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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card. A girl is taking a bath in a wooden tub full of bubbles with a towel held in front of her. A large heart is in the background... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card. A heart appears in the center with the text: "I'd sure like to - 'Make Some Time' with you, Valentine!" A girl's face is in t... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Robert E. Bodoh checks on the condition of a hive by opening it using smoke to calm the bees. Bodoh wears a protective hat with mesh veil. Several other hi... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Robert E. Bodoh kneels next to a shipment of pollen. Bodoh, in a protective beekeeper hat, holds a fist-full of pollen in his hand. |
| 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: | Marine and bayonet silhouetted in a fiery blast of napalm. Taken during a napalm testing maneuver at Camp Pendleton. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Professor Kenneth Weckel of the University of Wisconsin demonstrates his new method of preserving and canning cranberries whole without smashing them. The ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "This is a 1950 Studebaker. Critics dubbed it a 'two row corn picker!'" |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "Cows graze on the William Engman farm south of Theresa. The new water tower, at right, is being constructed." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "This photo, taken by the light of the full moon, shows coon hunter Alfred 'Butch' Muche patiently waiting for his fellow hunters. Kodak Super XX film was ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "Cows were nosy when a camera was set up in a field near Theresa." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "Cows were nosy when a camera was set up in a field near Theresa." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | "Workers put the finishing touches on the new water tower." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Cary Grant and Grace Kelly are cheek to cheek in this close-up publicity still for "To Catch a Thief" (Paramount 1955). |
| 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: | Postcard of the Pabst Brewery showing an elevated view of men working near the copper kettles in a vaulted room. There is a large, stained glass window on ... |
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