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"The Great Dictator" Press Photograph

Date: 10 15 1940
Description: Crowds gather under the marquee of the Capitol Theatre for the New York premiere of Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" the evening of October 15, 1940....
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CIA Truck Observes Commandos L

Date: 1963
Description: Moving truck across the street from the house of the anti-Castro group, Commandos L, purportedly occupied by CIA observers of the group. The moving van rea...
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Sausage Display

Date: 04 15 1967
Description: Richard Bublitz, William Mackowiak and Edward McPhetridge looking through a window at a sausage display in a delicatessen owned by Charles E. (Bud) Gillett...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

President John F. Kennedy

Date: 11 22 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Dallas: President John F. Kennedy is shown in motorcade as it moved toward the downtown area. In cente...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Mrs. Rose Kennedy

Date: 11 24 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, brother of the late president, escorts his mother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy fro...
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Long Voyage Home Marquee

Date: 1940
Description: View down sidewalk towards people standing in a line outside a movie theater showing the film The Long Voyage Home. Many people are holding umbrella...
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Mexican Independence Day Parade

Date: 09 18 1989
Description: A group of people are standing and sitting, including several children in the back of a truck. Caption reads: "Spectators lined the Mexican Independence Da...
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Havana Parade, Cuban Revolution

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Description: Parade celebrating Fidel Casto's arrival in Havana at the end of the Cuban Revolution. 26th of July Movement soldiers are riding on top of a military vehic...
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Phillip Moreland

Date: 10 23 1985
Description: A man us sitting on concrete steps, and is wearing a beret, eyeglasses, and a sweater. Caption reads: "Phillip Moreland, a Milwaukee longshoreman idled by ...
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Daisy Bates, the Little Rock Nine and the 101st Airborne Division

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Daisy Bates looks out from her front window as members of the 101st Airborne Division prepare to escort members of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High S...
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Filming "The Cool World"

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Description: Elevated view looking over the railings in front of a building of a crowd of people watching a scene from the film "The Cool World" being shot. The cameram...
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Flushing Tar Dye

Date: 07 29 1983
Description: A man is using a hose to wash a street. Behind him, a man is driving by in a car. A sign for Doc's Coin Mart is on the building behind the car. Caption rea...
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Breaking the Blockade

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector....
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Limousine on Havana Street

Date: 1959
Description: Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve...
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Edgar William Gordon

Date: 01 15 1987
Description: View looking out window at a man who is washing the window. Caption reads: "Edgar Gordon spreads cleanliness and happiness." Edgar William Gordon was a ...
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Snoopy For President

Date: 08 14 1968
Description: A group of children are holding up hand-made signs, demonstrating for "Snoopy for President." Several children are wearing Peanuts t-shirts and sweatshirts...
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Milwaukee March

Date: 1967
Description: Elevated view of a group of people marching in the street with Father James Groppi. There is a man driving a Milwaukee police vehicle in front, and one man...
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Students for a Democratic Society Booth — Marquette University

Date: 10 22 1966
Description: A young man and woman are seated at a booth and speaking to one or more people who have their backs to the camera. Behind them is a sign that reads: "le bo...
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World Tourist

Date: 08 10 1970
Description: Heinz Stücke on his bicycle in front of the Milwaukee Journal building at 333 W. State Street. Stücke carries his belongings in bags attached to his bike w...
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Father Groppi and Demonstrators

Date: 1968
Description: Father James Groppi (1930-) and school desegregation demonstrators marching in. Milwaukee holding signs that read "Stop School Segregation"

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