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| Description: | View of a woman in a bathing suit and a toddler at Brittingham Park. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American woman in a formal dress seated on a sofa. Photograph was taken by Berdette E. Akin, w... |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Two young women and an infant in a stroller posing for a picture at a gas station. One woma has her arm around the other woman. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Pam Johnson, who in 1981 became the publisher for the "Ithaca Journal." This made her the first black woman to become publis... |
| Date: | 1989 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nellie Wilson posing in front of an American flag and a Smith Steel Workers logo. |
| Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Aunt Lily Richmond (b.1862), right, with Ollie Greene Lewis. |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting on the arm of a chair holding a lighted candle in a glass bottle. A woman wearing a headscarf is sitting in the arm chair. A stove is in t... |
| Date: | 04 26 1979 |
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| Description: | A fashionably dressed woman is smiling and holding a book about Diana Ross. Caption reads: "Dressed in Diana Ross style, Denita Love, 23, wore a sophistica... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips sitting at her desk in the Milwaukee Common Council chamber. She is writing on a piece of paper. Seated next to her are two unidentified women... |
| Date: | 07 20 1955 |
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| Description: | United Church Women board members attend a breakfast to honor their president, Mildred Campbell, who will be moving from Madison. At left, Irma Jenkins ass... |
| Date: | 06 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of nine African-American women and Rev. Cunningham (?) standing in front of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 548 West Johnson Street. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing beaded necklaces, long earrings, and are wrap... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of an African-American family. Sitting in the back is a man, holding a book, and a woman. Sitting in front is a boy, holding a gun, ... |
| Date: | 01 30 1987 |
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| Description: | A woman smiles for the camera as she poses with her bowling ball. The caption reads, "Bertha Eichelberger bowls in five leagues every week." She is wearing... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A woman in military uniform is sitting at a desk writing in a notepad. Caption on back reads: "Cpl Daisy Berry, Milwaukee, Wisc., a member of the 7871st Tr... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three African American women, Lucille Jones, Charlotte Simms, and Phoebe Hines, posing in Vilas Park. |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | An African-American police officer in the foreground is talking on a phone or walkie-talkie while he is surveying the line of men and women waiting to ent... |
| Date: | 05 14 1968 |
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| Description: | Three young women are sitting on one side of a table facing two men and a woman, whose backs are to the camera. Similar arrangements of groups are in the b... |
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