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| Date: | 10 23 1978 |
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| Description: | Staff of the "Guardian," the Marxist-Leninist weekly newspaper, taken on the 40th anniversary of the paper's establishment. The cake is decorated with a ha... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two young students holding books in their kindergarten classroom next to a piano. The young girl is posed seated on a piano bench and holding an open book.... |
| Date: | 12 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Members of the East High School Junior Red Cross Gift Box Drive committee gather around one of the posters that urged student participation. From left are:... |
| Date: | 01 31 1952 |
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| Description: | Four girls admire a poster advertising the Wisconsin High School "Lovers Leap" Dance. From left to right are: Carol Jacobson, Peggy Neesvig, Gloria Jacobs... |
| Date: | 07 11 1917 |
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| Description: | Horse pulling a woman on a wagon in a town along the Trans-Siberian Railway. The woman is sitting in a large wicker basket, and behind her is a box tied wi... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A defunct storefront with a man sitting inside and posters taped in the window. One poster depicts a woman posing in a wet shirt and the other advertises ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a wall with graffiti showing a hand-made poster that reads, "O Happy State when souls each other draw, When Love is Liberty and Nature Law." B... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a metal doorway in the East Village with multiple handmade posters and graffiti proclaiming a strike. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of an advertisement posted on East 4th Street which depicts three people lying in bed smoking marijuana. The copy below reads, "more--when everyt... |
| Date: | 03 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Making plans for Cancer Education Week, members of the Wisconsin High School science club are shown with "Careless Charlie,' inspecting posters. From left ... |
| Date: | 03 14 1952 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson, blood donors, and children, Mike, left and Sharon, right, at the Red Cross blood bank. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a poster attached to a dark wooden surface in the East Village with a layer of trash collected on the ground below. The poster features a blac... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Rope tying demonstration for a group of rural school teachers. Original caption reads: "County Supt. Tobin, Country Life Director, and rural school teacher... |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | Group of several women, probably rural school teachers, assembling wood projects, including benches, while others are learning to tie rope. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of women, probably teachers, using tools to assemble various wooden products including nail boxes, benches and cabinetry(?). Three large posters are ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Educational chart promoting "morality, decency, sanitation and cleanliness" as opposed to "foul thoughts, vile couplets, and immoral habits" found in the "... |
| Date: | 05 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Two men standing by examples of ads, including ones for Ray-o-Vac batteries and Strauss Printing, at an Advertising Club meeting/conference. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two girls mixing food in a bowl while preparing lunch at Sedan Prairie School. A poster reading: "Buy Liberty Bonds" is on the blackboard behind them, and ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the front of a one-room schoolhouse. There is a Red Cross poster hanging in the school entryway, and a smaller outbuilding behind the scho... |
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