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Operating Theater

Date: 1902
Description: Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College.
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Cheerleaders Rally the Crowd

Date: 1957
Description: Spectators at a high school basketball game are urged to support the team by jumping cheerleaders.
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Wells Printing Company

Date: 03 04 1937
Description: Wells Printing Company's new plant interior. There are many pieces of letterpress equipment; type cabinets, a composing stone with set type on it and a pro...
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San Xavier Mission Church Entrance

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Description: An interior view of the San Xavier Del Bac Mission church entrance, near Tucson.
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Union Election

Date: 02 06 1973
Description: Local P-28 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union votes for their officers.
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Bargaining Pointers

Date: 08 1965
Description: The bargaining team for a newly-recognized United Packinghouse Workers local at the Agar Packing Company talk over strategy for their first contract talks ...
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Automatic Foul Detector

Date: 11 12 1944
Description: Emil Andel of the American Bowling Congress demonstrates an automatic foul detector in a bowling alley.
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Agriculture Students

Date: 1915
Description: Group of male and female students seated at desks in the assembly room of the School of Agriculture.
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Students Making Stenciled Charts

Date: 02 1916
Description: Young students making stenciled charts with teacher J.W. Page at the Morton Grove School. Original caption reads: "Another view of a school making junior c...
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Agent Arresting Three Women and One Man

Date: 08 04 1942
Description: A state agent arrests three women and one man, a bartender, in Jeanne's Chateau. A sweeping raid was staged on many Hurley area establishments. The arrest ...
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At the Barrel In

Date: 07 01 1977
Description: Barrel In customers toasted the old owner, Margaret Udovc, and new owner, John Lacher, as the two shook hands.
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Neighborhood House Album: Women's Sewing Group

Date: 1926
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of women cutting patterns, sewing by hand and machine, pressing a garment, and checking the ...
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Vel Phillips and Two Men

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Description: Vel Phillips chats with two men. She is wearing a dress, sweater and scarf and is holding papers and roses in one arm. The men are wearing plaid suits and ...
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"Recitation Room" at Downer College

Date: 1891
Description: "Recitation Room" at Downer College.
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Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter

Date: 1978
Description: Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter talk animatedly with a woman. This photograph is dedicated to Wilbur by Martha McSteen, the Dallas Regional Commissioner f...
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Nelson Cruikshank and Wilbur J. Cohen

Date: 12 01 1972
Description: The First Distinguished Citizen Award of the National Consumers League was given to Nelson H. Cruikshank, president of the American Federation of Labor (AF...
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Governor Albert G. Schmedeman with Guests

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Description: Governor Albert Schmedeman sits at his desk for a group portrait. To his right stand three men wearing suits, and to Schmedeman's left stand five women wea...
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3rd Anniversary, Local #174 International Laundry Workers

Date: 09 03 1937
Description: View of a large group of people sitting and standing in a large room. A floral bouquet and a curtain divider are in the foreground.
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Wisconsin Potato Growers Association

Date: 1913
Description: Exhibition of potatoes. The sign on the far right over a bin of potato's reads: "Green Mountain, grown by S.J. Uhrenholdt, Hayward, Sawyer County, Listed w...

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