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This puppy meme rhetorically asks everyone to put their hands up if there should be puppies as a reward for putting up the 2016 election.
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The "That would be great" meme combined with "neither candidate" theme. It would be great if people didn't make assumptions.
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This picture has many clown faces and is captioned "Spent all this time preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse and we have a Clown Apocalypse instead!"
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Over a picture of President Obama these words are captioned. "Dinosaurs are extinct. ... Thanks Obama!"
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We have "My toast got burnt this morning. ... Thanks Obama" captioned over a picture of President Obama frowning.
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Gay Babadook trend started in early 2017. This came from Netflix accidentally listing the horror film "The Babadook" under the LGBT+ genre section.
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This year’s winner in the Social Issues category is #LoveWins, which emerged in June as a response to the Supreme Court decision making same-sex marriage the law of the land. Around the world, people used this hashtag to celebrate marriage equality
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The winner in the category of Fun that Matters is the Twitter account, @TrumpsHair. This account boasts both praises of and memes mocking Trump’s comb-over flagrante. Popular memes include dogs, cats, guinea pigs, and chickens with their hair styled…
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The #BrusselsLockdown cats took the honors as the digital animal of the year. This hashtag emerged in Belgium shortly after the Paris terrorist attacks. Police in Brussels asked citizens not to tweet about police activity in their neighborhoods…
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Dr. Craig Jessop giving the introductory presentation at the Concatenation Exhibit Event.
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The words "Clown Lives Matter" overlays a still of the Joker from The Dark Knight Rises.
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This meme has an image of a clown and a caption, "Haven't heard about Pokemon Go since we showed up, have you? ... You're welcome."
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This picture of two creepy clowns in the woods has a caption, "Do you want to get shot? ... 'Cause this is how you'll get shot."
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This cartoon has two children trick-or-treating as a clown and a witch. The man answering the door asks "What have we here? A scary clown and a witch!" His wife, reading the newspaper about the 2016 elections, responds, "Tell me about it..."
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This screen capture of a Facebook post advises people on how to be safe from the creepy clowns
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A group of people stand in front of a teepee holding glowing letter signs which together spell "PROTECTORS."
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Image of a protest in Chicago against DAPL
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This cartoon has a pilgrim dressed in a gas mask pointing a gun at a Native American dressed in a No DAPL T-shirt as they sit across a dinner table with a turkey on it. The pilgrim asks for the water; the Native American refuses.
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Some statistics about Brock Turner's Rape Sentence
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#ThingslongerthanBrockTurner'sRapeSentence include Dory's memory
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#ThingsShorterthanBrockTurner'sRapeSentence includes the amount of time Harambe spent with the kid
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Martha Stewart was in prison longer than Brock Turner
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Rape culture includes both Brock Turner's short rape sentence and Trump's lewd comments
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Thanks Obama meme. "North Korea plans to invade. ... Thanks Obama."
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This Thanks, Obama meme complains that "She was Hannah Montana when Bush was president."
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This sincere rendition of the Thanks, Obama meme has this caption, "THere are still battles to wage, more hearts and minds to change as long as there's a single child in America that's afraid they won't be accepted for who they are, we've got more…
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Thanks, Obama meme variations
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DAPL protest
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This facebook post celebrates over 1 million people checking in at Standing Rock during the protest
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A picture of Pepe the frog with a glass of champagne. Above the picture is text that says: "When the customer says 'I won't be coming back here again' expecting you to burst into tears but really you're like.."
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A Facebook post by Rebecca Hart with a picture of a Pepe the Frog Meme. Pepe has a sad and miserable expression on his face and is wearing trendy looking clothes (a sweater, scarf, and boots) and is crouched down, about to stick a fork in an outlet.…
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@France4Hillary tweets an image of a political cartoon. In the cartoon is Pepe the Frog next to two alligators. One is labeled "Anti-Semitism" and the other "White Nationalism." The wording across the top of the cartoon says: "Another swamp in need…
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Digital Folklore Project 2017 - Avocado Toast
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A wall of art displays during the Concatenation Exhibit in the Tippetts Galleries.
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A section of the Concatenation Exhibit held in the Tippetts and Eccles Galleries.
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Large-format print no. 125 by A.J. Russell entitled "Warner and Whitman's at Echo." The photograph features two families standing near a farmhouse on a farm in rural Utah.
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Large-format print no. 513 by A.J. Russell entitled Paymaster's Car, Blue Creek." The photograph features a crew of railroad workers sitting around and on the paymaster's train car, telegraph wires, and a backdrop of the mountains.
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Large-format print entitled "East and West Shaking Hands." The photograph features the two trains of the Union and Central Pacific lines meeting at Promontory Point with executives and crew members from both lines.
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tereoview photograph #539 from the Union Pacific Railroad collection by A.J. Russell. Photograph features railroad workers laying the last few rails of the road at Promontory Point in Utah. Specifically, the Chinese workers are laying the last of the…
DNO-0047_Mormon workers on a cut in Weber Canyon.jpg
Stereoview photograph #372 by A.J. Russell. The photograph features a group of (probably Mormon) men working on a cut in Weber Canyon.
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Originally a stereoview photograph by A.J. Russell entitled "Looking up the Weber." Numbered as 194. Photograph features a railroad bridge before the entrance of Weber Canyon and a man walking along the tracks.
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Originally a stereoview photograph by A.J. Russell, number 91. Title: "Photographing Under Difficulties." This photograph depicts the Clarence King surveying party in the Uintah mountains, climbing a steep cliff with all of their equipment.
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Originally a stereoview photograph by A.J. Russell. Number 128, titled "Directors of the North Western RR at Echo City." Photograph features men and women on the porch of a farm house with a mountains in the background and a stagecoach in the…
DNO-0046_Promontory Utah.jpg
Stereoview photograph by A.J. Russell entitled "Promontory Utah." Features one man in an otherwise empty frontier town. This stereoview was part of the Union Pacific Rail Road Views collection.
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Stereoview photograph taken by A.J. Russell for the Union Pacific's Railroad Views collection. Photograph is entitled, "Devil's Gate Bridge" and features a train with a car full of men crossing the bridge.
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A map of the Great Platte Valley Route of the Union Pacific Railroad and its connections, produced by land agent O.F. Davis. Captions: "The Highway of Nations. New York, San Francisco." "1,000,000 Acres of Choice Farming Land re now offered for Sale…
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Broadside advertisement for the Union Pacific Railroad as far as it was completed in 1867. Features a woodcut illustration of a train car, lists of amenities, and details about the completed route.
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Stereoview photograph no. 68 in the "Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad" collection by W.H. Jackson. Features one man, John Kupfer Watchmaker and Jeweler's store, several hardware stores, and a painter's shop.
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Stereoview photograph #317 by Alfred Hart for the Central Pacific Railroad collection. It is a photo of railroad workers building the road at the end of the Central Pacific Line when it was on the Humboldt Plains.
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