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Anti-Franco Demonstration

Date: 03 1946
Description: CIO members joined Lincoln Brigade veterans in a demonstration on Wisconsin Avenue last week to demand the breaking off of U.S. diplomatic relations with F...
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Mobile X-Ray Machine

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: Bus containing mobile x-ray machine with sign, "Wisconsin State Board of Health, Tuberculosis Survey." A male technician is standing beside the bus. The bu...
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Mobile X-ray Machine

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: School bus interior with a mobile x-ray machine. A male technician stands by while another man stands in front of the diagnostic unit.
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Manhattan International Motor Truck Service Station

Date: 12 03 1934
Description: Mechanics at work on trucks in the shop department of a Manhattan International motor truck service station. One of the trucks is a Greyhound bus.
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Badger Bus Line

Date: 06 05 1946
Description: Lorraine Thelen shown boarding one of the "fast express" buses operating between Madison and Milwaukee by Badger Coaches, Inc. The driver shown is Bill Bes...
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Madison Bus Company

Date: 08 01 1947
Description: The Madison Bus Company's new 45 seat bus shown with company officials and former employees formerly associated with the Madison Railways Company, the pred...
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Cultivating Tobacco with International Super A

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Description: Side view of a man cultivating tobacco in a field with an International Super A tractor. A house and other buildings are among trees in the background, inc...
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Greyhound Bus and Driver

Date: 05 1965
Description: A Greyhound bus driver collects tickets while standing in front of his bus en route to Traverse City. There are several pieces of luggage in front of the b...
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K.A.T. Employee Bus

Date: 02 09 1937
Description: A driver exits an International bus marked: "K.A.T. Employees" in a dirt parking lot. Other passengers sit inside the vehicle, and International's Springfi...
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C-1 Station Wagon

Date: 06 15 1936
Description: A group of women sit in an International C-1 station wagon parked in front of a building marked: "Macklin Grinding Wheels." A male driver wearing a hat is ...
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Newsboys Bus Trip

Date: 05 29 1950
Description: 101 Madison Newspapers, Inc. carrier boys from Madison and southwestern Wisconsin stand by three charter buses before the start of their trip to the Memori...
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Lewis Arms with Greyhound Bus

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Description: Lewis R. Arms poses in front of a Greyhound Bus that displays the destination "Madison" above the windshield. Arms worked for Greyhound at the time.
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Don't Buy Rath

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Workers leaving the John Deere factory read literature from United Packinghouse of America workers on strike at a nearby plant. Although the location of th...
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Lettuce Strike

Date: 1961
Description: United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) field representative John Soria watching picket line and police activities during the important Imperial Vall...
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Robert Garvey, Bus Driver

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Portrait of Robert P. Garvey, a bus driver for the Madison Bus Company, seated behind the steering wheel.
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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: Close-up of two participants, a man and a boy, in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration. Both are looking at the photographer and the boy carries a ...
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Bancroft Obreros Unidos Strikers

Date: 08 24 1967
Description: Elevated view of 150 workers rallying as a part of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) protest against poor working conditions of migrant farm workers in the S...
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Grape Boycott Picketers — Contact Sheet

Date: 1969
Description: Four frames from a contact sheet containing images of grape boycott picketers. The picketers are in front of a Krogers grocery store. In frame 34, Sandi Ut...
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Frame 19: "We Want to Vote"

Date: 1964
Description: Two men holding protest signs are walking down a sidewalk past a white police officer who is holding a bullhorn at a Greenwood Freedom Day. In the backgrou...
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Arthur J. Altmeyer

Date: 1963
Description: Arthur J. Altmeyer standing in front of the Social Security Administration Headquarters. In 1973 the building was renamed the Altmeyer Building in his hono...

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