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| Date: | 03 14 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the story of "Madison's hippie haunts" in Insight Magazine and the Milwaukee Journal. Features a street view of West Miffl... |
| Date: | 07 26 1972 |
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| Description: | Individual crouches on the sidewalk against a brick wall in front of the Rennebohms at Lake and State Streets (now Walgreens) hawking Take Over news... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across Lake Street towards the Lake Street Station. Signs and posters line the porch, including one advertising rooms for rent. One sign on the far ri... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across North Henry Street towards several buildings at the corner of State Street. From left to right is a private residence, Red & White Hamburgers, ... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across North Frances Street towards the Town/Campus Motel, which is at the corner of State Street (out of view on the left). Cars and bicycles are par... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across North Frances Street towards the Town/Campus Motel, which is at the corner of State Street on the left. Rupert Cornelius Co. has a show window,... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across West Gilman Street, on the corner of State Street, towards Bigsby & Kruthers. Clothing is on display in the windows, as well as a sign advertis... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across Wisconsin Avenue, on the corner of West Dayton, towards the construction of the Madison Hilton Convention Hotel. A sign on the left advertises ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two students are standing behind a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two students stand next to a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. Below their feet is a concrete retaining wall with racist graffiti spray painte... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man leaning against a street sign near the corner of a fence enclosing the yard of a housing project. On the right is a concre... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Racist graffiti spray painted on the wall of a South Boston housing project. It reads: "We HATE Niggers." This image was captured during the unrest followi... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Two girls are rolling about in the street on small, foot-powered, six-wheeled ATV toys, and a man is standing on the corner next to a building with a billb... |
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