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Vel and Dale Phillips

Date: 06 04 1985
Description: Vel Phillips wearing striped shorts standing next to her son, Dale Phillips. They are standing in front of a doorway.
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Vel Phillips

Date: 1992
Description: Waist-up portrait of Vel Phillips in a white blouse posing outdoors next to a railing.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Phillips Fire Historic Marker

Date: 09 15 1957
Description: Mary Lynn Norton and Cathy Mess unveiling the Phillips Fire historical marker, while Avrid Bostrom and Alderman Victor Cress (seated) look on. Bostrom, a l...
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Birdwatching at Horicon Marsh

Date: 01 17 1980
Description: Group portrait at Horicon Marsh. Vel Phillips stands in the middle of the group wearing a coat and dark pants. The man on the far right is W. Dale Phillips...
Postcard

Colonel Elihu Phillips Home

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior of Colonel Elihu Phillips home, built in 1854.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Phillips Fire Historic Marker

Date: 12 09 1964
Description: Mrs. James Sima, a child when the Phillips Fire of 1894 raged, standing next to the historical marker documenting the horrific fire.
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Birdwatching at Horicon Marsh

Date: 01 17 1980
Description: Vel Phillips standing outdoors wearing a coat holding binoculars.
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Vel Phillips Marching with NAACP at Rally

Date: 11 1967
Description: Vel Phillips marching with the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council rally. She is wearing the organization's sweatshirt. Other unidentified people are marching wi...
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Vel Phillips Stands near Child Sitting on Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a brown and blue patterned dress is holding a bouquet of flowers. She stands near a young girl wearing a dress sitting on a pile of w...
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Vel Phillips Giving Child Flowers

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a brown and blue patterned dress is standing and holding a bouquet of flowers. A young girl sitting on a pile of watermelons holds a ...
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Vel Phillips and Child with Flowers

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips is in a brown and blue patterned dress standing and holding a bouquet of flowers up to a young girls' nose. The girl is holding a plaque in he...
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Lifting the Lindsay Street Sign

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay helping lift the Lindsay Street sign to be installed. Phillips is wearing a dress and is in front of Lindsay, who is weari...
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Concrete Sculpture

Date: 09 18 1961
Description: Close-up view of one of the many concrete sculptures in "Fred Smith's Concrete Museum."
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Vel Phillips with Man and Two Children

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a brown and blue patterned dress, is standing on the right holding a bouquet of flowers. A unidentified man is standing on the left, ...
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Vel Phillips Addressing Group

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: 6th Ward Milwaukee Alderman Vel Phillips is wearing a dress and standing on a podium. To the right are Bernice Lindsay and Reverend Lovell Johnson standing...
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Vel Phillips and News Media

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is on a podium wearing a dress. To the left are two members of the media holding recording equipment who are documenting the N Lindsay Street ...
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Dr. P. Phillips Company Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Two men load the back of a bed of an International Model C-35 truck with wooden crates full of citrus fruit, while Walter Phillips stands near the driver's...
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Flambeau Milling Company Plant

Date: 09 18 1961
Description: View from railroad tracks of the Flambeau Milling Company Plant.
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Phillips, Johnson, Lindsay

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Reverend Lovell Johnson is on the left wearing a coat. On the right is Bernice Lindsay who is wearing a hat and carrying a handbag and cane. In the middle ...
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Vel Phillips Introduces Bernice Lindsay

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is in a dress on a podium. She is next to Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. Behind them is Reverend Lovell Johnson, who is wea...

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