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An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:

Fred Williams has been named executive director of the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, 270 N. Kent St., by the board of directors. Williams has served as assistant center director and coordinator of the Martin Luther King Center since 1973.

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An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:

A. Philip Randolph, founder of the first major black labor union in the United States and a major figure in the civil rights movement, died Wednesday at his home in New York City. He was 90.

Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: "Well, if I wasn't here today, I guess I'd be out socializing some place else," quipped 69-years-old John Brennan of South St. Paul. He had just been crowned king of the seniors of the St. Paul Winter Carnival. Not unknown to senior citizens groups, Brennan, 328 13th Ave. N., a retired NSP buildings department worker, belongs to four such organizations. The 1977 queen of the Senior Royal Court, Mrs....

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Black and white print. Depicts a white couple, Mr. and Mrs. Mann, sitting at a formal dining table, wearing capes and crowns.

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Black and white print. Black and white photo of two women standing side-by-side, smiling. One of the women is wearing a crown and an ermine cape. A handwritten caption for the image reads as follows:

Miss Bertha Anderson [and] Sally Shields, [the] Winter Carnival Queen. Golden Agers birthday party.

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Black and white print. Depicts four long, decorated tables in HQB auditorium, with groups of people of various ages seated at each one. In front of the tables is the HQB stage, where one older woman is sitting next to a baby grand piano.

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Black and white print. Depicts a group of circus performers standing together for a group picture outside of a trailer. A handwritten caption for the photo reads as follows:

Our Stage Show for 1956, 1957, 1958 [and] 1959. This is mostly all a family show.

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Color print. Depicts two white people riding a small red and gold chariot.

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Black and white print. Depicts a two-wheel chariot. A handwritten caption for the image reads as follows:

I Just finished this, it's Red [and] Gold.

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Color print. Depicts a four-wheeled, wooden wagon. A handwritten caption for the image reads as follows:

I still have this wagon. A calliope wagon. Red [and] gold [and] Sunburns wheels.