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WMAQ Radio Station

Date: 1924
Description: Interior of WMAQ Radio Station with Chief Engineer Donald Weller standing.
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Family in their Living Room

Date: 1955
Description: Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set.
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Students Conducting Scientific Research

Date: 1900
Description: Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed.
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Father with Three Children

Date: 05 1958
Description: A father, Peter Froeming, watching as his three children George, Robert, and Roseann are playing with wooden blocks, with a small toy canoe in the foregrou...
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La Pharmacie Francaise Museum

Date: 1960
Description: Reproduction of the apothecary shop owned by Louis Dufilho, the first licensed pharmacist in the United States. Louisiana pioneered in regulating the profe...
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Children Playing in Bedroom

Date: 02 10 1955
Description: Elevated view of boy sitting on a toy fire engine, another boy dressed as a cowboy, and a girl with a toy cash register playing in the bedroom.
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Law Office

Date: 1894
Description: Patent attorney Charles L. Goss (seated), with clerk Arthur Muerless in the law offices of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas.
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Stenographers

Date: 1894
Description: Stenographers at the law firm of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas.
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Office Environment

Date: 1926
Description: A businessman and his secretary at the desk in his office.
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Pioneer Living Room

Date: 
Description: A collection of pioneer household articles arranged in a living room.
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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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Operators

Date: 10 22 1957
Description: Female telephone operators busy at work.
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Vote Recording Machine

Date: 1919
Description: Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Pet Hamsters

Date: 03 17 1955
Description: A boy plays with his pet rodents (hamsters).
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19th Century Dorm Room

Date: 05 1899
Description: A student studies in his dorm room.
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Community Polio Vaccine

Date: 
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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Election Booths and Volunteers

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Description: Elevated view of a gymnasium that has been converted into a place where citizens can vote on election day.
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Office Supplies Store

Date: 06 22 1927
Description: The interior of the first floor of Blied Office Supplies Store. Three men and a women are behind counters and a desk.
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Beauty Class

Date: 1927
Description: A beauty culture class in session.

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