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State Street from 200 Block

Date: 1929
Description: State Street view looking toward the University of Wisconsin, with the 200 block in the foreground. The marquee for the Capitol Theatre reads "'Jealousy,' ...
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Oxygen Delivery

Date: 11 04 1940
Description: James Robinson and E. Newton of the Professional Pharmacy prepare to load a Linde oxygen tank for home delivery.
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Rennebohm Drug Store Employees

Date: 06 13 1944
Description: Employees of Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, photographed in front of the store. The majority of the employees are waitresses. War bond posters ...
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Consulting with a Pharmacist

Date: 1955
Description: In this scene from "Design For Life", Contractor Saunders (right), discusses with Pharmacist Robinson (Butler Hixon) the career his son Dale (David Bain), ...
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Filming "Design for Life"

Date: 1955
Description: The camera moves in on a retail pharmacy scene in "Design for Life", a film produced by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American F...
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Scene from "Design for Life"

Date: 1955
Description: Friendly counsel on pharmaceutical salesmanship is offered a prospective pharmacy student Dale Saunders (David Bain) by Sales Representative Randall (Art G...
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Scene from "Time for Tomorrow"

Date: 1955
Description: Women, as well as men, can find a rewarding career in hospital pharmacy, as depicted here in a shot from "Time for Tomorrow", a film produced by the Americ...
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Still from "Time for Tomorrow"

Date: 1955
Description: A professor checks a prescription prepared by a pharmacy student in this lab scene from "Time for Tomorrow". Women, as well as men, can find a rewarding ca...
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Businesses on North Main Street

Date: 1950
Description: View of some of the businesses on North Main Street, including the Strand Theater and Olk Drugs.
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Drug Store Statue

Date: 1940
Description: A small dog stands beside a large statue (appears to be carved out of wood) advertising Pompy Cigars, outside of a drugstore.
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Trader Horn Window Display

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: Walgreen's window, 30-32 E. Mifflin Street, advertising the movie "Trader Horn," with a poster and copies of the book on display.
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Orpheum Advertisement in Window

Date: 07 31 1930
Description: Orpheum advertisement for "The Sap from Syracuse", and a Capitol Theatre advertisement for "Let Us Be Gay" in Collyer's Pharmacy window in the Mayer Buildi...
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Orpheum Advertisement in Window

Date: 07 31 1930
Description: Orpheum advertisement for "The Sap from Syracuse," and a Capitol Theatre advertisement for "Let Us Be Gay" in Collyer's Pharmacy window in the Mayer Buildi...
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Strand Theatre

Date: 05 21 1930
Description: Strand Theater, with marquee advertising Warner Baxter and Carol Lombard in "The Arizona Kid," and Collyer's Pharmacy, Kinney Shoes, and a Heinz billboard.
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Family Breakfast at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A family of four waits for their breakfast to be served at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 4 restaurant in the Hilldale Shopping Center, 702 N. Midvale Blvd. ...
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Man Driving Advertising Cart on First Street

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Description: A "cart before the horse" rig advertising the "A.F. Werner, Bargains in Everything, Black River Falls, Wis.", with a man wearing a fake bushy beard and hol...
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Two Bands on Main Street

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Description: Band in two lines, facing each other, on Main Street in front of the A.F. Werner Drugstore.
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Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy

Date: 1938
Description: A cooler sits in Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy surrounded by advertisements, seeds, hygiene products, and magazines. A sign above the cooler reads "Our Beer...
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Rudolf Pharmacy, Cafe and Hotel

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Description: The Rudolf Pharmacy, Cafe and Hotel. Business signs read: "Rudolf Pharmacy" "Dr. G.H. Hansen Dentist," "Rex," "Herradura and Plantation Co.," "Hotel Rudolf...
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Brewery Gulch

Date: 1920
Description: Storefronts line the main streets in Brewery Gulch. Paramount Pictures Theater can be seen in the foreground.

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