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Mary Alice Martinez in Picket Line

Date: 1969
Description: Mary Alice Martinez from Appleton is picketing to boycott grapes. She is carrying two signs. On the right, "Boycott Grapes in Neenah and everywhere." On th...
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Office

Date: 10 05 1921
Description: Interior of the company president's office. President Martin P. Winther and a female worker are seated at desks.
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Students listening to Rev. Claude Williams teaching "Religion in Contemporary Society." The blackboard says "Gospel of the Kingdom: The Gospel to the Poor,...
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Jesus Salas at Industrial Commission Hearing

Date: 1966
Description: Jesus Salas, seated at left, is with workers at one of six Industrial Hearings in Wisconsin. The Waushara County Courthouse hearing discussed the issue of...
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Red Cross Worker with Two Clients

Date: 02 12 1945
Description: Volunteer Mrs. F.F. (Louise) Bowman, Jr., sitting at the information desk at Dane County Red Cross Headquarters, 315 North Carroll Street, is assisting Tec...
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On Strike at Jones-Chambliss

Date: 02 1949
Description: An unidentified striking member of the United Packinghouse Workers of America at the Jones-Chambliss company. This photograph appeared in the Packinghouse ...
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Red Crescent Worker Examines Patient

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) examining a young girl's teeth. The girl is wearing a patterned shawl and is reaching for the man's hat. Th...
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Jessie Jack Hooper

Date: 1890
Description: Cabinet card of an informal full-length portrait. (Mrs. Ben) Jessie Jack Hooper relaxes in a chair. The portrait may have been taken at the Sawyer House in...
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Mendota Hospital Centennial Event

Date: 07 16 1960
Description: Several participants tell the early history of Mendota State Hospital at the centennial pageant. They are, left to right: Cecilia Shedleski, a nurse at the...
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School Bond Referendum

Date: 03 23 1965
Description: Members of Madison's Parent-Teacher Associations are attempting to win favor for the $6,450,000 school bond referendum by distributing booklets citing fact...
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Farm Worker Gives Oath

Date: 1967
Description: Jesus Salas, center, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of ...
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Daycare Worker Reading to Children

Date: 03 08 1944
Description: Martha Hardin reading to Janet Brahn and Betty Thomsen at the nursery school established on the third floor of the home of University president, Charles A....
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Worker on Carpet Loom

Date: 1970
Description: A woman is working on a tufting carpet loom. She is leaning into the loom which has a large number of individual strands of yarn on top, and gray material,...
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Travelers' Aid Helps Young Man

Date: 04 1960
Description: When this young man arrived in Madison for a spring vacation visit and no one met him at the bus station, Travelers' Aid stepped in to help. Travelers' Aid...
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Mrs. Martha O'Malley with Son David O'Malley

Date: 01 02 1959
Description: Mrs. Helen O'Malley (83), Waunakee, discusses attending the Governor's Inaugural Ball at the State Capitol with her son, David. Mrs. O'Malley, a dedicated ...
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Refugees in a Food Warehouse at a D.P. Camp

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Description: Refugees stand behind supplies in a food warehouse at a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors...
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William Evans of Fall River Canning Company

Date: 1969
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...

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Transporting Migrant Workers

Date: 1970
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...

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Salvador Sanchez Addressing Workers

Date: 1967
Description: Standing on the hood of the car in a striped short-sleeved shirt and sunglasses is Salvador Sanchez, an organizer for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Wi...
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Easter Seal Volunteer Workers

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: Vocational school students and Easter Seal Workers stuffing envelopes for the Easter Seal campaign for mailing to Madison residents. Pictured left to right...

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