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Schlitz Train Celebrating End of Prohibition

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:...
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Placing Order for First Legal Beer

Date: 03 15 1933
Description: Donald Huseby, office manager of the Fauerbach Brewery, receiving from Herman Lochner, police reporter for the "Capital Times," an order for the first case...
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Crimean Conference

Date: 02 1945
Description: Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Joseph Stalin seated on the patio of Livadia Palace, Yalta, Crimea, Russia, ...
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Tom Hayden

Date: 1964
Description: Tom Hayden talking to two African-American women on house steps. The woman in the center is Terry Jefferson (as identified by Hayden).
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James Jerome Hill

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Description: Informal portrait of James J. Hill wearing a hat, gloves, and a coat. He is holding a cigar.
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Shirley Clarke on the Set of "The Cool World"

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Description: Shirley Clarke standing on the set of the film "The Cool World." She is standing in a rundown house or apartment and is wearing a scarf and coat and holdin...
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Relaxing on Frozen Lake Mendota

Date: 01 02 1979
Description: A young man is enjoying an Old Milwaukee beer while sitting in a broken armchair on frozen Lake Mendota.
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Portrait of Sid

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Sid smoking pipe.
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Christmas Card

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Description: Four-fold, copy art Christmas card made by Sid with two photographs of damaged commercial buildings after a fire. In one image, Sid stands on the slushy st...
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Break from the Hunt

Date: 10 1931
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...
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Portrait of a Hunter

Date: 1961
Description: A hunter posing on a stone wall with his shotgun and the grouse he bagged. He is wearing a billed cap, plaid coat, tough trousers and lace-up knee-high boo...
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Percy Marmont in "The Street of Forgotten Men"

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Description: Easy-Money Charley, played by Percy Marmont, has a look of consternation on his face in a scene from the 1925 film "The Street of Forgotten Men". He wears ...
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Percy Marmont in "The Street of Forgotten Men"

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Description: Percy Marmont, as Easy-Money Charlie in the 1925 film "The Street of Forgotten Men", standing on the street with a tray of items and a sign reading: "I AM ...

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