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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street of a McCormick agency(?) or dealership(?) building, possibly in Germany. Men are standing near the entrance, and other men are ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View across Main Street. A bike rests on the curb while a group of well-dressed men gather on the sidewalk nearby. Business signs read: "The Ensign Co.," "... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Broadway Street business district, with electric lights and power lines overhead, and streetcar tracks. Text on bank building (far left) reads:... |
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| Description: | Christmas greeting card or postcard with view of Front Street. Business signs read: "First National Bank," "John Wernecke Merchant Tailor," "Moore's," "Sal... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An imposing two-story structure on the corner of Oak Street and Third Avenue. Lawyers offices occupy the upstairs. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street of a group of employees, all men, posing outside their cafe. The cafe advertises Kennedy Dairy Company brand ice cream, Coca-Cola produc... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street of a group of men standing on the sidewalk in front of the bank. A streetlamp hangs from a utility line. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street lined with shops. Cars are sporadically parked along the curbs. There is a hotel, the Fritzstoldt tailor, soda fountain and drug stor... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Part of a United Public Workers parade/demonstration on a downtown city street. A horse-drawn wagon carries some participants. Parade signs read "No Swivel... |
| Date: | 04 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of street scene of a run on the First National Bank. The sidewalk is crowded with people, spilling into the street. A horse-drawn buggy is dr... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers on the sidewalk in front of a Kroger supermarket in Oshkosh demonstrating for and against the grape boycott. Signs read, "Eat Grapes Best Medicin... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A picketer pushing the wheelchair of another supporter of the United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO grape boycott. They are possibly picketing in front of a superma... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Jon P. Wilcox (far left), cucumber grower and state legislator, crossing the grape boycott picket line at a Kroger store. In 1969, Grape boycotts in Wiscon... |
| Date: | 08 03 1956 |
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| Description: | Six children and an adult posing in front of the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper office at 115 South Carroll Street. The children had put on a nei... |
| Date: | 08 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin, sportswriter for Wisconsin State Journal, with five girls who put on a neighborhood style show t... |
| Date: | 08 17 1892 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a bell wagon pass in a circus parade, probably the Ringling Brothe... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Rosser Reeves and Dwight D. Eisenhower leaving the Transfilm Building after filming fifty political spots in one day. (Rosser Reeves wearing glasses.) Eise... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Badger State Bank, which is on the first floor. On the second floor is a dentist's office. A telephone or telegraph pole is on the ... |
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