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| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Three individuals point towards shotgun holes in a door and on the side of a building, highlighted by circles. The building is the Pheba Freedom House, use... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Pheba Freedom House, used by civil rights workers. Along the walls and doors, bullet holes have been highlighted with circles. |
| Date: | 12 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Herbert Hilgendorf was sentenced to six months in jail for beating his father, Louis Hilgendorf, a town of Roxbury farmer. |
| Date: | 04 23 1986 |
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| Description: | This image was captured during the re-enactment of a crime that took place at a convenience store on Tuesday, April 22nd, 1986. The killing of Andrew N. Ne... |
| Date: | 09 1973 |
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| Description: | Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the David Fine Freedom Committee. David Fine was the youngest of the four men involved in the Sterling Hall bombing at the University of... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | In this scene still for episode seven ("A Name for a Baby") of the silent serial "Beatrice Fairfax," Beatrice Fairfax (played by Grace Darling) bursts in u... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This scene still for the 1922 Warner drama "The Beautiful and the Damned" is set in a wrecked room with an overturned chair and table, broken picture frame... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | In a log cabin, Bradley Yates (played by Frank Mayo) is confronted by four armed vigilantes, who wear klan-style hoods. The mountain girl Talithy Millicudd... |
| Date: | 08 05 1964 |
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| Description: | Page 4 of The Student Voice featuring the title "Shootings, Beatings, Bombings and Burnings," and a photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer. |
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| Description: | A color program for the film "Riot in Cell Block 11" in Italian (Rivolta al Blocco 11). The cover shows two men attacking another man. An oversized image o... |
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| Description: | Guidelines prepared and distributed as a public service by the Council For Public Safety in New York, NY. A pamphlet survival guide for visitors to the cit... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the French-Italian Film, "Che gioia vivere." Nine illustrated, square panels filled with different scenes. One shows two men fightin... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Argentine film poster. Illustrated image of two men fighting in the street with knives. They are both wearing hats and suits. |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | The Legal Aid Society is one of 29 United Givers agencies. This service is staffed by advanced law students pictured here at the University of Wisconsin wi... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b... |
| Date: | 10 11 1967 |
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| Description: | Caption on reverse of wire photo: "She Digs In--An unidentified anti-war protester with designs painted on her face and carrying sign, "Sifting and Winnowi... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Poster for the film "Madden of the Mounted." Scene in a room of a man holding a chair and lunging towards a woman standing in an open doorway. Another man,... |
| Date: | 07 04 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of white men are posing along a pile of cinder blocks. In front of the blocks, and partially obscured by shadows, is the body of a black man. Capti... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | A fifteen-year-old girl is being helped through the crowd, escorted by a woman and two Rock County police officers. Her face and part of her clothing is co... |
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