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Father James Groppi at NAACP March

Date: 1968
Description: Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue.
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Houdini, Harry

Date: 
Description: Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive.
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Corn and Brats on the Grill

Date: 06 25 1988
Description: St. Dominic's Catholic Parish members tend the grills at their annual festival.
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Charleston Civil Rights Meeting

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Description: Charleston civil rights mass meeting, Myles Horton speaking. Joe Brown is sitting to the left of the podium, who later joined the South Carolina legislatur...
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Friends of Hebrew University at Picnic

Date: 08 21 1967
Description: About 80 Israeli students and members of the Milwaukee chapter of American Friends of Hebrew University attended a picnic Sunday at the Beaver Lake home of...
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Reverend Wayne Dillabaugh and Jack McManus

Date: 06 27 1978
Description: Wayne Dillabaugh, left, poses with Jack McManus.
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Houdini in Chains

Date: 1919
Description: Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game."
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Houdini on a Rope in "Terror Island"

Date: 1920
Description: Escape artist Harry Houdini being tortured by cannibals in the silent film "Terror Island." Like the other films in which Houdini stared, the plot was desi...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

President John F. Kennedy

Date: 11 23 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Ft. Worth Tex.: Texas Gov. John Connally (L), President Lyndon B. Johnson (C), and the late President ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Jacqueline Kennedy at Funeral

Date: 11 26 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy holds the flag that draped her late husband's coffin as she turns from the gra...
Poster

"O slavnosti a hostech" (A Report on the Party and the Guests) Film Poster

Date: 1966
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster. Abstract collage image of various small figures in different poses against background consisting of yellow, red, and black col...
Poster

"End of a Priest" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Czechoslovakian film, "Faráruv konec." Illustrated image of a priest having each of his arms pu...
Photograph

Lunch Counter Protest

Date: 05 28 1963
Description: A slightly elevated view of a civil rights sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter. John Salter is seated in the foreground. Sitting next to him is Joan Trum...
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James Jesse Strang

Date: 1855
Description: Copy print of a quarter-length daguerreotype portrait of James Jesse Strang.
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Warlock Blessing a Man

Date: 06 1970
Description: A caped man standing on a sidewalk is placing his hands on the head of a kneeling man, while another man in a suit and sunglasses is looking on. Caption re...
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Date: 06 2016
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama at the Masonic Temple, with entourage of monks and wearing a Bucky Badger cap given to him during introductions earlier that m...
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Date: 03 2016
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama during his talk at the Masonic Temple.
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Date: 03 1989
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, in the original Kalachakra temple at the Deer Park Buddhist Center giving a talk to a group of University of Wisconsin Chin...
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Date: 03 2016
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama teaching in the Deer Park Buddhist Center Temple.
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama

Date: 05 10 2016
Description: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama in the Deer Park Buddhist Center Temple.

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