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| Date: | 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Two women serving coffee to customers at a coffee shop. Richland Center, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Civil rights sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter. Seated at the counter from left to right are by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody. People pour ... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Group of protesters march in front of a Howard Johnson's restaurant holding signs. One says "Segregation OUT!! Integration IN!! CORE - NAACP". |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | People drinking coffee and smoking at the lunch counter of the Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 30 West Mifflin Street, then known as the 30 on the Square Building... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Two men enjoy coffee and a cigarette at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. At this time cigarette smoking in Madison restaurants took place i... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Four men in informal attire on their coffee break in an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. They are sitting in a booth identified as a no smokin... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Fundraising booth of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin State Fair. At that booth one could purchase soft drinks, milk, and "fir... |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster that was originally displayed outside of The Nitty Gritty in Madison, Wisconsin. Reads, "You Are Wanted in Here!". |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View down counter of women and men sitting and drinking beer or soda. Two men stand on the back left. One woman is wearing a bathing cap, and other women a... |
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| Description: | Magician Eddie Tullock (1919-2007) performing at a restaurant. Minnesota-born Tullock was the originator of "trade show magic," the concept of presenting a... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Group of people, probably including NAACP Youth Council members, picketing outside Marc's Big Boy restaurant. Lloyd Barbee is second from the left. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the Walter Reade-Sterling film "Black Like Me," including a scene of James Whitmore (playing John Horton) in a diner with two unidentified a... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of men standing on the sidewalk outside a local business. The sign on the far left of the image is for a restaurant, and the other buildings furthe... |
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| Description: | Six men standing in a dining room with a bar. Two of the men are bartenders, one of whom is pouring a drink. Three men dressed in suits are leaning against... |
| Date: | 10 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Motor Pool Dispatchers (left to right) Sergeant Alex Petro of Racine, Wisconsin, and Sergeant Joe Nicolazzi of Kenosha, Wisconsin, chat with Corporal Eugen... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Railroad loading platform with a Gurney Refrigerator Company plant in the far background. On the far left a man pulls a hand cart, in the center a man sits... |
| Date: | 02 22 1908 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page of the annual banquet for the Old Settlers' Club. On the top left of the cover is an oval portrait of club president George Willi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Five duck hunters stand in front of Mike Gavin's Buffet holding guns, paddles, and stringers of dead ducks. |
| Date: | 04 19 1970 |
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| Description: | Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne... |
| Date: | 04 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Three people of the 18 protestors outside of the Cuba Club restaurant. A large protest sign states, "Wallace: Blood is on your hands." The protestors were... |
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