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| Date: | 06 22 1978 |
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| Description: | A boy enjoying an amusement ride on swings at the East Side Businessmen's Club carnival at Milwaukee Street and Fair Oaks Avenue. Other riders, carnival-go... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Students in Future Farmers of America learning in a field. Original caption reads: "E.W. Gills, F.F.A. advisor (in white duster) explaining proper lubricat... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 11 17 1977 |
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| Description: | Wesley Scott, executive director of the Milwaukee Urban League, is standing with his right hand on his chest. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Reverend Olympia Brown Willis, of Racine. She was the first president of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association. |
| Date: | 05 22 1962 |
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| Description: | One woman is handing folded linens to another woman while they are standing in a large closet. Caption reads: "The linen closet received a thorough going o... |
| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and bow tie is standing at a podium, speaking and gesturing with his hands. A lectern scarf is draped over the podium with the word "P... |
| Date: | 03 13 1955 |
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| Description: | A woman is sitting and smiling, and wearing a crown. She is holding an opened package, and next to her is a bag advertising Coca-Cola. Caption reads: "'... |
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| Description: | Julie Harris, Boris Karloff, Kermit Bloomgarden and his wife Virginia Kaye are standing near a table at the Thespian Theatre Club Award dinner. Harris and ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Walter Vail Johnston, left, posing with an unidentified woman and man near the grandstand at the Milwaukee Hunt Club Horse Show. The men are wearing suits ... |
| Date: | 10 1931 |
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| Description: | John Clarence Cudahy, left, and Walter Vail Johnston are resting against a split rail fence during the Washington County Fox Hunt. Both were members of the... |
| Date: | 06 05 1956 |
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| Description: | A woman is modeling a dress with a shawl and a train. Behind her women are sitting at tables watching her go by. Caption reads: A dress worn by actress ... |
| Date: | 03 27 1958 |
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| Description: | Three women are standing together, with two of them wearing dresses and one woman wearing a blouse and skirt. Two of the women are looking at the third, wh... |
| Date: | 01 24 1958 |
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| Description: | A man is posing in a leather fringed costume and fur cap, with what appears to be a fake beard. He is holding two dead animals up in his right hand. Two ot... |
| Date: | 03 23 1979 |
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| Description: | Two women are posing in the foreground. In the background is a woman modeling clothing while standing on a stage. Caption reads: "FASHION'S OUTLOOK for spr... |
| Date: | 10 16 1982 |
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| Description: | View through a doorway towrads three women sitting and standing at a table. A child and other people are sitting nearby. Caption reads: "Miss Barbara Ch... |
| Date: | 05 1968 |
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| Description: | A Boy Scout or Scout Leader, with "Madison Wis 101" on his shoulder patch, making pancakes in a skillet over an open fire. Beside the skillet is a coffee p... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Snowmobiles and drivers lining up before the start of a United States Snowmobile Association sanctioned race. Miller Brewing was a sponsor for the event. |
| Date: | 05 26 1969 |
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| Description: | Cub Scouts marching in a Memorial Day parade. Two scouts are holding flags, and spectators are in the background. |
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