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Southern Wisconsin Anti-Pollution Federation

Date: 05 12 1948
Description: Group portrait of fifteen members of the Southern Wisconsin Anti-Pollution Federation, sponsors of an anti-pollution meeting to prohibit dumping of sewage ...
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Anti-Lake Pollution Mass Meeting

Date: 05 12 1948
Description: Elevated view of members of the audience attending a meeting sponsored by the newly incorporated Southern Wisconsin Anti-Pollution Federation. The meeting ...
Drawing

Composite View with Church

Date: 08 1885
Description: Pencil on paper; center image of church surrounded by six miniature drawings including one residence, one mill, one horse and carriage from rear, and three...
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Jewish Relief Shipment

Date: 07 08 1948
Description: View from road of large stacks of boxes containing food and clothing on the lawn of Congregation Adas Jeshurun temple at the corner of Mound and Murray Str...
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Otto Falk House

Date: 1964
Description: Exterior of building just prior to demolition. At the time, the building was occupied by the Milwaukee County Historical Society. Three and one-half story...
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Groppi Protesting Eagles Club

Date: 03 1966
Description: Father James Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council demonstrating outside the Eagles Club at night beneath a marquee advertising a Duke Ellington performance.
Postcard

Millioki Club

Date: 1910
Description: View from road toward a large building on a small hill above a road. Three posts are along the road, and small rails line the the sidewalk near a small dri...
Photograph

Milwaukee Club

Date: 1889
Description: Corner of 706 North Jefferson Street; from a booklet of collotype views published by the photographer. The building has a turret with a rounded roof. At th...
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Madison Business Association Members

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Louis Heindel (left), Madison Business Association president, presented plaques to Edwin J. Connor, Emery Oliver, and Louis Hirsig in recognition of outsta...
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Ham Radio Operator

Date: 08 19 1948
Description: Ross Hansch, 1608 Hoyt Street, Ham Radio Operator (W9RBI), Wisconsin's first member of the DX Century Club. The club is limited to amateur radio operators ...
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Poster for the LOFT Youth Center

Date: 08 18 1948
Description: A young woman and a young man with a poster announcing the '48-'49 opening of the LOFT on September 18, with Don Voegeli's 15 piece orchestra.
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Staughton Lynd at an Anti-War Demonstration

Date: 03 26 1966
Description: Standing near the Lincoln Statue on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Historian Staughton Lynd speaks to a nighttime, anti-war demonstrat...
Photograph

"Roundy" Coughlin

Date: 09 08 1948
Description: Joseph L. "Roundy" Coughlin shown wearing a large Spanish hat as the auctioneer at the West Side Business Men's Association auction to benefit the building...
Photograph

West Side Business Men's Association Auction

Date: 09 12 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm standing at the podium before a crowd as he auctions off an article at the West Side Business Men's Association auction on Odana R...
Photograph

Women of the Royal Neighbors of America

Date: 09 15 1948
Description: Women who attended the deputy school conducted by the Royal Neighbors of America at the Hotel Loraine. Officers seated in the front row are, left to right,...
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club Officers

Date: 09 29 1949
Description: Officers of the University of Wisconsin Dames club for 1948. Seated from left to right are: Mrs. L.R. White; Mrs. Marvin D. Whitehead; Standing from left...
Photograph

SCEF Speakers Bureau

Date: 1971
Description: Civil rights and anti-war activists Carl Braden and Virginia Collins being interviewed during a speaking tour sponsored by the Southern Conference Educatio...
Photograph

Fred Shuttlesworth

Date: 02 03 1964
Description: The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth speaks to the 1964 annual meeting of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) after being elected president of the organ...
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Eddie Carthan Victory Party

Date: 1982
Description: Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi...
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University League Dance Committee

Date: 11 06 1948
Description: The Junior Division of the University League, spouses of University of Wisconsin faculty, committee for arrangements for a dance at the Maple Bluff County ...

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