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Crippled Children Fire Drill

Date: 11 28 1932
Description: Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a...
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School Kids Leaving Home for School

Date: 09 05 1931
Description: Two school kids on the sidewalk leaving home for school.
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Virginia Gillette Spanking Dicky Dupois

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,...
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Two Boys Sitting in a Tree

Date: 07 26 1930
Description: Rolland Anders, 15, 3205 Milwaukee Street, and Roy Dennis, 14, 26 Bryan Street, sitting in a tree at the corner of Bryan and Thorp Street hoping to break t...
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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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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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Two Children Outside Broken Building

Date: 1955
Description: Two children in winter coats and boots posing outside a building. Bricks are scattered on the ground behind them, and the building has cracked windows.

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