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| Date: | 01 11 1982 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of E. Gordon Young, an attorney and civil rights activist who became the state's first black assistant attorney general in 1965. At... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an ink drawing of James "John" Adams Riley aka Snowball. He is pictured wearing a striped coverall and billed cap. Gloves and window ... |
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| Description: | Printed postcard of James "John" Adams Riley aka Snowball. Text on reverse reads, "Snowball — window-washer, philosopher, affectionately named by students ... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of James "John" Adams Riley aka Snowball. |
| Date: | 05 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Chef Carson Gulley holding two pies and standing in front of a rack of fudge bottom pies. He is posing for a WMTV ad for his cooking show to be broadcast ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Paul Arms as an infant sitting on an ottoman with a toy on his lap at Lewis Arms' house at 847 Williamson Street. An adult is partially visible on the left... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Baby Paul Arms playing in the water at a beach with his mother LuRay. His sisters Rita and Mamie are in the background. |
| Date: | 05 01 1966 |
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| Description: | Paul Arms touching the nose of a donkey through a fence at the Vilas Park Zoo as his sister Rita looks on. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Janet Sauk and Lewis Arms posing together. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms posing with his daughters Mamie (left) and Rita (right), and his son Paul. Arms is wearing a suit and necktie and the girls are wearing dresses. |
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| Description: | Promotional poster created by Globe Poster Corporation announcing a baseball game between the Havana La Palomas, of the Independent Negro League, and the W... |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | African-American bookmobile driver, Bert Rogers, checking for carbon monoxide in the bookmobile because the motor is kept running for heat. The bookmobile ... |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Sylvia Nuckles checking out a book from Bert Rogers, the driver and circulation staff for the Madison Free Library bookmobile. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Some of the children of Lewis Arms (and possibly their friends) ice skating and riding on sleds on the ice at Tenney Park in the winter. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Janet Sauk and Lewis Arms sitting on a sofa together. Lewis has his arm around Janet. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Rita Arms sitting on a chair in the kitchen playing her electric guitar. |
| Date: | 05 01 1966 |
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| Description: | The Arms family posing together in front of an animal enclosure at Vilas Park Zoo. From left to right are Lewis Arms, and his children Paul Arms, Mamie Arm... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Rita Arms is using a hairdryer with cap, with the dryer sitting next to her on a TV tray. |
| Date: | 10 1966 |
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| Description: | One of Lewis Arms's children (most likely Paul Arms) is wearing a Halloween mask and holding a jack-o-lantern. He is standing in front of a rocking horse o... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Mamie Arms climbing to the top of a swing set. |
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