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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Families gathered outside of Werner's Drugstore on annuity pay day. A sign reads "Medicine sold here" in Ho-Chunk, German, and Norwegian. The Ho-Chunk syll... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a costume parade on State Street, at the corner of State Street and Gilman Street. On both sides of the street are drugstores. The one on ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buil... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Sumner's Drugstore, which was established in 1855. From left to right are George "Jud" Stone, Edwin Sumner, and Bert B. Collyer. |
| Date: | 09 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Edward Farber, a prominent Milwaukee druggist, double checks a prescription order on the day before he retired. Farber operated his popular drugstore, loca... |
| Date: | 11 14 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Colorful advertising displays line the counters of this turn-of-the- century drugstore, with rows of glass pharmaceutical bottles filling the shelves behin... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Kimberly & Elwers Drugstore. Pharmaceutical bottles line the shelves on the right side. |
| Date: | 10 1947 |
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| Description: | A pharmacist assists a customer in Joseph Lascoff's Pharmacy, located at 93rd and Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 11 04 1940 |
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| Description: | A busy scene at the Professional Pharmacy. James Robinson, proprietor, stands in front of the prescriptions counter. |
| Date: | 02 08 1941 |
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| Description: | A clerk checks the status of the refrigerated stocks of various biological materials at the D.F. Jones Pharmacy. |
| Date: | 07 02 1942 |
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| Description: | Pharmacist Edward Burke uses a small metal machine to help him make capsules of medicine. A woman is sitting at a table in the background. |
| Date: | 01 21 1935 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Nakoma Country Club directors at the retirement of the clubhouse mortgage. It became the Nakoma Golf Club in 1944. |
| Date: | 11 17 1909 |
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| Description: | Colorized view depicting men and women office workers taking a break in a celebratory mode. Two of the women are taking a sheet off the calendar on the wal... |
| Date: | 04 11 1968 |
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| Description: | Japanese businessmen visit an American manufacturing firm in South Milwaukee and pose inside a huge metal implement. The American firm is Bucyrus-Erie and... |
| Date: | 04 28 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of businessmen and customers watch a board that displays the stock amounts of the American Stock Exchange in a board room. |
| Date: | 06 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Toy distributors for Ideal Toy Corporation introduce a new toy line to dealers. |
| Date: | 05 14 1963 |
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| Description: | Lunar trajectory paths and computations on a blackboard are discussed by employees of Milwaukee's Astronautics, Inc. |
| Date: | 04 17 1964 |
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| Description: | A clerk checks real estate property information in a vast filing system housed in a vault. |
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