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Picket Line at Milwaukee City Hall

Date: 09 23 1946
Description: Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street a...
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UAW-CIO Local 75 Election

Date: 12 1946
Description: Members of the United Automobile Workers union, Local 75, line up outside the local's headquarters, 308 E. Center Street, to vote on delegates to the union...
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Railroad Car Ferry Workers

Date: 08 23 1946
Description: Crew of the railroad car ferry "City of Milwaukee" demonstrating for a 40-hour week and overtime pay. The "City of Milwaukee" ferried Grand Trunk Western ...
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Italian Woman Preparing Sarsa

Date: 1941
Description: Loretta Falci (Lorenzina Fiocco Falci), an Italian woman, preparing sarsa, tomato paste on boards on the porch of her home, 622 Milton Street, as she holds...
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Picketers in Favor of Continued Price Controls

Date: 07 19 1946
Description: Young demonstrators at the CIO's "Don't Buy a Depression" rally.
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Dairy Cooperative Supports Packinghouse Workers Strike

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: A driver for Dairy Distributors, Inc. cooperative of Watertown, Wisconsin delivering milk to strikers' soup kitchen.

"Several dairies have volunteered to...

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Stocking the Strike Kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Workers stocking the strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Fred Koratko, Corneli...
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Otto's Tavern

Date: 08 25 1946
Description: Exterior view from across the street of Otto's Tavern.
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Wisconsin Landscape

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Description: A Wisconsin landscape with a road in the foreground.
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Group Gathered around Automobile

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Description: Group of people standing near a car.
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View of Bluffs

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Description: View of bluffs between 1940 and 1946.
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Our Cottage

Date: 1910
Description: A family sits on a porch of a two-story cedar shake house with Lake Superior in background.
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Capt. Angus Sailboat

Date: 1910
Description: Gaff-rigged schooner the "Lizzie W." on Lake Superior just off from the mission dock on Madeline Island.
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Mission Landing

Date: 1910
Description: Steamboat "Skater" and two sailboats at end of the mission dock on Madeline Island.
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Capt. Angus Cottage

Date: 1910
Description: Log house with cedar shake roof.
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Fish Nets

Date: 1910
Description: Children standing in front of fish nets drying on net reels.
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Luncheon on Wilson's Island

Date: 1910
Description: Two women and a man sitting on the shore of Lake Superior, resting against a tree stump and boulders. One woman is reading, with a picnic basket at her sid...
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Johnstown Center Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view from yard of the Johnstown Center Tavern. A dance hall extends the full length of the second-story.
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Primitive Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1942
Description: Cornish Primitive Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Red Cross Blood Bank Donors

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Group of 67 people from Viola, Wisconsin, who came by bus to donate blood to the American Red Cross Blood Bank.

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