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Community Polio Vaccine

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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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Graduate Blowing Bubbles

Date: 05 21 1989
Description: Marquette University graduate blowing bubbles before his graduation ceremony at the Bradley Center.
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Sculptor Jo Davidson with La Follette Statue

Date: 1929
Description: Sculptor Jo Davidson standing next to his larger than life statue of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. The statue was presented to the National Statuary ...
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Train Wreck

Date: 03 20 1956
Description: Elevated view of railroad cars laying across and around railroad tracks while workers look on and contemplate how to clean up the massive mess caused by th...
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The Riesen Family

Date: 05 28 1955
Description: The Riesen family, John, Jeanne, Linda and Jon, playing in their home.
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Shooting a Refrigerator Advertisement

Date: 07 31 1950
Description: A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising.
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The Boardroom

Date: 1951
Description: Men in suits are sitting around an oval-shaped table while another man with his back to the camera gives a presentation.
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Men Sewing

Date: 01 08 1956
Description: Men sew as a joke at a party for a prospective bridegroom. Jack Bayliss, with bow tie, is facing the camera.
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Fishing Boat on the Lake

Date: 08 29 1956
Description: View from shoreline of boaters sitting in silhouette beyond a pier on a lake.
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Police Strategy Session

Date: 11 21 1956
Description: Uniformed police officers looking over a laid out map with potential escape routes.
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Punch Pressing Handles

Date: 11 27 1967
Description: A machinist running a punch press at Res Manufacturing Company.
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Maitland of Milwaukee

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Lester Maitland, who was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot from Milwaukee who served as aide to General Billy Mitchell during th...
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Ticket Sales Statistics

Date: 03 07 1955
Description: Men looking over charts at a Boy Scout circus ticket sales meeting.
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Fancy Wedding Cake

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Braatz top off the 26-layer wedding cake that Mrs. Braatz made for their daughter's wedding.
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Caning Chairs

Date: 10 17 1968
Description: An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged.
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Carving the Turkey

Date: 11 25 1965
Description: A man takes pleasure in the carving of the Thanksgiving turkey, with other food items in the foreground and vending machines behind him.
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Classroom Valentines

Date: 01 30 1958
Description: A teacher answers a student's question as the other students cut hearts from construction paper to make valentine cards.
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Hardware Sales

Date: 12 19 1962
Description: Hilgendorf's Hardware store clerk showing a saw to a customer.
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Baiting the Hook

Date: 07 27 1941
Description: An elderly man looking blissful, sitting in a boat getting ready to cast his line.
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Men's Fashions

Date: 12 18 1966
Description: A man models what was touted as the latest styles for men.

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