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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 11 24 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette delivers a special message on welfare relief to a special session of the legislature in the assembly chamber of the Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An entirely closed court in a tenement district. Two children are in a doorway. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Dane County Poorhouse. |
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| Description: | An African American woman with two children on the porch of a house on Johns Island. |
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| Description: | Unemployed men on a street with the word "Unemployment" collaged above. Part of a series of Highlander collages from the film center. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Film still of a frail woman holding a baby, who were neighbors of Highlander Folk School. Promotional material accompanying the film, "People of Cumberland... |
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| Description: | An African American family standing on the porch of their home, behind a wooden picket fence. |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Group of people line up for Hunger Task Force delivery. |
| Date: | 2003 |
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| Description: | A homeless man holding a cardboard sign that reads "HOMELESS HUNGRY ANY Thing HELPS GOD BLESS" on Rose Street intersection. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A dog stands near a water hydrant on one side and a fence on the other. The North Wall Street neighborhood houses 37 families in 22 buildings, with 30 hy... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman and four children sing in front of a makeshift tent that is used as their home. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman and four children seated in front of a makeshift tent that serves as their home. There is a washtub and washboard in the foreground and laundry hangs... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left. |
| Date: | 11 17 1961 |
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| Description: | Newburgh, N.Y. City Manager Joseph Mitchell, pictured here, gave a talk to University of Wisconsin Conservation Club about reducing federal and state welfa... |
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