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| Date: | 01 15 1987 |
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| Description: | View looking out window at a man who is washing the window. Caption reads: "Edgar Gordon spreads cleanliness and happiness." Edgar William Gordon was a ... |
| Date: | 08 27 1987 |
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| Description: | Two police officers posing together outdoors. Caption reads: "Officers Lois Amsler (left) and Linda Reaves offer advice on personal safety." |
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| Description: | Ed Sullivan is bending down and looking into the eyepiece of a Mitchell movie camera. There are men in the background. |
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| Description: | Movie theater marquee in Havana, Cuba advertising the 1938 film "Blockade" starring Henry Fonda. There is a man dressed in white standing on the sidewalk b... |
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| Description: | A movie theater marquee on top of a building in Havana advertising Charlie Chaplin's film "The Dictator." The caption below the photograph reads: "HAVANA —... |
| Date: | 06 13 1968 |
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| Description: | Several people are walking down a sidewalk carrying signs. Some of the signs read: "Tax Dollar Wasted by Tosa Board," "Wauwatosa School Board Unfair," and ... |
| Date: | 10 16 1967 |
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| Description: | View across sidewalk towards a man sitting on a bench outside a storefront with a screen door that has a sign on it for Purity Bread. An American flag is h... |
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| Description: | Rick Nielsen, guitarist for the band Cheap Trick, flicks a guitar pick into the audience during a concert. |
| Date: | 02 16 1956 |
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| Description: | Airbrush rendering of Brooks Stevens' vision for a redesign of the Oscar Mayer promotional wiener vehicle. The view is an elevated, three-quarter view from... |
| Date: | 03 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Airbrush rendering of Brooks Stevens' vision for a redesign of the Oscar Mayer promotional wiener vehicle. The view is of the left side, and the sign on th... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of actors Jackie Robinson, Ruby Dee, and Roy Glenn filming a scene from the 1950 film "The Jackie Robinson Story." The trio are at a bus stop... |
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| Description: | Jackie Robinson filming a scene from the 1950 movie "The Jackie Robinson Story." Robinson is sitting on a box on a baseball field holding two baseball bats... |
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| Description: | Actor Louis Hayward having makeup applied to his face by an unidentified man, next to actor Joseph Shildkraut. Both are in costume for the 1939 film "The M... |
| Date: | 05 20 1989 |
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| Description: | Two young men stand together. One is holding a sign that is barely visible. Next to him is another sign that reads "Come and help STOP the VIOLENCE". Capti... |
| Date: | 06 20 1985 |
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| Description: | View of a bridge, with cars parked along the sides, and a "Road Closed" sign in the left foreground. Caption reads: "NEW BRIDGE — Work on the Falls Rd. bri... |
| Date: | 10 23 1985 |
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| Description: | A group of five people are working on freshly poured cement outside a shop called Mac's Archery Supplies, Inc. Caption reads: "A group from Wiggins Constru... |
| Date: | 10 01 1977 |
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| Description: | Several African-American teenagers are standing outside a building, some wearing coats and some under umbrellas. A sign reads: "Fight for the Right." Capti... |
| Date: | 12 10 1977 |
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| Description: | Several people wearing coats, hats, and gloves are walking in a circle outside a building. One person is holding a sign that reads: "Drop the Holdings, Est... |
| Date: | 06 29 1989 |
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| Description: | Two boys and a man are looking into the cockpit of a race car. Caption reads: "A CLOSE LOOK — David Berner (left), 11, of West Allis, and Jay Gmeindl, 9, o... |
| Date: | 10 15 1940 |
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| Description: | In the center of a large crowd of people in the lobby of the Capitol Theatre, actress Paulette Goddard dressed in white is smiling broadly as is Charlie Ch... |
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