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| Date: | 07 1967 |
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| Description: | Several young boys selling fruit drinks, penny candy, and snow cones to parched pedestrians. A city bus is in the background. |
| Date: | 12 14 1977 |
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| Description: | Man sweeping the walkway and entrance of the Rio Rexall Drugstore. The windows are decorated for the Christmas holiday. |
| Date: | 07 09 1970 |
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| Description: | Picket line of striking Northwest Airlines ticket agents and office workers who were represented by the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks. |
| Date: | 03 27 1989 |
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| Description: | Father on a bicycle towing son on a scooter. |
| Date: | 05 05 1985 |
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| Description: | Father carrying his infant son on his back while mowing the lawn. |
| Date: | 10 31 1986 |
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| Description: | Parents with children at a carved pumpkin, or jack-o-lantern, display on lawn on Halloween night. |
| Date: | 04 06 1985 |
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| Description: | Young men performing skateboard handstands on downtown sidewalks. |
| Date: | 12 04 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of college teachers, non-tenured, at UW-Parkside protesting the decision to not renew their contracts. |
| Date: | 06 26 1986 |
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| Description: | Kids make a "train," with the bicyclist in the front pulling three girls on roller skates along a sidewalk. |
| 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: | 07 27 1988 |
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| Description: | Cousins set up a road-side stand to sell fruits and vegetables grown by their grandfather. |
| Date: | 11 08 1967 |
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| Description: | Teachers protest the lack of a "concrete offer" for a new contract in front of the Milwaukee vocational school. |
| Date: | 11 12 1981 |
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| Description: | The Crescent Garage. Although the photograph dates from 1981, the curb-side gas pumps are a throwback to the early days of gas stations. The Crescent Garag... |
| Date: | 02 02 1967 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of a snowstorm that hit Milwaukee just at rush hour creating a traffic headache for homebound commuters (seen here at Wisconsin and Milwaukee ... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Motel that was formerly a clandestine safe-house for the 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution. Parking lot with a blue car in front of a pink,... |
| Date: | 05 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of street entertainment, with crowds, dancing and band concert to welcome home Wisconsin National Guard, 3d Regiment, Company H, after servic... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated scene still for the film "Foreign Correspondent." Pedestrians are walking with umbrellas down the sidewalk in the rain. On the street people are r... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from street corner at Broadway and West 50th Street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when it was screening the movie "Foreign C... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when the film "Foreign Correspondent" was showing there. The marquee says the gala premiere o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square. There is a large crowd on the sidewalk outside the theater. The marquee says the premiere of the fi... |
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