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Martin Luther King, Jr. Vigil

Date: 1968
Description: Members of the National Welfare Rights Organization, some dressed in choir robes, hold candles and a cross as they are confronted by police. This is at the...
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Cheyenne Police

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Description: The Cheyenne Police, with Tall Bull as their Captain, seen on the right side of the image.
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John F. Kennedy at West Palm Beach

Date: 04 1963
Description: John F. Kennedy and another man by a white car at West Palm Beach. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "on Lake Worth while visiting Fred and ...
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President Herbert Hoover and Governor Kohler

Date: 11 05 1932
Description: Herbert Hoover stands with Governor Kohler on the back of a train during a campaign visit. The man in the hat holding the rail of the train car is U.S. Sec...
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Highway Patrolman Issues Ticket

Date: 1961
Description: Highway patrolman issue's ticket ot motorist. Photograph taken by a Milwaukee Journal photographer who was covering the day of the Wisconsin State H...
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Capture of Joshua Glover

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Description: Drawing showing escaped slave Joshua Glover being seized at Racine.
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Walter Goodland with John Grindell and Aloys Klaas

Date: 09 04 1943
Description: Governor Goodland conferring with District Attorney John Grindell and Sheriff Aloys Klaas about gambling in Grant County.
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Worker Harassment

Date: 06 1955
Description: Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai...
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Young Man in Custody

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Description: Unidentified image of a young man in a suit and tie being escorted by a police officer into a court room.
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Police Near Cars at Textile Workers Strike

Date: 1937
Description: Police standing near their cars near a textile workers strike. The spare tire in the foreground reads, "Drive Safely".
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Mothers Against the War

Date: 1966
Description: Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam.
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Men Testing Breathalizer Machine

Date: 1958
Description: Robert Warren, then the District Attorney of Brown County, tries out a breathalizer machine. With him are Glenn Cunningham and Ray Bayley, officers of th...
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Sheriff Destoying Slot Machines

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Description: Sheriff Fred Simon and unidentified man in the process of destroying slot machines.
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Strike Surveillence

Date: 08 1958
Description: Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the...
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Police Surveillence of Farm Workers

Date: 1961
Description: Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike.
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Lettuce Strike

Date: 1961
Description: United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) field representative John Soria watching picket line and police activities during the important Imperial Vall...
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Composite Views of a Georgia Ferry and a Chain Gang

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Description: Two views, one of a ferry and the other of a chain gang. The ferry operator poses with a man in his carriage on the ferry, with trees in the background. Th...
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Beheaded Criminals in China

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Description: A view of four beheaded men lying on the ground with a group of officers standing behind, posing for the camera. A man to the left in the central group hol...
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Humane Indian Policy Cartoon

Date: 02 08 1879
Description: A cartoon entitled: "The Latest Illustration of Our Humane Indian Policy" depicting an imprisoned, injured Native American man who has been served "boiled ...
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Women in Iron County Jail

Date: 08 05 1942
Description: Four women in an Iron County Jail cell after a sweeping raid on many Hurley area establishments. One woman is thumbing her nose at the camera. The arrest w...

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