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Fredric March

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Description: Fredric March (seated) with Florence Eldridge (Mrs. March) and the noted news analyst Cecil Brown.
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Mr. and Mrs. Fredric March

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Description: Informal portrait of the actor Fredric March and his wife, Florence Eldridge. March, whose real name was Ernest Frederick Bickel, was born in Racine, Wisco...
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Daisy Bates in a Welcoming Party

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Description: Daisy Bates as part of a welcoming party at an airport. From left to right are: Edward L. Cooper, executive secretary of the Boston NAACP, Kivie Kaplan, Na...
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Lewis Arms and his Pontiac

Date: 09 1954
Description: Lewis Arms, dressed in a suit and sunglasses, sits on the hood of his 1949 Pontiac automobile.
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Beauty Queen with Cranberries

Date: 1965
Description: An unidentified beauty queen wearing a crown, along with three men, pose with harvested cranberries in a cranberry marsh.
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Christmas Tree from Wisconsin

Date: 1983
Description: Congressman David R. Obey (standing below the C) greets a delegation from Wisconsin that accompanied the official Capitol Christmas Tree cut in the Chequam...
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Wisconsin Democrats

Date: 1984
Description: The audience at the Lincoln County fairgrounds who gathered to hear Democratic candidates Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, with the national media cov...
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Frame 64: The Three Women Set Off to Washington

Date: 1964
Description: Annie Devine, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Victoria Gray, fellow MFDP candidates. All three women are wearing hats and carrying handbags. A crowd of people are be...
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Group of People Outdoors

Date: 1966
Description: A large group of people gathered outdoors on a lawn at a primary election for the LCFO (Lowndes County Freedom Organization). There are buildings in the ba...
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Beck's Sugarbush

Date: 1986
Description: Shirley and Alphonse Beck are dwarfed by this large Red Oak in Beck's Woods along North Pole Road, near the Theresa Station. The tree measures 12 feet in c...
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Wilbur J. Cohen Speaking at Event

Date: 1965
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen is speaking from a podium at an outdoor event celebrating the Social Security amendment adding Medicare.
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Cassville Trip

Date: 10 18 1962
Description: Seven men are posing outdoors for a snapshot: from right to left: Mink, Gustaveson, Nelson, Bently, Williams, Carpenter, Harrington.
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Cassville Trip

Date: 10 18 1962
Description: Seven men posing outdoors in front of automobiles. Left to right: Carpenter, Harrington, Williams, Bently?, Nelson, Gustaveson, Mink.
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Outside the Martinique Hotel

Date: 1950
Description: View from sidewalk of a man wearing sunglasses standing outside the entrance to the Hotel Martinique. He holds a cigarette in one hand and a camera bag in ...
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Vel Phillips and News Media

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips is on a podium wearing a dress. To the left are two members of the media holding recording equipment who are documenting the N Lindsay Street ...
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Brooks McCormick

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Description: Brooks McCormick walking with two men near a building with a sign that reads, in part: "Przemysl Motoryzacyun." The location may be in Poland.
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Mears Family

Date: 1906
Description: Five people posing in an automobile parked in front of a large frame house. The house is identified as the birthplace of Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears (1830-1...
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Ojibwa Wedding

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Description: A large, outdoor, group wedding portrait of group of people posing on a lawn. [name of family to come] The bride is sitting in the center on the ground, wi...
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"Veterans for Trump" Sign

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: An elderly man in a suit is holding a sign reading: "Veterans for Trump, Make America Great Again!" Other men and women are standomg around him waiting to ...
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Patriotic Observance

Date: 07 1978
Description: A crowd of people gather for Flag Day on Wilson Street. Many have their hands on their hearts.

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