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| Date: | 12 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case. |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., meeting with a delegation of Latin American newspapermen in his office at the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights... |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Edward R. Murrow of CBS. On March 9, 1954, Murrow broadcast an episode of his "See It Now" series about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism, and on ... |
| Date: | 08 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Professor Henry Ewbank, the first director of Wisconsin Public Radio-WHA, and internationally known as a pioneer in radio education and the tea... |
| Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and women at the Madison Dye Works party. Included in the portrait on the left is an accordion player. One man sitting on the floor ... |
| Date: | 09 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Violence against African American journalists covering the Little Rock integration story. Here the crowd moves in on Jimmy Hicks (center, wearing a hat), t... |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks being interviewed by Mrs. Anne Braden, editor of the "Southern Patriot," at Braden's home. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | James Forman in a SNCC (Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee) office. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor standing in the middle of a street, holding a large camera. On the left, a car is driving by, and a person is walking on the sidewalk in t... |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of part of the City Room with staff, "Wisconsin State Journal". |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View down counter of women and men sitting and drinking beer or soda. Two men stand on the back left. One woman is wearing a bathing cap, and other women a... |
| Date: | 05 1965 |
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| Description: | Matthew A Pinter, business agent of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 of Milwaukee, speaks from the floor during a district union convention... |
| Date: | 05 21 1948 |
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| Description: | National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | SNCC leader Bob Moses. Although this image is not fully captioned, it is believed to be the voter registration office in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of men use a Titan tractor to power a silo filler. There are several wagons and a barn. A few of the men may be observers from International Harveste... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Merriman Smith, who covered the presidents from Roosevelt to Nixon for United Press International, in a characteristic reporter's pose in front of a typewr... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Journalist Robert S. Allen, center, in military uniform, poses with the staff of the "Wisconsin State Journal". A graduate of the Wisconsin Journalism Scho... |
| Date: | 07 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rebecca Chalmers Barton, Director of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights, seated at her desk. |
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