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Pharmacy Class, U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Students from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School perform practical experiments for the chemistry phase of their course. The officer in charge of th...
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First Aid Instruction, U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: One member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps class demonstrates the method of treating a leg injury while fellow classmen look on and make notes. The ...
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Mr. Bones

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: The class of U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School Pharmacists' Mates-to-be is introduced to the skeleton of the human body as part of their studies of an...
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Aqua Pura

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: This student of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School is carefully measuring out a quantity of distilled water for a prescription. Distilled water is ...
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Markham Waves to the Crowd

Date: 09 1936
Description: Beryl Markham, a former Kenyan bush pilot, waves to the crowd as she arrives at Floyd Bennett Field in New York. She had just completed the first solo east...
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"Wrong Way" Corrigan

Date: 08 09 1938
Description: Douglas Corrigan examining a compass with General Evan Humphreys after Corrigan "mistakenly" flew from New York to Ireland. Corrigan claimed that he had re...
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Wright Flyer in England

Date: 1938
Description: After his "mistaken" trans-Atlantic flight to Great Britain, Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan visited the original 1903 Wright Flyer then on display at the Sci...
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La Follette and Wheeler

Date: 07 20 1924
Description: Republican Senator and independent, third-party presidential candidate, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., chats with Senator Burton K. Wheeler, a Democratic sena...
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Philip and Robert M. La Follette, Jr.

Date: 1937
Description: Philip and Robert La Follette, Jr., standing on a porch (the White House?), in long coats.
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Red Progress Days Demonstration with 5488 and 6588

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Description: Color photograph of what may be a Red Power Days demonstration with a 5488 tractor and a 6588 tractor. Onlookers are standing in the background.
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Sophie Rosenberg and her Grandsons

Date: 1954
Description: After their parents' arrest, Robert (left) and Michael Rosenberg had no settled home. They were eventually placed with Abel and Anne Meeropol under the pro...
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Sailor and Women with Ice Cream Cones

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Description: Three women in white dresses sit on a box nest to a young sailor sitting on a chair. They are all eating ice cream cones.
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Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Stockade

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption reads: "Citizens of Mosinee who could not show proper credentials were thrown into the stockade. Photo shows women pleading for food as armed guard...
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Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Propaganda Films

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption reads: "Simulated Communist Control-The local movie theater is seized by Communist authorities and pictures confiscated with Communist dominated fi...
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Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Rationing

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption on back reads: "All foodstuffs is confiscated by Red authorities and rationed to the citizens. Mrs. Delbert Bauer is shown as she gets her cup of P...
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Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Red Raid

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption reads: "Simulated Communist seizure--Editor Francis Schweinler, (Left) of the local paper is seized by Communist Commisar[sic] Joseph Kornfeder as ...
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Pearl White and Virginia Chang

Date: 07 03 1936
Description: Pearl White welcomed to Shanghai by Virginia Chang, the daughter of the Chinese minster to Chile. Both women are dressed very nicely.

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