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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young child, Frank Hill, walking the picket line at a strike with an older man. The adult's sign reads: "Construction Workers organize for hours, wages a... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 02 23 1955 |
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| Description: | A father and two children at the Kroger grocery store check out counter purchase Dean's milk, Red Dot potato chips, Kroger pancake mix, macaroni, and bread... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks featuring a color illustration of a truck driver talking to a young boy. An International semi-truck is parked ... |
| Date: | 09 1953 |
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| Description: | A young woman shows her entry in the Central Wisconsin Junior Livestock Competition. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Children of striking Peyton Packing Company workers, all of Latin American descent, with gifts sent by union members in Wichita Kansas. |
| Date: | 12 21 1951 |
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| Description: | The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli... |
| Date: | 10 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Herman Fischer family. Emmy Lou, 16, and Herman, Jr., 20, are standing in the back row. Seated in the second row are Grandma Emma Fischer,... |
| Date: | 07 28 1957 |
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| Description: | The winner of the 1957 Soap Box Derby, Van Steiner, receiving champion's kiss from Barbara Harned, wife of "Wisconsin State Journal writer, who was a forme... |
| Date: | 08 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin accepts a dollar from a boy, probably for his Fun Fund. |
| Date: | 08 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of two children, a man, and a woman with Roundy Coughlin. |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of citizens of Akron welcoming city champions and visiting celebrities to the All-American Soap Box Derby in front of the Mayflower Hotel. A ... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Clough Gates, publisher of the "Superior Telegram," cutting a cake to celebrate his 80th birthday. Max Lavine stands in the middle background, and watching... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of a boy and his barber. The front view shows the boy holding a coonskin cap popularized at the time by the Davy Crockett television p... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a farmer driving a team of horses pulling a large wooden sled on a snow-covered road. Standing to his side, from left to right, is Marge ... |
| Date: | 03 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Herman Skolas sits in a wheelchair while weaving on his loom as his eight-year-old granddaughter, Deborah Culham of Stoughton, looks on approvingly. Skolas... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Prospective buyers examine artwork at an art fair at City Park. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Front of flyer announcing an International Harvester free family party for friends and customers. "No selling" |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Child actress Kathryn Beaumont is held upside-down by a Disney studio technician before her tumble is filmed in the first step to rotoscope a sequence for ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Child actress Kathryn Beaumont falls as one Disney studio technician rotates the cylinder she is on and another technician rocks the platform. Her fall is ... |
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