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Early Chicago Drugstore

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Description: Museum exhibit for the Chicago Historical Society depicting what a typical early Chicago drugstore looked like.
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Employees at Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit

Date: 08 25 1936
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Historical Society employees Dawn Young and Ray Lamb who are staffing the museum's historical drugstore exhibit.
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Digitalis Exhibit

Date: 05 15 1935
Description: View of a U.S. Pharmacopeia Exhibit about a class of medications called 'digitalis' at the annual Philadelphia on Parade. Digitalis medicines are used to i...
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Locomotive Artifacts

Date: 03 29 1958
Description: A young boy rings a locomotive bell. Other artifacts of locomotive history are on the table before him with members of the Milwaukee chapter of the Nationa...
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Francke at Exhibit

Date: 1955
Description: Pharmacist Donald Francke and a colleague examine a pictorial exhibit titled "Pharmacy's History: As an Organized, Active Force, Internationally". The exh...
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Workers at a Refreshment Stand

Date: 1911
Description: Three workers with barrels of drinks inside a refreshment booth decorated with stars and stripes. The men were preparing to serve drinks at an Internationa...
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Swedish Exhibition of McCormick Farm Machinery

Date: 1899
Description: Employees of a McCormick dealership and family members standing in a pavilion with a display of McCormick farm machinery. A crowd is pressed up against the...
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International Harvester Manager with Iowa Governor Herring

Date: 11 04 1935
Description: International Harvester assistant manager W.A. Riggs pointing out the features of an International truck to Iowa Governor Clyde Herring, possibly in the di...
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Visitors Inside IHC Diesel Engine Exhibit Trailer

Date: 05 25 1938
Description: Visitors examining machinery displays in International Harvester's touring diesel engine exhibit.
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Eddie Cantor on an International TD-18 Tractor

Date: 04 18 1939
Description: Eddie Cantor mugging on an International TD-18 diesel crawler tractor at the National Roadbuilders Show. Mr. Gainsford of the Los Angeles branch house is p...
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War Products Exhibit at Indianapolis Works

Date: 1942
Description: Storefront war products exhibit at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. A sign on the window reads: "Mud pies. Today is serious business! This fou...
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Astronaut Exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport

Date: 1965
Description: A traveling display about the NASA manned space program on exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport. Included in the exhibit is a model of a space capsule and a ...
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Rock Wool Insulation Display

Date: 04 17 1937
Description: Three men and a woman looking at display materials in the R.H. and E.H. Carpenter, Inc. exhibit of Rock Wool insulation at the Home Show. Text on back of p...
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Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Exhibit

Date: 05 03 1934
Description: Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy exhibit at the Madison Home Show. "Producing Vitamin D milk."
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Majestic Radio Sales Co. Booth

Date: 08 20 1930
Description: Four salesman are standing in the Majestic Radio Sales Co., located at 122 E. Washington Avenue, booth at the Dane County Fair.
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Gfroerer & Son's Booth at ESBMA Fall Festival

Date: 08 11 1929
Description: Gfroerer & Son's Independent Grocer's Alliance of America. (I.G.A.) grocery store booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. Ther...
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Kohler Opens History Exhibit

Date: 10 08 1955
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., cuts a ribbon to open the "They Did It Themselves: 50 Years Ago" exhibit at the State Historical Society. Mrs. Vincent W. K...
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School Architecture Exhibit

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: John J. Flad, architect, and John Guy Fowlkes, professor of education at the University of Wisconsin, viewing the exhibit "Modern Architecture for Modern S...
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International Harvester Farm Exhibit

Date: 06 1975
Description: Men, women and children walk through the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. The exhibit included a tractor and the "Agrisphere",...
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Mrs. Walter Frautschi and Professor Warner Taylor

Date: 02 28 1945
Description: Mrs. Walter (Dorothy) Frautschi, representing the Madison Art Association, and Professor Warner Taylor, viewing the photographic exhibition at the State Hi...

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