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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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Vel Phillips Addressing Crowd

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is at a podium speaking to a crowd of people, some of whom are standing behind a street barricade. She is wearing a dress. In the bottom right...
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Vel Phillips Receiving an Honorary Poem

Date: 01 03 1978
Description: Liesl Blockstein of the Wisconsin Women's Political Caucus presenting guest-of honor, Vel Phillips, with an honorary poem at a reception at the L'Etoile Re...
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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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Vel Phillips with People and Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ...
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Lovell Johnson Addresses Group

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Reverend Lovell Johnson of St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church is on a podium in a coat and hat. On her right are Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay...
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Installing Lindsay Street Sign

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is wearing a colorful dress. On the right is Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. Both are looking at a worker who is installing ...
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Bernice Lindsay Approaching Podium

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is behind the podium in a dress. She is reaching out her hand for Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. An unidentified person is ...
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Martin Schreiber Addressing Group

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Alderman Martin E. Schreiber, President of the Milwaukee Common Council, is on a podium wearing a suit. On the left is Vel Phillips who is wearing a dress....
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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 at Lawn and Garden Contest

Date: 1957
Description: Two women and a man are standing together with a caption that identifies them as "Vel Phillip[s], Bernard Toliver, and Mrs. Moore — 1st prize, Lawn and Gar...
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Presenting the Key

Date: 08 20 1964
Description: View of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Washington, standing on the sidewalk in the foreground with their backs to the camera, who were the first tenants of the Lapham P...
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Creative Center Workshop Group Portrait

Date: 03 30 1973
Description: Group portrait at the Mary Church Terrell Creative Center, which was founded in 1963 by Bernice Lindsay (second from left). The Creative Center was located...
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Eydie V. Watts

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commission. She is wearing a dark dress or blouse and a necklace and ...
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Eydie V. Watts

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Description: Photograph of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commission. Ms. Watts sits on a chair with her hands clasped. She is wearing a str...
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Dr. Joseph Carpenter and Family

Date: 1973
Description: Dr. Joseph Carpenter, assistant professor of Afro-American Education & Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is seated with his family. His ...
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Martin Schreiber Addressing Crowd

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: President of the Milwaukee Common Council Martin E. Schreiber is at the podium. He is wearing a suit and glasses. On the left is Bernice Lindsay who is wea...
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Freedom Fund Dinner Committee

Date: 1962
Description: The NAACP Milwaukee Branch's Freedom Fund Dinner Committee. The Freedom Fund Dinner is an annual NAACP fundraising event and awards ceremony for the organi...
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Junior Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary

Date: 12 07 1957
Description: Group portrait of four of the five Wisconsin women given Carol Awards for outstanding civic and community service by the Junior Chamber of Commerce auxilia...

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