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Manitowoc Summer School Classroom

Date: 1961
Description: Teacher Richard Vaughan answers a question for one of the six resident children who took the opportunity offered by the 1961 Manitowoc Summer School to lea...
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Migrant Students in the Library Corner

Date: 1961
Description: Mrs. Shirley Mecha, regular teacher at Meadow Brook School, helping migrant students use resources in the "library corner."
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Migrant Worker March

Date: 08 1966
Description: View of a group of migrant workers carrying signs during a march from Wautoma to Madison to promote workers' rights. Some of the people are carrying the im...
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Alien Head-Tax Receipt

Date: 05 03 1926
Description: Border crossing papers issues by the U.S. Department of Labor for Jovita Prado who was going from Mexico to Milwaukee.
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Ella Stevenson's 98th Birthday

Date: 07 04 1957
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Ella Stevenson taken for her 98th birthday. After the close of the Civil War, she and her family left Pennsylvania to settle in Crawford C...
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Rio Family Harvesting Cherries

Date: 1963
Description: Migrant workers from Mexico, Joe Rio, his wife, and six of their eleven children, pose for a photo during a cherry harvest.
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Alberto Herrera and Baby Brother

Date: 07 1970
Description: Alberto Herrera watching his baby brother who is in a cradle suspended between bunk beds in a migrant worker cabin near Sister Bay. Two baby bottles sit on...
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Linda Luna Washing Clothes at Migrant Worker Camp

Date: 07 1970
Description: Linda Luna of Auraura, Illinois washes clothes at a basin outside a cabin in a migrant worker camp in Door County. Several articles of clothing are lying i...

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