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| Date: | 12 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing iconic masks and white robes parading down King Street to Schroeder Funeral Home for the funeral of Police officer Herbert Drege... |
| Date: | 05 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv... |
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| Description: | American Nazi protesting the rights of African Americans. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | A portrayal of the effects of contact with whites on the Assiniboine chief, Wi-Jun-Jon. (Plate 25). "In offering this illustration to the reader, I am re... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Father Groppi is seated in the back of a police wagon with police officer after being arrested in front of his parish for the second night in a row. |
| Date: | 02 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Two women pose next to gambling machines at Buddy's Place, in the township of Rib Mountain. The bar operated as a house of prostitution. |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Joseph Stalin seated on the patio of Livadia Palace, Yalta, Crimea, Russia, ... |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Rudolph Faust and his brother jointly holding up a basketball in front of a painted backdrop. The Faust brother on the right... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men with cigarettes. From left to right, Mel Pick, Charlie Lenter of Milwaukee, Alphouse Frank, and ... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of two brothers in basketball uniforms with their arms around each other's shoulders. They are standing in front... |
| Date: | 08 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Braves first baseman Frank Torre enjoys a cigar in the Braves lockerroom. A left-handed defensive specialist, Torre filled in for the injured Jo... |
| Date: | 05 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Retiring mail carrier, Mike Cawley, accepting an envelope containing a token of appreciation from Myrtle L. Hansen, clerk of circuit court at the Dane Coun... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Tom Hayden, in the center wearing the dark shirt, looking at a police officer talking to four African-American men. Newark ERAP project. From the SDS colle... |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Mob violence during the integration crisis in Little Rock. Probably taken between September 20th, when Governor Faubus withdrew the National Guard and Sept... |
| Date: | 06 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Police officer inspecting the damage to the home of Andrew Wade and his family after it was bombed. |
| Date: | 05 07 1927 |
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| Description: | At a convention of the Fond du Lac County chapters of the Loyal Temperance League, some of the children present for a group picture hold up a sign that say... |
| Date: | 07 11 1941 |
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| Description: | Float of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in a Milwaukee parade. |
| Date: | 10 1967 |
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| Description: | Poster with a large image of the Dow Riot (Oct. 18, 1967) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, showing riot police beating protesters. Includes t... |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration. |
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