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| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 12 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Vel Phillips sitting and posing for a fashion shoot. She is wearing a dark outfit with a fur-lined coat. She has a handbag on her right arm and... |
| Date: | 12 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Vel Phillips sitting and posing. She is wearing a coat over a dress and matching headscarf, and is holding sunglasses in her hand. |
| Date: | 12 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a dark dress with matching elbow-length gloves and earrings. She is holding a light-colored clutch handbag. In... |
| Date: | 12 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a dark dress. She is also wearing earrings and elbow length gloves, and is holding a fur coat in her left hand... |
| Date: | 12 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a strapless dress with a flower detail in the center. She is wearing heels and has a satin coat draped over he... |
| Date: | 12 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a strapless dress with a flower detail in the middle. She is also wearing a satin coat and earrings. |
| Date: | 12 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips wearing a light-colored dress. She is wearing a white glove on her right hand and has bracelets on her left wrist. She is looking in a mirror.... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a suit and skirt, and holding a pair of gloves in her left hand. She is walking outside on grass with trees in... |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips sitting next to Coretta Scott King. Vel is wearing two button pins on her lapel. Coretta is holding in her lap the book "My Life with Martin L... |
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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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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Vel Phillips holding a telephone. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of UW-Madison Professor Richard Davis playing the bass. |
| Date: | 11 1963 |
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| Description: | John R. Salter, Jr. and Ella Josephine Baker confer at a civil rights speaking trip through the Southwest and Midwest. They're looking at ticker tape. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Solomon Freeman wearing a suit and sitting in a chair. Solomon Freeman was a slave purchased by Abraham Bush as a boy. The Bush family moved to... |
| Date: | 01 11 1982 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of E. Gordon Young, an attorney and civil rights activist who became the state's first black assistant attorney general in 1965. At... |
| Date: | 05 26 1958 |
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| Description: | A boy in a Boy Scouts uniform for Milwaukee County Council 406 is sitting on a camp stool and peeling carrots. Caption reads: "Peeling carrots was unexciti... |
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