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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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Woman Using Sewing Machine

Date: 1955
Description: Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background.
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Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown

Date: 1955
Description: Alice in Dairyland for 1955, Barbara Brown, milking a cow by hand.
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Woman and Religious Painting

Date: 1955
Description: A woman stands beside a religious painting (of her own making?).
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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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Muscoda Woman

Date: 1955
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.
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"Rebel Without a Cause" Movie Still

Date: 1955
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...
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Lorin and Sherry Gillette

Date: 1955
Description: Sherry and Lorin Gillett (Sherwin Gillett's adult children) toasting with cocktails.
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Children Examining a Pocket

Date: 1955
Description: Three children examining the contents of an apron pouch.
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Nelson Cruikshank with Members of the Advisory Council on Social Security

Date: 1955
Description: Members of the Advisory Council on Social Security, which has just completed a review of the social security program and submitted recommendations for impr...
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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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The Plotters

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of four women sitting, and one man standing, around a large map of northeast Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The women are wearing ...
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Injured Dog

Date: 1955
Description: Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1955(?). Dog injured in traffic and care by Dane County Humane Shelter. Child playing with bandaged dog."

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