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| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Suffragist Katherine Waugh McCullough speaking from an open car. A banner on the car reads: "Votes for Women." |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A crowd of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators march down Wisconsin Avenue with signs and banners. One banner reads: "Stop the Bombing. Sign the Treaty Now! U.S... |
| Date: | 11 1924 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr. speaking to a large crowd from the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. This speech marked the end of his independent campaign for the... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation" |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | "Old Abe" and "Color Guard" of the Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, posed in uniform, outside with Old Abe on a shield perch. Likely Edward H... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Street parade rig, apparently to agitate against delays in construction of a railroad to connect Manitowoc to the west. In the background is a store owned ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport. |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Peoples' New Year's Party at the Langston Huges [sic] Center. Includes the motto "Same struggle — same fight." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Lathrop, Post Mistress, stands with a dog and other people in front of the Post Office. There is a shoreline on the left. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Uniformed soldiers marching in a World War I homecoming parade. Many men are carrying flags, and the street is heavily decorated with U.S. flags. The soldi... |
| Date: | 10 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the "Hollywood Ten," together with members of their families at a demonstration before their im... |
| Date: | 03 03 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a suffrage parade, with a large crowd looking on. The sign on the horse-drawn wagon reads: "We Demand an Amendment to the Constitution of ... |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | TWUA officials are shown seated at a table during a strike meeting with picket signs in front of the table. From left to right are business manager Charles... |
| Date: | 06 1932 |
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| Description: | World War I veterans seated on the ground around a car with slogans painted on it such as "We Want Our Bonus" and "Bonus Seekers V.F.W. 796". They are prot... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber protesting welfare cuts. Father Groppi is seated on the lef... |
| Date: | 05 1954 |
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| Description: | An integrated banquet hall during the Ninth Convention in Sioux City, Iowa. There is a banner overhead that reads "100% Price Support For Farmers Is Job Su... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation. |
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| Description: | Engraving of a woman (a suffragist) dressed in costume derived from classical mythology, and underneath is the slogan: "I Will Vote." |
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| Description: | The steamboat Canada at dock; cargo on lower deck, passengers on upper deck, and crowd waiting on the dock. The Canada was built in 1858, dis... |
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