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| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A mother posing with her seven children in the living room of their home. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Men and a boy examining a prototype "Tractor of the Future" in an exhibit during the St. Cloud combine promotion. Signs hanging around the display read: "L... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of International Harvester's exhibit of agricultural machinery at the Wabash plowing contest. Includes a Farmall 400 tractor (with Electrall?... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A woman stands beside a religious painting (of her own making?). |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Barlow "Chalet of the Golden Fleece," New Glarus, Wisconsin. Home of Edwin Barlow, now city museum. Two women are standing in front of the house. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the Historical Society Library Reading Room taken from the Visitors Gallery. Although undated, the photograph was probably taken shortly after the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | 100-year-old woman, a resident of Muscoda, Wis., sitting at a table, stirring a cup of coffee (?). Newsphoto for the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The Brooklyn Grange parade float in a Labor Day parade. Men and women on the float mimic various household and recreational activities. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | International Model S-120 truck used by Border's Ice Cream for deliveries. A delivery man stands near the passenger door of the truck holding some of the p... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms is seated on his motorcycle with Craig Arms sitting in front of him and Lewis Arms, Jr. behind him. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Joe Dottl standing in the Ideal Body Company on Park Street. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Rice Odell sitting at his desk. A curtain on a window in the background bears the International Harvester Company logo. Odell graduated... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Harold B. Myers, an International Harvester Company Comptroller, looks over papers while sitting at his desk. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Warner Bros. movie "Rebel Without a Cause," featuring Sal Mineo (playing John "Plato" Crawford), James Dean (playing Jim Stark), and N... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Sherry and Lorin Gillett (Sherwin Gillett's adult children) toasting with cocktails. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Unidentified people waiting or conferring, possibly lawyer and clients at a courthouse. |
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