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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 11 26 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the modest customer waiting area at Lemberger Pharmacy. |
| Date: | 11 09 1955 |
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| Description: | A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years. |
| Date: | 06 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool. |
| Date: | 06 03 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of female graduation procession. |
| Date: | 03 29 1958 |
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| Description: | A young boy rings a locomotive bell. Other artifacts of locomotive history are on the table before him with members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Nationa... |
| Date: | 06 18 1989 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of four children relaxing in a wading pool. |
| Date: | 02 12 1963 |
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| Description: | Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised. |
| Date: | 05 19 1989 |
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| Description: | Two young boys in a grocery store figuring out prices of food with a calculator. |
| Date: | 04 23 1963 |
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| Description: | A grandmother with daughter and granddaughter. They are nicely dressed for mother's day. |
| Date: | 11 10 1963 |
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| Description: | A couple that used a "couple computer" that matched preferences choose a record. |
| Date: | 11 10 1963 |
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| Description: | A college male successfully plunges for an apple while a college female looks on. |
| Date: | 04 20 1967 |
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| Description: | High school freshman use vending machines for lunch. |
| Date: | 06 30 1950 |
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| Description: | The 1950 Alice in Dairyland, Virgina Ruth Peterson, posed sitting on a fence after she was chosen for the title from a field of 18 in the final judging at ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Elmer, "husband" of Elsie the Cow, advertising mascot of the Borden Company, is shown with a young woman as he was being readied for participation as one o... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A smiling girl poses with stalks of gladiolas that won the champion ribbon for "Gladiolus Spike," and the first premium ribbon for "Horticulture Plants and... |
| Date: | 09 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Old cars line up to race at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. |
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