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| Date: | 10 02 1960 |
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| Description: | A woman is holding the handle of an unidentified gardening tool and posing in her yard. Caption reads: "Winning one of six plaques for yard beautification ... |
| Date: | 01 15 1987 |
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| Description: | View looking out window at a man who is washing the window. Caption reads: "Edgar Gordon spreads cleanliness and happiness." Edgar William Gordon was a ... |
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| Description: | A line of children and one woman are leaning against a fence to look at an elephant at the Milwaukee Zoo. |
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| Description: | A group of children are leaning on a railing watching the seals playing on a pile of rocks at the zoo. |
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| Description: | A group of children are leaning on a railing to look at an elephant at the Milwaukee Zoo. |
| Date: | 11 14 1964 |
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| Description: | A young man on the left is talking and gesturing to an older man on the right who is partially turned away towards an automobile in the background. Caption... |
| Date: | 11 14 1964 |
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| Description: | A boy is looking at a person in the foreground, who is out of focus. Another object — possibly a microphone stand — is also in the foreground and out of fo... |
| Date: | 10 23 1985 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 05 20 1989 |
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| Description: | Two young men stand together. One is holding a sign that is barely visible. Next to him is another sign that reads "Come and help STOP the VIOLENCE". Capti... |
| Date: | 10 01 1977 |
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| Description: | Several African-American teenagers are standing outside a building, some wearing coats and some under umbrellas. A sign reads: "Fight for the Right." Capti... |
| Date: | 07 24 1983 |
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| Description: | Close-up of two people holding hands, one white and one black. Caption reads: "Black-white couples say that racial difference is no big deal for them, but ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Inside pages with articles and photographs from the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel. |
| Date: | 12 24 1966 |
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| Description: | Followed by father James Groppi, their advisor, four members of the Milwaukee Youth Council of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), are walk... |
| Date: | 07 05 1989 |
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| Description: | A man with a backpack-powered leaf blower is blowing trash along the ground between picnic tables. Another man with a similar blower is in the background. ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1983 |
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| Description: | A man is using a hose to wash a street. Behind him, a man is driving by in a car. A sign for Doc's Coin Mart is on the building behind the car. Caption rea... |
| Date: | 07 05 1989 |
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| Description: | A boy is posing wearing a hat. Behind him is a star-shaped balloon with an American flag pattern. Caption reads: "Raymond Taylor, 8, waited for the judging... |
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