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Children Poster Display

Date: 05 19 1969
Description: Four children hold up their winning posters for a competition in a class.
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Story Time

Date: 10 17 1963
Description: A librarian reads a children's book aloud to young boys and girls.
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Newborn Chick

Date: 03 19 1963
Description: Eggbert, the baby chick, waits for his siblings to hatch in a home incubator, under the watchful eyes of a young boy and girl.
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Baking Bread for Communion

Date: 09 25 1963
Description: Elevated view of two women, one pulling loaves of bread from the oven and the other glazing crusts in the church kitchen.
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Wedding Day Car Problems

Date: 06 08 1963
Description: Bride and groom wait in the open convertible that is their transportation to their reception while a mechanic works under the hood.
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Class in Session

Date: 05 01 1963
Description: A female student leads a class of fellow students. She is a member of the Future Teachers of America Club.
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Newborn

Date: 03 18 1963
Description: Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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Milwaukee Soap Box Derby

Date: 08 17 1963
Description: Elevated view of Grand Champion soap box coaster crossing the finish line.
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Cook Out

Date: 09 07 1963
Description: Husband and wife prepare meal on top of a campfire grill.
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Brothers Playing in the Snow

Date: 01 11 1963
Description: Winter scene with two young boys playing in the snow in front of their home. Milwaukee Journal January 12, 1963 original caption: "The same snow tha...
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Jones Island

Date: 1964
Description: Docks at Jones Island with a lone swan swimming. Many large ships and city buildings can be seen in the background.
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Clearing a Path with a Snowblower

Date: 01 12 1963
Description: Winter scene with teenage boy snow blowing the driveway of a house. His letter jacket has "64" on the sleeve. He is also wearing a stocking cap with pom-po...
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Family Style Christmas Dinner

Date: 12 22 1960
Description: Group portrait of several people sitting or standing around a table with a meal displayed on it. All the women, and one man, are folding their hands as if ...
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Green Thumbs Were Put to Work

Date: 05 22 1962
Description: Three women are standing in a forest. One woman is holding the handle of a tool, and the other two are holding seedlings. Caption reads: "Green thumbs were...
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Camp Sidney Cohen Clean-up

Date: 05 22 1962
Description: Women are walking to and from a parked bus, some of them carrying boxes and bags of books. Caption reads: "Mrs. Theodore L. [Ann] Albert, 404 E. Apple Tree...
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Policing the Grounds

Date: 05 22 1962
Description: View of a woman crouching down and pulling weeds from a flower bed and putting them into a bushel basket. Caption reads: "Policing the grounds was the assi...
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The Linen Closet

Date: 05 22 1962
Description: One woman is handing folded linens to another woman while they are standing in a large closet. Caption reads: "The linen closet received a thorough going o...
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Joseph L. Julius

Date: 07 15 1962
Description: A man holding a cane is sitting on a felled tree near the stump. Caption reads: "A huge willow tree is among the trees that have been cut down to make way ...
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Cherry Harvest

Date: 1963
Description: Cherry picking on the Door Peninsula. A man is pouring cherries into boxes from a bucket.
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Cha-Cha-Cha

Date: 1961
Description: A Prairie Chicken performing his Booming Dance.

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