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| Description: | A Milwaukee member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America gutting a beef carcass on the dressing floor. |
| Date: | 08 1912 |
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| Description: | Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View across street towards Harry Rodin's service station at the intersection of North 7th and West Galena. People are standing at the corner near the bus s... |
| Date: | 08 28 1962 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley, in the lobby of the Schroeder Hotel in Milwaukee, with a group from the Boys Club holding campaign signs. They presented him with... |
| Date: | 07 03 1886 |
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| Description: | The east side of the Schlitz Palm Garden at N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and was one of the ... |
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| Description: | March for fair housing in Milwaukee. Father James Groppi is on the right. |
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| Description: | Marchers carrying signs bearing the names of Milwaukee suburbs during a CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) march for fair housing in Milwaukee. They are pa... |
| Date: | 02 1964 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) members carrying signs and marching against school segregation in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking through a megaphone from the hood of a bus. Groppi stands with Alderperson Vel Phillips. Several of the people in the assemble... |
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| Description: | Group of people on steps in front of unknown building in Milwaukee. A car is parked on the street. |
| Date: | 03 13 1972 |
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| Description: | Original Falk caption reads, "Largest bevel gears manufactured by Falk to date. This photograph was taken in the Heat Treat Department." Male employees in ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1978 |
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| Description: | Anotha Burt, a Falk employee, inspects a large walk gear. This particular gear was purchased by Page Engineering. Original Falk caption reads, "Large walk ... |
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| Description: | Church located at the corner of Broadway and Division Streets. A group of men, women and children stand at the corner near a large lamp post. |
| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi and the NAACP Youth Council demonstrating outside the Eagles Club at night beneath a marquee advertising a Duke Ellington performance. |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi meets around a large table with the NAACP Youth Council. Several of the men are wearing shirts with the word "Commando" on the back. |
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| Description: | William Kelley on left shaking the hand of Helen Brown as Art Schmidt of Schlitz Brewing Company looks on. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men standing around a puddle alongside a road near a small snowbank. One man is bending down near the puddle with a hammer in his hand. Signs for beer are ... |
| Date: | 04 11 1969 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lloyd Knox demonstrating the technique of making spoon bread. |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi, seen wearing sunglasses in the middle of a crowd, leads a demonstration against discrimination. |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration. |
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