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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi... |
| Date: | 02 13 1915 |
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| Description: | African-American man and woman on the front porch of a rural home. The unidentified woman is retrieving water from a well, and the man, J.R. Dean, is sitti... |
| Date: | 12 19 1936 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr... |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | On the left, Jakob Ottesen is holding a long-stemmed pipe, and behind him a ladder is leaning against a tree. At his feet, a large dog is stretched out. Th... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Twenty-eight people and one dog are posed in the yard of a wood frame house. A lap dog is sitting on a chair balanced on top of a fence post. A woman at th... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Oscar (Boney) Halverson smoking a cigar on the front porch of a house. He is wearing a shirt with collar, bow tie, suspenders, and high, laced boots, and ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of... |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaks on the front porch of Highlander School. The woman seated behind Ms. Roosevelt is May Justus, who, with her partner Vera McCampbel... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with... |
| Date: | 06 22 1945 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women listening to a speaker at the Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Il... |
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| Description: | "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
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| Description: | An African American woman with two children on the porch of a house on Johns Island. |
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| Description: | An African American family standing on the porch of their home, behind a wooden picket fence. |
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| Description: | A small African American child walking towards a door where a woman is holding her hand out. There is a SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) po... |
| Date: | 07 30 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the University of Wisconsin Music Clinic Faculty held each summer for Wisconsin high school student musicians. Left to right: Peter Wilho... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | House built by Benjamin Church in 1844. Restored, it stands in Estabrook Park. Two men near front porch, from left to right: Frederic Heath, President of... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Group standing in front of the SCEF (Southern Conference Education Fund) headquarters. The group includes Anne Braden in the blue jacket, and Carl Braden ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette standing and holding a pipe. Philip La Follette stands in the background in the shadows. |
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