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Photographers Learn How to Shoot a Crime Scene

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Description: Elevated view of photographers being instructed on how to shoot a crime scene. A teacher is demonstrating photographic techniques while a group of students...
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Northwest Airlines Pickets

Date: 07 09 1970
Description: Picket line of striking Northwest Airlines ticket agents and office workers who were represented by the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks.
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Quitting Time

Date: 08 25 1967
Description: Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure.
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Meat Packing

Date: 08 30 1965
Description: Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper.
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Men's Fashions

Date: 12 18 1966
Description: A man models what was touted as the latest styles for men.
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Self-Service Supermarket

Date: 1953
Description: A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market.
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Country Boy and City Boy

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Description: The country meets the city as a "Milwaukee Journal" newsboy admires the calf entered in the animal judging competition by a young boy from the country.
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Maynard Meyer Office Building

Date: 1958
Description: Elevated view of building facade, which has a light-colored wall pierced with holes, designed by Maynard Meyer, architect. On the right is a restaurant, th...
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Checking the Oil

Date: 1956
Description: Woman in polka dot dress is looking on as a service station worker checks the oil in her car.
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Railroad Yard at Allis-Chalmers

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view of Allis-Chalmers plant showing several trains on the tracks next to a large industrial building. The steam engine tender in front of the loc...
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Man Holding Slipover Bowling Shoe

Date: 04 10 1945
Description: A man, possibly inventor Leo Kay, holding a slipover bowling shoe, which attaches to a regular street shoe.
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Hairstylist

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Description: A hairstylist applying hair color to a woman's hair.
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Joe E. Brown

Date: 07 12 1955
Description: Comedic actor Joe E. Brown holding a baseball, with an unidentified man standing behind him..
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Swear In To Vote Day

Date: 01 15 1980
Description: "New Voters — It was "Swear In to Vote Day' at Pulaski High School. Students who have reached 18 were sworn in as voters during a ceremony at the school, a...
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Vulcan Materials Company Officials

Date: 07 26 1968
Description: Two men are looking at large papers. One of the men has a pipe in his mouth, and the other is wearing eyeglasses and is smiling and pointing to the sheet o...

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