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Kunzelmann-Esser Co. Building

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Description: The Kunzelmann-Esser Furniture Co. building at S. 9th and W. Mitchell Streets.
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Three Teenagers Playing on Sidewalk

Date: 02 28 1987
Description: Stephanie Johnson (from left), 16, Chanell Biami, 15, and Letesa Evans, 16, played a childhood game Friday after seeing their little sisters playing a rope...
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Vel Phillips at Bat

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Description: Vel Phillips grips the bat and ducks as the ball is pitched at a baseball game. The catcher is on the right. Chain link fencing, a bicycle and a residentia...
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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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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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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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Bernice Lindsay Addresses Crowd

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Bernice Lindsay is on a podium. She is wearing a coat and a hat. A man is filming her speech. On the ground is the street sign in her honor. Part of the N ...
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Vel Phillips Pitching a Baseball

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Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a baseball glove, hat and a sweatshirt that reads "Milwaukee Commando NAACP Youth Council" pitching a baseball. In the background sta...
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Vang Brothers

Date: 1986
Description: Four brothers posing in and next to a shopping cart. Caption reads: "Bee Vang ended up in the lower berth, and his brothers, Sam and John, rode on top as a...
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Phillip Moreland

Date: 10 23 1985
Description: A man us sitting on concrete steps, and is wearing a beret, eyeglasses, and a sweater. Caption reads: "Phillip Moreland, a Milwaukee longshoreman idled by ...
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Tree of Life

Date: 09 06 1977
Description: Mural on the side of a building, depicting hands of different colors grasping a tree. The tree has many faces at its base and various scenes on its leaves....
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Independence Day

Date: 06 1968
Description: An older gentleman with a handlebar mustache is handing out American flags to Cub Scouts. Several Scouts are drinking bottles of soda pop.
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Saturday Chore

Date: 1977
Description: View down hill towards a man washing his car in the alley of a neighborhood. Rooftops are in the background.

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