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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent... |
| Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa... |
| Date: | 07 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Young demonstrators at the CIO's "Don't Buy a Depression" rally. |
| Date: | 12 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Children of members of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) performing at the union Christmas party. There are accordion players and a... |
| Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America and their families walking the picket line. "Picket Duty - Everyone's Job" Even the youngste... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Osborne brand farm implements showing a woman, child and dog enjoying a "group hug." Also includes color illustrations of a hay rake... |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Housing for employees of logging and lumber operations associated with International Harvester. The housing consists of small one-room shacks in a wooded a... |
| Date: | 10 17 1963 |
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| Description: | A librarian reads a children's book aloud to young boys and girls. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Russian advertising poster for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm equipment. Includes a large illustration of a woman and young girl with a dog... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Imprinted with "International Harve... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Color advertising poster with many images of the Osborne line working the fields, and a mother and daughter with a dog. Made by the Hayes Litho. Co. of Buf... |
| Date: | 12 26 1982 |
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| Description: | A Target retail store is flooded with customers returning Christmas gifts. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
| Date: | 11 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Office interior of the Madison News Agency, 446 West Gilman Street, taken from entrance. Employees are sitting in the room, and in the background a group o... |
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