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| Date: | 10 30 1968 |
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| Description: | Three children, dressed up in homemade astronaut costumes for Halloween. One clever parent has made good use of a football helmet! |
| Date: | 06 08 1963 |
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| Description: | Bride and groom wait in the open convertible that is their transportation to their reception while a mechanic works under the hood. |
| Date: | 02 20 1969 |
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| Description: | Astronaut James A. Lovell accepting a gift of cheese from Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles during a gathering in Lovell's honor. A model of the Apollo ... |
| Date: | 08 28 1960 |
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| Description: | An insurance executive carries on with work after he was hit by a car, dictating letters to his secretary from his hospital bed, with his leg in traction. |
| Date: | 04 04 1969 |
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| Description: | Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird of Wisconsin (on the far right) with astronaut James Lovell, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, and his wif... |
| Date: | 05 16 1963 |
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| Description: | President John F. Kennedy greets members of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers union who were in the capitol for a COPE conference. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Cesar Chavez (center) head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, receives a Ghandi commemorative medal from Theodore Mazarello (left) of the Gandhi Cen... |
| Date: | 11 1964 |
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| Description: | Delegates from the International Labor Press Association place a marker on the grave of President John F. Kennedy to mark the first anniversary of his deat... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 50 at a ceremony marking the closure of the Swift & Company plant in Milwaukee. The local was o... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Members of Milwaukee Livestock Handlers, Local 567 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Union, celebrate their 10th anniversary. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with representatives of six of the world's religions. In the center is the text: "Peace On Earth." On the inside (not shown) the sender is the... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, center, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | International Harvester salesmen gather at a table to share a meal at the company farm at Tifton. International Harvester offered classes on the farm in or... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | "On Groundhog Day, Andrew J. Mueller went out early with his camera and set up a crystal ball to aid the groundhog in his predictions. He set up the camera... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, right, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of w... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, right, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of w... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A farm worker, facing camera, is sworn in before filing a claim for worker’s compensation at the Obreros Unidos union office in Wautoma in 1967. A voluntee... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Marchers of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) leaving Wautoma and walking towards Madison along Highway 21 to petition lawmakers to hold farms and food indus... |
| Date: | 12 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing from a party given on the occasion of Rex Stout's 75th birthday, with a drawing of Stout's head by Austin Briggs, who illustra... |
| Date: | 01 27 1960 |
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| Description: | A reunion of farm leaders whose education came through the Short Course is held each year during Farm and Home Week. These leaders, left to right, are Geor... |
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