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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | "Racine County War Veterans Living and Dead." Composite of small oval head and shoulders portraits, consisting of about 100 Union soldiers, all identified.... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Amzie Moore in military uniform. |
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| Description: | A group of Civil Rights activists, including Septima Clark (left), posing in front of the Highlander Library. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Members of the National Welfare Rights Organization, some dressed in choir robes, hold candles and a cross as they are confronted by police. This is at the... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | The James Duane Doty residence on Doty Street (formerly Clymer Street), the first "Executive Mansion" in Madison, occupied in 1841-1844 by the Territorial ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Lucian (or Lucien) H. Palmer from the 1907 composite image of the Wisconsin Assembly. In 1906, Palmer (a Republican) was the... |
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| Description: | Image of Frederick Douglass taken from his autobiography "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass...". |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Beverly Jefferson, 1/16th African American, published in Madison Past and Present, 1852-1902, a 1902 book published by the Wisconsin State Jour... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A group of African Americans gathered at a picnic table for an outdoor church picnic. |
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| Description: | A woman and two young children are shown in a farm market. |
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| Description: | Workers are shown cutting sugar cane in the fields near New Orleans. Caption reads: "Cutting Sugar Cane In Louisiana." |
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| Description: | Two African American women pose with baskets of fresh vegetables on their heads while selling their produce. A building with an exterior brick chimney is b... |
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| Description: | An African American vendor of oysters and clams is shown pushing his wheelbarrow. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him. |
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| Description: | A man poses while selling chickens on the street. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Samuel S. Pierce, (1870-1936) posing with his mother, Hettie (Starks) Pierce (1829-1944). Hettie was 115 when she died. Hettie, Samuel, his wife Mollie, an... |
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| Description: | Dr. DuBois seated at his desk at Atlanta University where he initiated and edited the Atlanta University Studies on Negro Americans. |
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| Description: | "It Almost Broke Her Up." One of a series of satiric trade cards issued by the Arbuckle's Aroisa Coffee Co. This incident is borrowed from "Texas Siftings,... |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl pose together as they take their bottles of milk at school. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Midge Miller of Madison talking with an unidentified supporter of Eugene McCarthy at the Democratic Convention. Listening intently to their conversation is... |
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| Description: | An advertising card for the National Freedmen's Savings & Trust Company, Norfolk, Virgina branch. |
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