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UWM Protest Against Apartheid

Date: 12 10 1977
Description: Several people wearing coats, hats, and gloves are walking in a circle outside a building. One person is holding a sign that reads: "Drop the Holdings, Est...
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Clapping Hands

Date: 1965
Description: “Close-up” photograph of a line of people, a detail showing essentially their hands clapping.
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Waiting at the Courthouse

Date: 1955
Description: Unidentified people waiting or conferring, possibly lawyer and clients at a courthouse.
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Youth Council Delivers Christmas Donations

Date: 12 24 1966
Description: Followed by father James Groppi, their advisor, four members of the Milwaukee Youth Council of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), are walk...
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Waukesha County Dragging Operation

Date: 01 05 1955
Description: Elevated view of two people breaking ice with an ax and an ice breaking pole [a gaff?]; other people in the background are standing in a boat pushing poles...
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Boys' Marching Band

Date: 1956
Description: Uniformed boys' bugle corps passing along a street in a parade. A group of people watch from the sidewalk across the street.
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Ronald Moss

Date: 05 31 1955
Description: A boy wearing a peaked cap is looking to his right. Behind him are rows of standing people, and an American flag. Caption reads: "As the marchers flashed b...
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Eddie Cantor

Date: 08 03 1946
Description: Eddie Cantor on stage at Centurama standing at a microphone with another man. People are standing in the background watching.
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Eddie Cantor on Stage at Centurama

Date: 07 03 1946
Description: Eddie Cantor on stage at Centurama standing at a microphone with another man. People are standing in the background watching.
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Pleasure Boat on Lake Michigan

Date: 1900
Description: View of a boat, the Whittaker, with most people sitting in chairs, and a few men standing. In the background is a steep shoreline, with houses along...
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Kappa Alpha Theta Coffee

Date: 10 16 1982
Description: View through a doorway towrads three women sitting and standing at a table. A child and other people are sitting nearby. Caption reads: "Miss Barbara Ch...
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Eddie Cantor on Stage at Centurama

Date: 08 03 1946
Description: View of Eddie Cantor on stage standing in front of a microphone. There is a band below him on the left, and people are sitting in chairs on the stage behin...
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Wauwatosa Cafeteria and Custodial Workers Protest

Date: 06 13 1968
Description: Several people are walking down a sidewalk carrying signs. Some of the signs read: "Tax Dollar Wasted by Tosa Board," "Wauwatosa School Board Unfair," and ...
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Hays School Graduation Cake

Date: 06 14 1956
Description: Three young people and one adult woman are sitting around a cake shaped like a book with writing on its open pages. One young man is holding a knife over t...
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Meeting of the City Police and Fire Commission

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Slightly elevated view of several people sitting around a table with papers in front of them. Caption reads: "Meeting of City Police and Fire Commission. 7...
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National German Song Festival Attendees

Date: 07 28 1956
Description: Several people posing outside a Flying Tiger Line airplane, on the ground and on the airstair. The airstair has logos for Northwest Airlines. Caption reads...
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Recession Hearing

Date: 03 15 1961
Description: A man is standing and holding a microphone. Behind him are two cameramen with cameras, and several people sitting or standing. In the foreground are two me...
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Trolley Guitar Concert

Date: 02 25 1956
Description: Three people clapping and smiling near a man playing a guitar. Caption reads: "Railroad fans clapped to the rocking rhythm of a guitar player on a s...
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Young Couple at a Cafe

Date: 1965
Description: Head and shoulders view of young couple, seated in subdued light in the Avant Garde Cafe Espresso.
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Fishing Contest

Date: 1940
Description: View of large crowd of boys and girls fishing along the shoreline with bamboo poles at a lake. Very likely a sponsored "fishing contest." There are a few p...

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