Racine. |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Racine Chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks wearing suits, hats with oversized brims with large flower deco... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Corn binder hitched to two mules in field in Algeria. In the distance are low hills. One bearded man, wearing what appears to be a full-length hooded jella... |
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Description: | Men approaching a train at the railroad depot carrying farm machinery from the J.I. Case Company. |
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Description: | Native American man, possibly John Swallow, smoking a pipe near a barred window, possibly a jail, except the window has panes and curtains, and at his feet... |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Alice in Dairyland, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, greeting admiring members of the public at the junior livestock exposition in Eau Claire. The Alice in Dairyland com... |
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: | People sitting at tables, drinking and talking. A large banner with a picture of Thaddeus Kosciuszko hangs on the wall. |
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