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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: | Two men sitting in the stands review the Milwaukee Braves official program during a game. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Pharmacist Donald Francke and a colleague examine a pictorial exhibit titled "Pharmacy's History: As an Organized, Active Force, Internationally". The exh... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Robert Fischelis at Delegate's Entrance, Hunter College. He served as an advisor to the American delegation to the Instructional Health Conference, which b... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Vending and dispensing machines display. Banner above also reads: (Increased dairy sales and better health for your community." |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Illinois central route. The UW Fieldhouse is visible in the lower right of the image. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | West Doty Street, from Monona Avenue looking toward South Carroll Street, showing the back side of Madison Newspapers, Inc. The building was added on to in... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Kaukauna Public Library. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A display of military memorabilia at the Grand Army Home. Caption reads: "Museum - Grand Army Home - King, Wis". |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| 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: | 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: | Lecture hall/classroom setting with a podium and a chalkboard in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Bacteriology Laboratory building. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A Farmall 100 tractor on display in a showroom. The showroom may have been at the International Harvester headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett Studio Christmas portrait of two women, Miriam and Ruth, daughters of H.H. Bennett, and one man, Oliver Reese, posed with many cameras, some o... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of Middleton. In the foreground is a baseball field, and beyond are houses, woods, fields, and Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card. A girl and a boy are holding hands. A red heart is in the background. The text reads: "Oh, Valentine I'm in a 'Stew,' I'm Sim... |
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