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Family in their Living Room

Date: 1955
Description: Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set.
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Consulting with a Pharmacist

Date: 1955
Description: In this scene from "Design For Life", Contractor Saunders (right), discusses with Pharmacist Robinson (Butler Hixon) the career his son Dale (David Bain), ...
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Filming "Design for Life"

Date: 1955
Description: The camera moves in on a retail pharmacy scene in "Design for Life", a film produced by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American F...
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Scene from "Design for Life"

Date: 1955
Description: Friendly counsel on pharmaceutical salesmanship is offered a prospective pharmacy student Dale Saunders (David Bain) by Sales Representative Randall (Art G...
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Scene from "Time for Tomorrow"

Date: 1955
Description: Women, as well as men, can find a rewarding career in hospital pharmacy, as depicted here in a shot from "Time for Tomorrow", a film produced by the Americ...
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Francke at Exhibit

Date: 1955
Description: Pharmacist Donald Francke and a colleague examine a pictorial exhibit titled "Pharmacy's History: As an Organized, Active Force, Internationally". The exh...
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Vending Machines

Date: 1955
Description: Vending and dispensing machines display. Banner above also reads: (Increased dairy sales and better health for your community."
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Library Reading Room

Date: 1955
Description: A view of the Library Reading Room in 1955, after the modernization of the 1950s was complete. Most prominent is the division of the room into functional ...
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Grand Army Home

Date: 1955
Description: A display of military memorabilia at the Grand Army Home. Caption reads: "Museum - Grand Army Home - King, Wis".
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Johnson Wax Company

Date: 1955
Description: Interior hallway view of the Johnson Wax Co. building.
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Maynard Brichford

Date: 1955
Description: Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive...
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Historical Library Reading Room

Date: 1955
Description: View of the Historical Society Library Reading Room taken from the Visitors Gallery. Although undated, the photograph was probably taken shortly after the...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room

Date: 1955
Description: Historical Society Library Reading Room and the Visitors Gallery after their modernization during the mid-1950s. Prominent among the visible changes are a...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Library

Date: 1955
Description: Alternate view of the modernization of the Historical Society Library Reading Room completed in the mid-1950s. Most prominent here is the division of the ...
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Lucille Kellar

Date: 1955
Description: Lucille Kellar, coordinator of the Historical Society's McCormick Collection, with the new cases for the collection. She is standing outside the north entr...
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Farewell to Belfrage

Date: 1955
Description: Farewell party for Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" at the newspaper's office. Identified in the crowd is Paul Robeson, a longtime supporter of t...
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Coonskin Haircut

Date: 1955
Description: Composite photograph of a boy and his barber. The front view shows the boy holding a coonskin cap popularized at the time by the Davy Crockett television p...
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Joe Dottl at The Ideal Body Company

Date: 1955
Description: Joe Dottl standing in the Ideal Body Company on Park Street.
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Robert Gard

Date: 1955
Description: Informal portrait of Robert Gard holding his glasses in one hand and reading his book Grassroots Theater held in the other hand.
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Signe Skott Cooper and Mary Herb

Date: 1955
Description: Mary Herb (left), the Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association President and Signe Skott Cooper (right), Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association Adv...

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