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| Date: | 02 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Green Bay Packers football coach, Vince Lombardi, being interviewed at the professional football writers dinner. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 08 26 1908 |
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| Description: | In a festive mood, Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company employees disembark from flag-decked trolley cars to enjoy a company-sponsored outing. The ... |
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| Description: | Six fighters in pugilistic poses, in the boxing ring with their coach. The Milwaukee Urban League provided community activities, like boxing, for children ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1968 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival. |
| Date: | 11 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Uptown Post #400 Drill Team in formation firing a salute on Armistice Day while passers-by pause to pay their respects. |
| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 03 20 1965 |
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| Description: | Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for... |
| Date: | 04 21 1957 |
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| Description: | An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway. |
| Date: | 08 31 1909 |
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| Description: | A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants... |
| Date: | 08 06 1934 |
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| Description: | Reverend Richard Kiefer of Sacred Heart monastery in Hales Corners, Wisconsin, joins in the bingo competition at a Catholic picnic, as women and children a... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Two boys on the class-C scow sailboat "Bobalong III," with one boy balancing off the side while standing with one leg on the bilge keel. |
| Date: | 10 07 1977 |
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| Description: | Man and woman napping on the rocks with their hats down over their eyes as they fish for salmon. |
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| Description: | A motorcyclist drives down the middle of the road, possibly in a race, as a crowd looks on. |
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| Description: | A crowd of people in the street, many of them with motorcycles, possibly getting ready to race. |
| Date: | 06 1946 |
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| Description: | In the Money: The Bronzeville All-Star Bowling Team which finished in the money in the recent Wisconsin state CIO-sponsored bowling tournament. |
| Date: | 09 02 1946 |
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| Description: | R.J. Thomas, vice-president UAW-CIO, addresses the crowd at Milwaukee Labor Day celebration, State Fair Park. |
| Date: | 04 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Bronzeville Bombers just after coming through with a score of 2690, putting them in tenth place in the state CIO tournament on April 5. The five men are a... |
| Date: | 12 07 1946 |
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| Description: | Striking Allis Chalmbers workers and CIO supporters on parade in 1946. In later years it was common suggested that the Communist-dominated Milwaukee CIO h... |
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