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| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a female model posing with a Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor. The tractor was meant to commemorate the bicentennial of the... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph for International Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor featuring a model dressed as Betsy Ross sewing stars onto a U.S. flag. The ... |
| Date: | 04 16 1972 |
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| Description: | The Apollo 16 flight crew and backup crew at the breakfast served four hours before launch. With them, seated on the right side of the table and pointing, ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Color poster printed to honor the 60th anniversary of Alfred Lawson's flight from Milwaukee to Washington, D.C. The poster includes a portrait of Lawson a... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | A high point of the weekend was the marriage on Sunday of Robert Leslie and Barbara Swenson of the band Northern Comfort. Overhead view of the couple, eith... |
| Date: | 04 1974 |
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| Description: | Hilton Hanna (left), a national leader in the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, swears in the new officers of Local 248 in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 10 23 1978 |
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| Description: | Staff of the "Guardian," the Marxist-Leninist weekly newspaper, taken on the 40th anniversary of the paper's establishment. The cake is decorated with a ha... |
| Date: | 02 03 1978 |
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| Description: | "U.S. Post Office. Rural mail carrier, Ralph Koll, sorts the mail prior to beginning his route." |
| Date: | 02 1970 |
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| Description: | Congressman George Mahon of Texas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, welcomes newly-appointed Congressman David R. Obey to the committee and ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | From left to right, a sister, mother and brother attending a wedding celebration in Mercedes, Texas. The woman on the left is wearing an empire waist sleev... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A black and white International Harvester Scout 4x4 truck is towing a Sesame Street themed parade float. Muppe... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Macy's storefront can be seen in the background. A yellow and brown International Harvester Scout 4x4 is towing a float... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Macy's storefront can be seen in the background. A cream and white International Harvester Scout 4x4 is pulling a float... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Macy's storefront can be seen in the background. A white and brown International Harvester Scout 4x4 is pulling a float... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | Thanksgiving Day Parade, either Macy's Parade in Manhattan, New York, or Gimbels' Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A red and white International Harve... |
| Date: | 11 25 1976 |
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| Description: | People EW working with floats for a Thanksgiving Day Parade, either Macy's Parade in Manhattan, New York, or Gimbels' Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.... |
| Date: | 11 26 1976 |
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| Description: | Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A cream and white International Harvester Scout 4x4 is pulling a float with a Santa Claus theme. On the float, a group of r... |
| Date: | 10 28 1978 |
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| Description: | Menu from the Jamieson House, with decorative borders featuring putti holding a platter of meat, wine cellar keys, and a basket of wines; decanting wine fr... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Flyer advertising a May Day rally in support of public workers to be held at Library Mall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Local public worke... |
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