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| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1931-) and social activists at NAACP March, marching east up Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation" |
| Date: | 08 24 1968 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kress, dressed in lederhosen, enjoy beer and sweet corn at the Mid-summer Festival. |
| Date: | 03 26 1968 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates. |
| Date: | 04 28 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of businessmen and customers watch a board that displays the stock amounts of the American Stock Exchange in a board room. |
| Date: | 10 30 1968 |
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| Description: | Three children, dressed up in homemade astronaut costumes for Halloween. One clever parent has made good use of a football helmet! |
| Date: | 11 01 1968 |
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| Description: | A mock presidential political convention at a middle school. |
| Date: | 10 11 1968 |
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| Description: | Kindergarten students wear space helmets they made from buckets as part of a class project designed to interest them in current events. A cardboard "Apollo... |
| Date: | 09 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center. |
| 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 21 1968 |
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| Description: | A man exhales into a spirometer to measure his vital lung capacity while at rest. |
| 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: | 04 07 1968 |
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| Description: | Two women in bikinis are walking their dogs by a row of campers at Terry Andrae State Park. |
| Date: | 01 27 1968 |
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| Description: | Woman working on a wire harness for the lunar module section of an Apollo spacecraft at the AC Electronics division of General Motors Corp. plant. |
| Date: | 12 19 1968 |
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| Description: | A vocational student holds a badger at The Ranch, a training center for mentally and physically disabled young adults. |
| Date: | 10 17 1968 |
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| Description: | An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged. |
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