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| Date: | 07 1875 |
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| Description: | Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ... |
| Date: | 11 22 1958 |
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| Description: | A Minnesota player leaps to catch a pass as Badger defenders approach from upfield in a game at Camp Randall Stadium. A large crowd is in the stands in the... |
| Date: | 05 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm, seated at his desk in the foreground, signs a bill into law ending segregation in the Wisconsin National Guard because of race, c... |
| Date: | 07 02 2015 |
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| Description: | President Barack Obama is standing at a podium and addressing a crowd of people at UW-LaCrosse. Three secret service men are standing around him. Both the ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View towards shoreline with several people on or near a docked boat next to a pier. An African-American woman is sitting under a tree with a white baby on ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Large group of men, including railway workers, standing beside a locomotive. Original caption reads: "U.P. Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign. Farm pre... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | An African American military band poses for the camera during the Hustler Harvest Festival. They are sitting in an open sided structure with a canvas roof ... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | A large group of people gathering outdoors at the Donald Trump rally. Luke McGowan-Arnold is playing his guitar, (with a harmonica and American flag attach... |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | May Day parade with a closeup of a "memorial" float for company unions. A man leans on the parked float. The float features a faux grave and the gravestone... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | An African-American postal carrier is standing on the sidewalk with mail in a rolling cart. He is wearing a winter postal employee uniform and a hat. Behin... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | Three women are holding up a banner for the Student Union Movement, a social justice group based out of Milwaukee Area Technical College. Two of the women ... |
| Date: | 03 29 2016 |
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| Description: | Ken Nwadike, founder of the Free Hugs Project, is wearing a black and white "Free Hugs" t-shirt while starting to embrace an elderly man. A man in the fore... |
| Date: | 06 03 1884 |
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| Description: | Illustrations=s of the Republican National Convention. The main drawing shows an outside view with the caption "Scene in front of the convention building d... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Two images of Jefferson Davis within a rope forming a figure eight. At the top, Davis is standing proudly in a uniform holding a sword. The skull and cross... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in a boxing ring. Text at top reads, "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS," underneath reads "1ST ROU... |
| Date: | 05 21 1961 |
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| Description: | The Madison chapter of the Disabled American Veterans presents a 50-star flag in honor of John Parrish, center, a member of the newly built Mt. Zion Church... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in a boxing ring. Text at top reads, "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS," underneath reads "2ND ROU... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in a boxing ring. Text at top reads, "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS," underneath reads "3RD ROU... |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Mandela Barnes, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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