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| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A recruiter's billboard advertising work available for pickle harvesters. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggle ... |
| Mormon clergyman |
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| Discover the history of Jason W. Briggs |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Elements of Victorian design and decoration are seen in the main floor parlor. Ribbon and floral wreathing draws attention to the upper walls and high ceil... |
| Community: | Burlington |
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| County: | Racine |
| Historic Name: | Montgomery House |
| Reference Number: | 12059 |
| The Roots and Legacy of the Farmworkers Movement |
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| First-hand narrative of the fight for farmworkers' rights from celebrated labor leader, Jesus Salas |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott.... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Fall River Canning Company's president William Evans stands in the center with migrant farm workers around him after their walkout. Eighty workers of His... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Francisco Rodriguez of Crystal City, Texas is picketing a Wautoma grocery store during the grape boycott in 1968. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organize... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicano migrant farm workers being transported to a field on a cold Texas winter morning on the back of a truck. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-n... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | The interior of a floorless tin communal shower hut with shower heads and sinks for migrant farm workers in a labor camp. This photograph is a part of Wi... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A job advertisement published in the "Waushara Argus" seeking men and women over the age of 16 to work at the Chicago Pickle Company. This photograph is ... |
| Date: | 09 1969 |
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| Description: | Piles of "La Voz Mexicana" (The Mexican Voice) newspapers at the Wautoma office of Obreros Unidos (United Workers). The headline says, "Hartford Contract i... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A crowd of migrant workers listening to speakers at an Obreros Unidos (United Workers) rally in front of the Wautoma Courthouse. The rally's purpose is to ... |
| Community: | Appleton |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| Historic Name: | St. Elizabeth Hospital |
| Reference Number: | 38891 |
| Community: | Salem |
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| County: | Kenosha |
| Historic Name: | Liberty Corners School District No. 8 |
| Reference Number: | 229100 |
| Community: | Appleton |
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| County: | Outagamie |
| Historic Name: | SAINT THERESE RECTORY |
| Reference Number: | 39469 |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A picketer pushing the wheelchair of another supporter of the United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO grape boycott. They are possibly picketing in front of a superma... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A sign on the roof of a car that says, "Grapes = Poverty" supporting the United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO grape boycott. The car is parked on a street in f... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a paisley dress is carrying a United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO sign in front of a Kroger store that reads, "Honor Picket Line/ National Cou... |
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