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| Date: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby. |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of part of the City Room with staff, "Wisconsin State Journal". |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the total team working on the election campaign of Carl Zeidler. Max's nickname was "Max the Axe." Milt Polland always wanted to be photo... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | SNCC leader Bob Moses. Although this image is not fully captioned, it is believed to be the voter registration office in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| Date: | 07 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rebecca Chalmers Barton, Director of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights, seated at her desk. |
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| Description: | The London office of the Associated Press, with Alvin Steinkopf working at his typewriter, center rear. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a female domestic abuse counselor sitting at a desk holding a bible with a rope-noose around it. |
| Date: | 1984 |
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| Description: | Loyal Democrats sit at a table while calling to remind local residents of the upcoming Merrill rally, at which both Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro ap... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Interior of a home taken by a civil rights volunteer. "The living room at the Thompson's. Actually, the room was somewhat misleading since the other roo... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A woman and a young boy pose for a civil rights volunteer. "Often one of Mrs. Thompson's nieces or nephews would come[?] to breakfast in order to have som... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A woman and two children pose for a photograph taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Mrs. Willie Thompson, my warmly gracious hostess for over two weeks. U... |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips, with her friend and secretary Rose Cooperman. Irna is holding papers and smoking a cigarette. Rose is sitting in the background writing. |
| Date: | 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Sid Boyum standing with two men inside a bar. Sid, on the left, has his arm up in the air, and his button-down shirt appears to be torn, ... |
| Date: | 01 02 1979 |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of Paul Friedman talking on the phone at his desk. He is holding a cigarette in his left hand and a pen in his right hand. There is a Coke ... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of the Janesville Donald Trump rally. A Vietnam veteran is holding up a sign reading: "Racism is Ugly, Racism is Bad." A younger man is standi... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Jesse Jackson gesturing while sitting at his desk in the PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) headquarters. In the background, on the wall, ... |
| Date: | 06 05 1960 |
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| Description: | Self portrait of Edwin Stein, Wisconsin State Journal photographer. |
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