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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: | 1853 |
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Description: | Half plate daguerreotype of E. Harwood, Dr. William Brisbane, and Levi Coffin, sitting in a row. |
Date: | 04 30 1961 |
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Description: | Pictured left to right are James Dombrowski, Carl and Anne Braden, Frank Wilkinson, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta King at a reception in Atlanta, Geo... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi... |
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Description: | Seated portrait of Peter D. Thomas (1847-1925) of Racine. Thomas was an escaped slave who joined the 15th Wisconsin Regiment during its service in Tennesse... |
Date: | 10 15 1935 |
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Description: | Interior view of the Congress Tavern, 111 Main Street, on a busy night. |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Daisy Bates and others at Woolworth's boycott. |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Two men sitting in the stands review the Milwaukee Braves official program during a game. |
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Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
Date: | 12 06 1967 |
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Description: | Instructor teaching the harmful effects of smoking, drinking alcohol, and using drugs. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Two men smoking pipes and playing cards in the grass along a riverbank. |
Date: | 09 12 1927 |
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Description: | Two men dressed in hats and ties are crouching down in a farm field to show the size of the plants. One of the men has a pipe in his mouth. |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | Men and women celebrating the end of Prohibition, around a table with bottles of various alcoholic beverages. They are holding a sign that reads: "In Compl... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Will Viel chooses a cigar in Margraff & Freiburger's Dry Goods Store. |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Man with a cigar in his mouth standing in front of a showroom window holding a framed poster for "the new International trucks." Two cars and a truck are i... |
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Description: | Smoking and games in the lounge of a commercial airliner. The original caption for this unidentified photograph reads: "Delicious lunches, even six course ... |
Date: | 12 11 1918 |
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Description: | Two men, at least one of them a miner, standing in front of the no. 7 opening to the no. 2 mine. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harve... |
Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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Description: | Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland sitting at his desk in the Capitol with pipe in hand. |
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