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| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Civil rights sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter. Seated at the counter from left to right are by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody. People pour ... |
| Date: | 01 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Civil rights group CORE picketing the Board of Realtors at Coach House Motor Inn for fairness and equality in housing. |
| Date: | 09 26 1984 |
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| Description: | A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone. |
| Date: | 05 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business. |
| Date: | 04 17 1964 |
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| Description: | A clerk checks real estate property information in a vast filing system housed in a vault. |
| Date: | 12 13 1968 |
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| Description: | A firefighter gets a flu shot made available to city workers in the lobby of the municipal building to avoid contracting the Hong Kong flu. |
| Date: | 01 19 1968 |
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| Description: | Protesters, members of the Milwaukee Americans for Freedom, demonstrate against presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and in favor of the Vietnam war. |
| Date: | 11 12 1987 |
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| Description: | A waitress serves a group of older Italian-American men in a diner. |
| Date: | 02 15 1987 |
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| Description: | A woman mail carrier pushes her cart with a full mailbag along a sidewalk edged by snowy lawns. |
| Date: | 09 10 1987 |
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| Description: | A traffic crossing guard reading while she is waiting for a Grafton elementary school to dismiss its students for the day. |
| Date: | 05 14 1989 |
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| Description: | A man leans out a window to clean the outside glass. |
| Date: | 11 03 1967 |
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| Description: | Workers sort mail into bins in a railroad mail car. |
| Date: | 04 27 1987 |
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| Description: | A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather. |
| Date: | 03 17 1987 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters use a board game to simulate conditions at a fire scene as part of their training. |
| Date: | 06 1971 |
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| Description: | Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop. |
| Date: | 06 30 1975 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire taking a lunch break during a workday spent collecting trash. These events kept Proxmire in touch with his Wisconsin constituents,... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
| Date: | 06 24 1971 |
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| Description: | Accident involving a UPS delivery van and a semitrailer in downtown Milwaukee. Four men, including the driver who is holding his head, were injured. |
| Date: | 04 03 1979 |
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| Description: | Emergency workers assist the passenger injured in an accident at North Sherman Boulevard and W. North Avenue. The automobile, which was driven by a ninete... |
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