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Community Polio Vaccine

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Description: Tables are set up at a City Hall basement lobby as a venue for public access to the polio vaccine.
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Worker at Milwaukee Public Library

Date: 1958
Description: Construction worker at a conference on economic problems at the Milwaukee Public Library. The subject is Albert Pearson.
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Picket Line at Milwaukee City Hall

Date: 09 23 1946
Description: Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street a...
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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: Close-up of two participants, a man and a boy, in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration. Both are looking at the photographer and the boy carries a ...
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John J. Beggs

Date: 05 27 1921
Description: Quarter-length portrait of John J. Beggs, Milwaukee public utilities executive.
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Milwaukee Public School Board Walk Out

Date: 01 21 1964
Description: Lloyd Barbee, NAACP state president, walking out of a Milwaukee Public School Board meeting when Chairman Harold W. Story refused to allow the participatio...
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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: Horse-drawn wagon in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration through downtown. The horse bears signs that read "1946 One Horse Pay!" and "1846 One Hor...
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Rezeau Blanchard Brown

Date: 12 02 1936
Description: Waist-up seated portrait of Rezeau Blanchard Brown, Milwaukee public utility executive.
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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: Decorated truck driven by Leonard Greachowiak through downtown in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration. The beribboned pickup displays a sign that ...
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Frosty House

Date: 12 18 1963
Description: A craft class member of Milwaukee public school system's recreation department frosting a gingerbread cookie house at the Grant Street social center.
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Father Groppi at School Boycott

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Description: Father James Groppi and students from Boniface School join the public school boycott. They're clapping their hands and appear to be chanting.
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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: A United Public Workers parade/demonstration from an adjacent sidewalk. The line of participants including a horse-drawn wagon stretches into the distance....
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Language Lab Reel-To-Reel Tape Machines

Date: 02 18 1959
Description: Language teachers listening to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College.
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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: Part of a United Public Workers parade/demonstration on a downtown city street. A horse-drawn wagon carries some participants. Parade signs read "No Swivel...
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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: View from sidewalk of horse-drawn wagon on a tree-lined city street in a United Public Workers parade/demonstration. The wagon has a number of boys in it w...
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Child Sitting on Sidewalk

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Description: A barefoot child is sitting on the sidewalk. Houses and buildings are in the background, and laundry is hanging out to dry.
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"A Primitive Instinct"

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Description: Two boys attempting to climb a wall on the facade of a building near a window.
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George A. Abert

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Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait on a card for George Ackerman Abert, a Democratic politician active in the State Senate (1877-1878), Milwaukee city com...
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Donald Davidson, Braves PR Director witth Lew Burdette

Date: 04 13 1961
Description: Donald Davidson (left), Director of Public Relations for the Milwaukee Braves, talks with pitcher Lew Burdette at an Elks club dinner.
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Aztec Diorama at Museum

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Description: Diorama of Aztec sacrificial rites at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Two men are holding the man to be sacrificed in a splayed position while a third man sta...

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