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Wiley Branton and Thurgood Marshall

Date: 1957
Description: Wiley Branton (left), the Little Rock NAACP attorney, and Thurgood Marshall, the special counsel of the NAACP, at the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on the ...
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Peter Engelmann, Naturalist

Date: 1867
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Peter Engelmann (1823-1874), Wisconsin educator and naturalist. Engelman founded the German-English Academy in Milwau...
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John Lewis Russell, Botanist

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of John L. Russell (1808-1873), Botanist. From 1831-1854, Russell served as a Unitarian minister in a number of cities. Served as...
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Samuel Foster Haven, Anthropologist

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Foster Haven (1806-1881), Massachusetts anthropologist, librarian, and archaeologist. Haven is best known as t...
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John Tyndall, Philosopher

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of John Tyndall (1820-1893), Irish natural philosopher. Tyndall was one of the leading figures in Victorian science and a member o...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Group portrait of the Attic Angel Association meeting at the Visiting Nurse Service headquarters, 418 West Mifflin Street. Left to right: Mrs. Walter A. (D...
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Madison Labor Co-op Committee

Date: 09 15 1947
Description: Members of the Madison Labor Co-op committee are shown at a meeting at the new East side co-op grocery store, 3055 East Washington Avenue, which will have ...
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: A man is smoking at a desk at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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Madison Jaycettes

Date: 01 28 1948
Description: Members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce auxiliary, "Jaycettes," addressing 3000 letters to be mailed to Dane County residents as part of a fund ...
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Men at Community Union Dinner

Date: 01 23 1948
Description: Madison Community Union annual dinner meeting at the Park Hotel. Attending are: left to right, Chief Justice Marvin Rosenberry, Lowell Frautschi, Dr. H.C. ...
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Roundy Coughlin and Children

Date: 01 31 1948
Description: Roundy Coughlin, sports columnist for the Wisconsin State Journal, accepting a check from four children for his Fun Fund. Pictured left to right: Ke...
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Marvin B. Rosenberry and Cub Scouts

Date: 02 12 1948
Description: Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry receiving a birthday cake from two Boy Scouts of the Four Lakes council in Lincoln Day ceremoni...
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National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

Date: 02 19 1948
Description: Dr. Clair Turner, Assistant to the president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, is shown at the left as he conferred in Madison with a gro...
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Officers of the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers Organization

Date: 02 22 1948
Description: Five officers of the Dane County Rural Letter Carriers organization at their annual meeting.
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Harry M. Hanson and James R. Law

Date: 03 01 1948
Description: Harry M. Hanson, Dane County superintendent of schools, eastern district (left), is shown as he turned over $1,075.50 to Mayor James R. Law, Dane County Ma...
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Bernice Williams with Sewing Machine

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Description: Bernice Williams working with a younger CIO member on a sewing machine at the South Carolina Citizenship group.
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East Side Youth Activities Council Members

Date: 04 22 1948
Description: Nine members of the Madison East Side Youth Activities Council taking the oath of office being administered by Dane County Judge Fred M. Evans at the East ...
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Daisy Bates and NAACP Lawyer Robert Carter

Date: 12 03 1957
Description: Daisy Bates confers with NAACP lawyer Robert Carter, after she was fined $100 and court costs of $150 for failure to open confidential NAACP financial and ...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Committee

Date: 06 16 1948
Description: Group portrait of the 1948 Soap Box Derby Committee. Standing in the rear: James G. Marshall, Park Commissioner; Charles Van Dell, president, Madison Junio...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Group portrait of eight veteran Soap Box Derby racers who will be making their second or third attempts to win the city championship. They are shown liste...

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