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| Date: | 01 17 1919 |
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| Description: | Governor Emmanuel Philipp ratifying the 18th Amendment which made Prohibition law. From left to right: Executive Messenger, Samuel Banks; Senator George B.... |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers Local 80 picketing the Campbell Soup Company plant. The union had walked out as a result of wage, union shop, an... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Russell Lasley, an African-american leader of the United Packinghouse Workers union and later the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, meetin... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights... |
| Date: | 05 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Packinghouse Workers Local 392 in Baltimore getting ready for Children's Day on the picket line. Frank McCarty, of the UPWA, is about t... |
| Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| Date: | 08 08 1945 |
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| Description: | Students attending a lecture. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science, Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Madison for several summers... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William, Sarah (probably Amelia), and Ollie Greene, three children of Thomas and Harriet Greene. The Greenes were settlers in the Pleasant Ridg... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Greene, seated outdoors in a chair, holding a cane. There is a fence and trees in the background. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Butts posing outside the Wisconsin Historical Society where he worked as a messenger. |
| Date: | 02 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Five drum majors of the Four Lakes Council (Madison area) Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps. Left to right: Charles Harris, Charles Butler, James Berray, Stan... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Minnie Owens, daughter of pioneer settler Nathaniel Owens, posing with a stringed instrument. She performed in Kentucky Juvenile Minstrels. |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Isaac Sheppard, a former slave, posing with his daughters Ella, Eliza, and Emily. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mason Richmond, son of Lillie Greene Richmond, in uniform. He served in World War I. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the Greene, Shepard, Gadlin, Grimes, and Craig families who lived in the Pleasant Ridge community. |
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| Description: | Five African American men with instruments inside a shed or barn: an upside down gutbucket with USA painted on the side, 2 violins, a guitar, and a stand-u... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three men unload an International truck owned by J.E. Vann and Company Wholesale Grocers. The truck is carrying bags and crates of merchandise and is parke... |
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