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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 11 20 1934 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Pres. Glenn Frank sitting in a swivel chair reading: "The open door at the home." |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 09 02 1965 |
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| Description: | Avant garde patrons smoke and listen to poets, singers and guitarists. |
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| Description: | A carte-de-visite of a slave sitting with three children. The text at the bottom read: "Learning is Wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, & Rosa. Slaves from N... |
| Date: | 01 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the executive committee of the Holy Name Union for the Catholic diocese of Madison meeting to plan the activities for 1948. Left to right... |
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| Description: | Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette. |
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| Description: | Two CIO students reading books outside at Highlander Folk School. One book is titled, "The CIO and World Affairs". |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, doing homework. |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rosa Parks at Mrs. Anne Braden's home. |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks being interviewed by Mrs. Anne Braden, editor of the "Southern Patriot," at Braden's home. |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch & Harold Gauer play poker sitting at a table strewn with cards and chips. |
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| Description: | Bloch dressed as the "Geekmaster" and Gauer as the "Geek." Gauer is "geeking" a wooden snake in the photograph. It was to be used to illustrate an unpublis... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Gauer at typewriter in the Brady Street "Lab. A similar one was taken of Bloch, then one was reversed and printed together to show Bloch and Ga... |
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| Description: | A group of fun-loving friends pose together. In the front row, from left to right, are Harold Gauer, Marion Bloch, Victor Ehr, Mary Jo Vonier and Robert Bl... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch, standing next to shelves of books, in front of a door covered with cardboard. He is wearing the gaudy costume of the King Geek for a photo sh... |
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| Description: | Robert Vail, dressed up as a Monk, subtly caresses the thigh of Angie Vail. Vais is smoking and wearing only a tuxedo jacket with a bow tie, hat, and shoes... |
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| Description: | Amusing portrait of the gang "spoofing" jazz and beatnik culture. Alice Bedard is receiving a hypo injection labeled "JAZZ" from harold Gauer while Robert ... |
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| Description: | Humorous picture of the "Joe Must Go" group in funny outfits sitting on a stairway. The "Joe Must Go" group was trying to get enough signatures to get Joe ... |
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