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| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | L.C. and Daisy Bates watching television with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus on the screen. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A woman in business attire walking with an open umbrella on a rainy day in downtown Milwaukee. To her left is the Civil War monument, "The Victorious Charg... |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern, wife of Ernest G. Kern, hauling water in buckets to the hen house. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern in the hen house watering the laying hens. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern picking up the mail at the roadside mailbox. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground. |
| Date: | 10 23 1956 |
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| Description: | Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath... |
| Date: | 11 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Alma Stofen and Joanne Coyne dance to the accompaniment of clapping hands of women watching at a YWCA Health Education Department harvest square dance. |
| Date: | 06 26 1955 |
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| Description: | Unidentified woman golfer posing outdoors at the Maple Bluff Country Club. |
| Date: | 10 11 1956 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of members of the Russell Frost family. The woman in the center is holding her ankle-length skirt wide to the sides. |
| Date: | 09 1956 |
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| Description: | A crossing guard helps a young student to cross the street at a cross walk at Abert and Green Bay streets in Milwaukee. Two cars (one a Chevrolet), have en... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women load wooden crates onto a boxcar at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
| Date: | 10 15 1956 |
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| Description: | Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Six Alpha Gamma Delta alumnae members assist with arrangements for a benefit bridge party. Seated in the foreground are: Mrs. H.L. (Esther) Manthei, 44306... |
| Date: | 04 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Pictured are Mrs. Gordon (Dolly) Harmon, at left, who will be the narrator for the Jaycettes' fashion show, and some of the group who will model vacation ... |
| Date: | 05 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of young people from the Madison area who will travel together in Europe this summer. Standing, left to right: Helen Olson, Charles Sharpe, ... |
| Date: | 05 05 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin's annual Senior Swingout ceremony is to be held May 20 on Bascom Hill as an important feature of Parents' Weekend on the campus. Ho... |
| Date: | 05 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Marie Adele Fish, left, chairman of the women's organization at Maple Bluff Country Club, is joined by Dorothy Guild outside of a building (possibly the cl... |
| Date: | 05 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Women golfers at Maple Bluff Country Club. Virginia Sprague (right), chairman of the women's Maple Bluff rules committee, and Esther Hermsen prepare to put... |
| Date: | 05 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Patty Ann Geaney, 21-month-old daughter of Captain and Mrs. Edward J. Geaney, residents of Eagle Heights, University of Wisconsin Houses, watches older chi... |
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