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Catalog Shopper

Date: 11 20 1988
Description: Mail-order shopper with too many choices ponders her next purchase.
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Men Reading Agricultural Education Material

Date: 1915
Description: Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural...
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Ducks Unlimited Dinner

Date: 02 03 1959
Description: 420 men turned out for the annual Ducks Unlimited dinner at Club Chanticleer. Ducks Unlimited was founded in 1938 by persons interested in wildlife conser...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson Farm Jingles

Date: 1900
Description: Front cover of a catalog for Emerson Farm Implements. Features an illustration on the front in red, black and orange, of an older man reading an Emerson ca...
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Newton Minow at University of Pennsylvania

Date: 02 28 1963
Description: Newton Minow, center, standing between two men, visits the Annenberg School of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Ellen Nicholson, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part o...
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Orchard Ridge Sixth Graders Read and Discuss "A Christmas Carol"

Date: 12 09 1965
Description: Jacklynn Dulek, Orchard Ridge School sixth grader, discusses "A Christmas Carol" with her classmates after they read the Charles Dickens classic as part of...
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Portrait of Postal Carrier Carl Wagner

Date: 1972
Description: Portrait of the postal carrier Carl Wagner on the porch of Sid's house, displaying a Life magazine in his arms, and holding a stack of mail.
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnositc Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gay Ladies Mrs. H.C. Jackson (4014 Council Crest) holding a Butterick magazine, and Mrs. Walter Price (3825 Council Crest) (reflected in mirror)...
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Selling The Watchtower

Date: 1945
Description: A group of Jehovah's Witnesses selling copies of The Watchtower magazine. Standing together on a sidewalk are two women, two men, a girl and a boy. ...
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Sons of Norway District Convention

Date: 05 22 1958
Description: Some of the "advance guard" for the Sons of Norway district convention at Hotel Loraine. Left to right are: Bernard Jacobson, Evanston, Illinois, district ...
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Annual Observance of World Community Day

Date: 10 02 1958
Description: Madison church women plan to join United Church Women throughout the world to observe World Community Day. The service is held at the First Evangelical Uni...

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