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| Description: | George Wiley is sitting around a desk with other members of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). The man who is sitting on the right is talking... |
| Date: | 09 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Dilapidated backyard at Milwaukee amd N. Bryan Street next to Madison Builders Supply. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A family of squatters standing in front of a shack, in a camp outside of Santiago, Chile. The father is holding a child in his arms and the mother is stand... |
| Date: | 04 03 1915 |
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| Description: | Newspaper illustration of a man carrying a bedroll standing near railroad tracks and a sign that reads: "Warning, Private Property, Keep Off." The caption ... |
| Date: | 09 2013 |
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| Description: | The bronze and plaster sculpture by George Segal depiciting five men waiting in a bread line at a door. The sculpture is on the rooftop garden of the Madis... |
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| Description: | Social action poster advertising a fast. The caption reads: "Dec. 8th Fast to save a people." Below is a photograph of a Pakistani family. Text continues: ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Five children seated in front of a dilapidated shack that serves as a dwelling. Three dogs roam in the front yard. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Young man and a dog in the yard outside a dilapidated shack in the woods that serves as a dwelling. Laundry hangs from a line at left. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Boy dressed in work clothes and covered with soot from working in a mine. He wears a hat with a rudimentary lantern on top. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | View from behind of a man standing on railroad tracks surveying a row of dilapidated shanties. Used on the cover of brochure with the title, 'Mississippi 1... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A deceased rat lies on the ground near a wood pile. 80 people live in 21 buildings in the Taylor Alley neighborhood of Natchez. The occupants have 11 hyd... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two women wash clothes in large pails, while a girl and a young man stand nearby. "43 people, 10 families, share three outdoor hydrants. 8 people share 1 i... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two of the 13 toilets available in the neighborhood, housed in a small building. Vines grow up the side of the structure and debris is scattered in the sur... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A woman and two girls look on as a water hydrant is turned on by the woman. "Two families, 6 people, share this hydrant." “Row upon row of dilapidated bu... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Buildings, likely houses, at the intersection of two dirt roads. Laundry hangs from a clothesline in the background. “Row upon row of dilapidated buildi... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A water hydrant stands next to a drainage ditch, while clothing hangs on a clothes like above. In the background, children walk away from the camera betwee... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Children gather in the foreground, while houses and yards are visible in the background. A woman walks along the dirt path towards the camera. “Row upon... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation. |
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| Description: | Snapshot taken by Sigurd Olson of refugees scavenging in military trash bins. Although the location is not identified, it is probably in or near Berlin. |
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| Description: | An African American family standing on the porch of their home, behind a wooden picket fence. |
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