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Church Skit

Date: 06 26 1963
Description: Hope United Church of Christ members are putting on a skit of the "roaring twenties."
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Woman Doing Laundry Outdoors

Date: 07 07 1963
Description: Jehovah's Witnesses assembly camper doing laundry.
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Department Store

Date: 11 30 1966
Description: Sears Roebuck department store interior.
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Bowling

Date: 02 13 1969
Description: The Wonder Bread team, an all-female bowling team getting ready to compete.
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Mah Jongg Game

Date: 05 14 1958
Description: Four women playing Mah Jongg, a Chinese game using tiles.
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Mitchell Airport Farewell

Date: 06 1963
Description: Children, adults, and a Northwest Airlines Boeing 707 jetliner on the tarmac at General Mitchell International Airport. The children, all first graders fro...
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Strike!

Date: 02 20 1963
Description: Union members of Local 317 in Milwaukee strike outside the Electric Co.'s N. Edison Street plant. It was a very cold night.
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Newborn

Date: 03 18 1963
Description: Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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Polio Shot Time

Date: 11 15 1955
Description: All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations.
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Election Booths and Volunteers

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Description: Elevated view of a gymnasium that has been converted into a place where citizens can vote on election day.
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Harold Stassen for President

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Description: Republican Harold Stassen giving a speech on a stage in Milwaukee during his campaign for the Republican nomination.
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Buy Bonds!

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Description: Display that advertises the sale of U.S. Savings Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan or the Bond-a-Month-Plan. Wisconsin State Governor Walter J. Kohler...
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Kids on Roller Skates

Date: 06 26 1986
Description: Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk.
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Car Wreck

Date: 05 17 1956
Description: Aftermath of automobile accident. The cars plunged 17 feet over an embankment. Both drivers walked away from the crash. Onlookers look down from the embank...
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Mailman

Date: 07 11 1981
Description: A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood.
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Post Office

Date: 01 13 1968
Description: Post Office workers in mail room.
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Postal Employees Demand Higher Wages

Date: 08 1919
Description: View down long line of workers from the United States Postal Service demonstrating for an increase in salary to meet war-time cost of living increases.
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IHC Portable Engine on Flatcar

Date: 04 12 1911
Description: View of a new IHC Titan (?Mogul Tractor) tank-cooled portable engine loaded onto a flatcar for shipment from IHC's Milwaukee Works, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. S...
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Monster Truck

Date: 01 23 1989
Description: A man cowers in mock awe before Kodiak, a 14,000 pound Ford Silverado rigged with six-foot-tall tires and an extra heavy-duty suspension. The truck compet...
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Railyard Worker on Tractor outside Miller Brewing Co.

Date: 12 26 1935
Description: Worker on an International I-30 industrial tractor used for "spotting" freight cars around the Miller Brewing Company. Two refrigerated rail cars are parke...

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