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| Date: | 09 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Wingspread, the Frank Lloyd Wright designed conference center of the Johnson Foundation. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Automobile Workers Union, Local 180 posed outside the tractor works in Racine with a banner indicating their demands. |
| Date: | 08 07 1967 |
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| Description: | Harry Funmaker (left) of Wisconsin Dells, and Ray Tahawah of Lawton, Oklahoma, drumming. A crowd of young people is in the background. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | View of the Golden Rondelle with the Johnson Wax Research Tower in the background taken from the northeast corner of Franklin and 14th Streets.There is a p... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Boy standing below the Golden Rondelle with the Johnson Wax Research Tower in the background. Workers on scaffolding can be seen on the tower in the distan... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | First page of a draft of a letter from the Racine branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urging more militant activity in... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Second page of a draft of a letter from the Racine branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urging more militant activity i... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Letter from James V. Rizzo, Chairman of the Racine AFL-CIO Council's Community Service Committee, to Leland E. Johnson, President of the Racine Community S... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Three men pose together on a picket line at the Case plant. The man in the center holds a sign reading: "Case Local demands justice." The Case eagle on a g... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of the Racine Kiltie Drum & Bugle Corps. They are all posed with their instruments and wearing their uniforms. The uniforms have a Scottis... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Cardboard Hanukkah decoration used by three generations of a Wisconsin family, c. 1960. (Museum object #2002.388.6) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Multi-Purpose Food from Cold War fallout shelter in Racine, Wisconsin, 1960. (Museum object #1996.81.81) |
| Learn about the strong influence Wisconsin held on the national automobile industry in the early-mid 20th Century. |
| Promotions on Paper, 1850s-1975 |
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| Custom-designed letterheads were a universal way of proclaiming who you were. Historical letterheads are prime examples of early branding. |
| Automobiles in Wisconsin History |
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| Read about the evolution of the automotive industry and the drastic changes in manufacturing work, road infrastructure, the economy and American culture. |
| View these 19th-century panoramic, detailed maps of Wisconsin communities. |
| Read about the brewing industry, the temperance movement, and the effects of prohibition in Wisconsin. |
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