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| Description: | A facsimile of the handwritten document by Abraham Lincoln, with additional decorations, published for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Front page of sheet music to "Those Segregated Blues" words and music written by Milt Klamen. A song written about segregation and equal rights for all. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure with testimonial letters from International Harvester customers. Features a drawing of a man looking over the shoulder of ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Raúl Castro is smoking a cigarette and leaning towards someone writing in a notebook during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin and probably Celia Sanchez ar... |
| Date: | 10 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Adlai Stevenson is seated in a room with several other men. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle as he reads and writes indoors. He is wearing a bracelet (perhaps an ID) on his right wrist, and is holding a cigarette. Another man sitting b... |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips, with her friend and secretary Rose Cooperman. Irna is holding papers and smoking a cigarette. Rose is sitting in the background writing. |
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| Description: | A letter from the perspective of an African American Mississippian to white members of the community. |
| Date: | 09 19 1860 |
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| Description: | Front page of The Wisconsin Chief. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Arthur Miller smoking a pipe while at a rehearsal for the play "After the Fall." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting three soldiers resting on a battlefield. One soldier is smoking a pipe, one soldier is writing a letter, and the third soldier is looking ... |
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| Description: | The first wounded soldiers in Berlin. Soldier in left foreground has to write with his left hand since his right hand was wounded. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Threatening note written on a matchbook, signed "K.K.K." (Ku Klux Klan) that was thrown through Daisy Bates' window in August 1957 with a rock and rag. The... |
| Date: | 06 02 1959 |
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| Description: | The first page of a two page letter written by Rosa Parks to Septima Clark. |
| Date: | 06 02 1959 |
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| Description: | The second page of a two page letter written by Rosa Parks to Septima Clark. |
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