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On Strike

Date: 11 05 1962
Description: Lone picketer from Painters' Local 781 protests against workers not receiving union wages, hours, and benefits.
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Picketers Protesting Economic Exploitation

Date: 11 18 1966
Description: Two men carry signs to protest exploitation of tenants who are members of Local 404 by their landlord who is manager of College Barber Shop.
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International Truck Dealers Pose with Truck Driver

Date: 1976
Description: View of two International truck dealers posing with truck driver and International Transtar II in front of dealership. Truck was owned by Carstensen Freigh...
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Air Pollution Inspector

Date: 1975
Description: Color photograph of an air pollution inspector wearing sunglasses is holding his badge near the door emblem on his International Scout II pickup. The truck...
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Man Entering Subway Station

Date: 1969
Description: A man descends the stairs to a subway station near the construction of the World Trade Center.
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Filling Up the Historymobile

Date: 04 01 1957
Description: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Historymobile at the Clark Service Station, 2631 University Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Tschudy (Jake and Irene),...
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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker...
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Grape Boycott Picketing

Date: 1968
Description: On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott....
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Milwaukee Grape Boycott Picketers

Date: 1969
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...
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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Francisco Rodriguez of Crystal City, Texas is picketing a Wautoma grocery store during the grape boycott in 1968. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organize...
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Wisconsin Democrats

Date: 1984
Description: The audience at the Lincoln County fairgrounds who gathered to hear Democratic candidates Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, with the national media cov...
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Woolworth's Protest

Date: 1964
Description: A protest of Woolworth's department store during Freedom Summer. A line of people are standing on the sidewalk in front of Woolworth's show windows while a...
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Woolworth's Protest

Date: 1964
Description: A group of male and female protestors and law enforcement officers stand on the sidewalk outside of a Woolworth's department store during Freedom Summer. O...
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Happy Days!

Date: 1944
Description: A photograghic card created by Robert Doyle to wish friends and family "Iamu Mwasawa!" A smiling, quarter-length portrait of Robert Doyle in uniform appear...
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Meat Cutters Union Local 444 Strikers

Date: 07 03 1964
Description: Striking members of Meat Cutters Union Local 444 employed at Neesvig's Packing Co. picketing in front of the Park Motor Inn, a customer of the meat process...
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Brooks McCormick

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Description: Brooks McCormick walking with two men near a building with a sign that reads, in part: "Przemysl Motoryzacyun." The location may be in Poland.
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Men Using TD-24 Crawler Tractors Constructing Veterans Hospital

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Description: Owned by Henry M. Turpin, 3300 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio. TD-24's used with a Bucyrus-Erie 170 scrapers and P-29 winches. The TD-18's used with Heil bulld...
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Man Operating TD-25

Date: 1972
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man operating a TD-25 on the side of a hill. There is a valley in the background. Vecellio and Grogan, Inc., workin...
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Katy Tur Covering the Donald Trump Rally

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: NBC news correspondent Katy Tur is standing outdoors and speaking into a microphone. She is reporting on the Donald Trump rally. A camera operator is stand...
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Interviewing Protesters

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A young woman holding a red notebook and standing next to a camera is holding out a microphone towards several protesters at the Donald Trump rally. The pr...

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