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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls. |
| Date: | 11 20 1988 |
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| Description: | Mail-order shopper with too many choices ponders her next purchase. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an image of a young woman st... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Vi Slovin, an employee of the United Packinghouse Workers District One office in Chicago, working after hours to distribute leaflets about the Wilson & Co.... |
| Date: | 01 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Included in the group portrait taken at the 50th anniversary luncheon of the founding of the Gudrid Reading circle are, from the left: Mrs. Juliue E. (Ann... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A woman at an office desk reads a pamphlet entitled, "What is Quality in a Motor Truck?" A male worker speaks on the telephone in the background. The two m... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Suffragists are holding small flags and handing out literature on a downtown street corner. A woman and a man are both wearing pin-back buttons t... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of women are preparing stacks of literature on the "Vitalized Agriculture Program" in the basement of a building. The program was administered by I... |
| Date: | 08 31 1953 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Madison Council of Church Women executive board examine brochures with Jessie Kriel, the Americanism chairman of the Madison Woman's C... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of women and girls seated outdoors read copies of the same magazine, possibly as part of a Freedom School lesson. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman stands and reads. Two children are nearby. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A seated woman holds civil rights literature. |
| Date: | 01 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Ward captains meet to plan the Mothers' March on Polio in connection with the Dane County March of Dimes. The Mothers' March will take place the night of J... |
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| Description: | A Caucasian woman, identified as Barbara Deming, hands leaflets to an African American family on a front porch. The location is tentatively identified as G... |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips chats with two men. She is wearing a dress, sweater and scarf and is holding papers and roses in one arm. The men are wearing plaid suits and ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Autochrome of Genevieve (Milward) McVicar, married to Angus B. McVicar, seated in a chair and holding a copy of the "Pictorial Review." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of Jehovah's Witnesses selling copies of The Watchtower magazine. Standing together on a sidewalk are two women, two men, a girl and a boy. ... |
| Date: | 05 22 1958 |
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| Description: | Some of the "advance guard" for the Sons of Norway district convention at Hotel Loraine. Left to right are: Bernard Jacobson, Evanston, Illinois, district ... |
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