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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Fauerbach Brewery Tavern

Date: 04 07 1933
Description: Slightly elevated view of crowd in the Fauerbach Brewery tavern at 651 Williamson Street, with men and women drinking and toasting and celebrating the end ...
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"The Pharmacopeia Comes of Age" Painting

Date: 02 1956
Description: Photograph of a painting titled: "The Pharmacopeia Comes of Age" by the artist Robert Thom. The painting depicts a scene from 1880. Pictured are the notabl...
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U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention

Date: 1970
Description: Pictured are the members of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Board of Trustees, 1960-70, left to right: George Beal (Chair), Adley Nichols (Secretary), Pa...
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U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention

Date: 05 1930
Description: Members of the Board of Trustees from the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, 1930-40. Pictured: (standing) W.B. Day, E.F. Kelly, and W. Bruce Philip. ...
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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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Television for Patients

Date: 1950
Description: Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms.
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Breakfast Club

Date: 11 12 1987
Description: A waitress serves a group of older Italian-American men in a diner.
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Woman Holding Fish

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Description: Alma Reinhardt Taylor, the photographer's wife, holding a large-mouth bass.
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Alexander Legge

Date: 12 03 1930
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) sitting with Miss Florence Melchert, an "entertainment" provided by International Harvester for 4-H Club delegates. Miss Melch...
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Hailing the 5,000,000th International Harvester Tractor

Date: 02 01 1974
Description: Press release photograph of female model, Valerie Robb, posing on the 5,000,000th International Harvester tractor to roll off the assembly line on Feb. 1, ...
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Fancy Wedding Cake

Date: 06 26 1955
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Braatz top off the 26-layer wedding cake that Mrs. Braatz made for their daughter's wedding.
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Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
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Confined to Bed

Date: 08 28 1960
Description: An insurance executive carries on with work after he was hit by a car, dictating letters to his secretary from his hospital bed, with his leg in traction.
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Chief Justice Marvin Rosenberry

Date: 06 15 1935
Description: Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry speaking in the Assembly Chamber during the 10th annual Robert M. La Follette, Sr., memorial ser...
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Santa Claus Mail Box

Date: 11 24
Description: Harry Dimond, general manager of Hills Dry Goods Store & Postmaster Walter Hyland stand on either side of the "Santa Claus Mail Box" placed in Hill's Dry G...
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Christmas Party

Date: 12 14 1931
Description: Group portrait of Leona Wasley's card club's Christmas party, with Aldro Wasley dressed as Santa Claus holding a child.
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Rural Telephone Operator

Date: 11 1954
Description: Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby.
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Tinsel Trees

Date: 1950
Description: A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays.
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Practical Joke

Date: 1950
Description: Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench.

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