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| Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Construction workers with hard hats take a break while working on the construction of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A business man sits on a water pipe while smoking outside of a building near the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a homeless man sitting by a fire in a large barrel. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers wearing hardhats stand outside a storefront while on a break. |
| Date: | 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men are looking at a newly unveiled plaque commemorating International Harvester's "100 Years in Chicago" celebration. Original caption reads: "Fowler ... |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi, seen wearing sunglasses in the middle of a crowd, leads a demonstration against discrimination. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Soldiers from the second Wisconsin regiment line a city street upon returning from Puerto Rico. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a family in field. A man holding a cigar leans against a tree trunk, and a woman and young girl are seated on a broken limb which lies over the... |
| Date: | 09 1958 |
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| Description: | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) picketers outside the Schroeder Hotel where the Apprenticeship meeting was held. A Blatz... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A street car in Krakow photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf while on a tour of German-occupied Poland. He labeled it in his scrapbook."Jews ... |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | Children and adults in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlovwisc, Poland, posing for American journalist Alvin Steinkopf. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, photographed by American journalist Alvin Steinkopf, about one year after the German invasion. |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | Street scene of people in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, being addressed by two German soldiers. The scene was witnessed by American journalist A... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had... |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | A street in the Jewish ghetto in Lublin, Poland. |
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| Description: | Guidelines prepared and distributed as a public service by the Council For Public Safety in New York, NY. A pamphlet survival guide for visitors to the cit... |
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