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Card Players

Date: 03 20 1965
Description: Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for...
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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Janke

Date: 11 14 1957
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Janke taking care of last minute details in their prescription department before closing their drugstore's doors at 1658 W. Hopkins permanentl...
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Woman with Dollhouse

Date: 11 14 1955
Description: Woman making a small adjustment to an interior room in a dollhouse.
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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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Scrabble Game

Date: 04 11 1965
Description: A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist.
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Senior Citizens Card Game

Date: 09 10 1968
Description: Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center.
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Mother's Day

Date: 04 23 1963
Description: A grandmother with daughter and granddaughter. They are nicely dressed for mother's day.
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Telegraph Operator

Date: 09 27 1956
Description: Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years.
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Relaxing in the Barber Chair

Date: 06 1971
Description: Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop.
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Campaign Cupcakes

Date: 10 10 1956
Description: A young woman and an elderly woman are smiling at each other over a tray filled with cupcakes decorated with "IKE in '56" campaign buttons and tiny America...
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Robert Tehan

Date: 02 29 1968
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Robert Tehan in a suit and necktie.
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Milwaukee Home for Aged Lutherans Piano Player

Date: 1967
Description: Miss Lydia Henie, 76 years old, playing the piano in the devotional room of the Home for Aged Lutherans, 7500 West North Avenue.
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Worker at Milwaukee Public Library

Date: 1958
Description: Construction worker at a conference on economic problems at the Milwaukee Public Library. The subject is Albert Pearson.
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Portrait of John Bissett

Date: 1957
Description: Quarter-length portrait of a middle-aged man with a flower in his lapel. The subject is John Bissett, 900 Emerson Avenue, South Milwaukee.
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Ladies Playing Cards

Date: 07 1963
Description: Group of women playing cards while wearing hats and pearls.
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Two Elderly Women in Fur

Date: 1963
Description: Two elderly women at a reception at the Pabst Theater.
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Family Style Christmas Dinner

Date: 12 22 1960
Description: Group portrait of several people sitting or standing around a table with a meal displayed on it. All the women, and one man, are folding their hands as if ...
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Hawaiian Night, Sky-View Nursing Home

Date: 03 29 1962
Description: Three women with leis around their necks. Caption reads: "It was Hawaiian night Wednesday for patients at the Sky-View nursing home, 901 S. 3rd St. Mrs. Ca...
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Ann Marks and Harry Gallau

Date: 09 25 1989
Description: An elderly couple are dancing together. Both of them are wearing crowns, and the woman is holding a cane. To the left of them a band is playing. Caption re...
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A Happy Tune

Date: 01 19 1969
Description: Several people are smiling and watching a woman playing a piano. Caption reads: "A HAPPY TUNE — Mrs. Earer Turner played spirituals and jazz for a group of...

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