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Let's finish the Teddy Roosevelt campaign in his birthday month!

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Collage of photographs taken by the Chicago Ethnic Arts Project in 1977, including: 5 Philippine dancers standing in front of downtown Chicago buildings in red shirts and striped skirts waiting to go on stage and smiling broadly at the camera; an elderly Italian-American baker concentrates as he pushes a long stick into a white brick wall oven; A Black man in a straw hat and leather vest sits at an easel on a sidewalk drawing the portrait of a black woman with a large bouffant and shiny shirt with a large bow at the neck. A crowd of young men look on; A middle aged man and woman sit in their densely decorated living room - the man is playing a bouzouki - a long necked Greek string instrument with a round teardrop body covered in ornate decoration; Children in traditional Polish dress sit smiling on a float decorated with red and white paper for "Polish Constitution day"

Chicago 1977

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Hannah Arendt

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Elect Garfield!

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Deed executed in the city of Antequera on February 3, 1572, whereby Garci Ponce de León claims that he is a "Hijodalgo" of the city and therefore should be exempt from payment of the taxes on meat and fish.

Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents

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