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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer speaking at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security, which took place in Buenes Aires. Eva Peron is seated to his left, wearing he... |
| Date: | 02 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the U. S. Pharmacopeial Convention Board of Trustees, 1940-50. Pictured are, left to right: Adley Nichols (Secretary), Morris Fishbein, Patrick Cos... |
| Date: | 05 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Four women playing Mah Jongg, a Chinese game using tiles. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A view of the Library Reading Room in 1955, after the modernization of the 1950s was complete. Most prominent is the division of the room into functional ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a corner of the parlor and the open doorway to the conservatory. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Interior of the parlor. The fireplace is on the left, with a mirror above the mantel. A large window at floor height is on the right behind a chair and a s... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the Lincoln Bedroom. There is a bed on the left, and in the corner of the room is a desk and a chair. The tall windows are arched. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of the second parlor in the Tallman House. The fireplace is on the left, with a mirror above the mantel. A large window at floor height is on the righ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of the second parlor in the Tallman House. On the right is the open doorway to the conservatory. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the parlor of Richards' Octagon House. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The living room with a fireplace in the Cornish miner's cottage on Shake Rag Street called Trelawny. The cottage was restored under the ownership of Robert... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A corner desk and bookshelf in the Cornish miner's cottage on Shake Rag Street called Trelawny. The cottage was restored under the ownership of Robert M. N... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the Historical Society Library Reading Room taken from the Visitors Gallery. Although undated, the photograph was probably taken shortly after the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Lucille Kellar, coordinator of the Historical Society's McCormick Collection, with the new cases for the collection. She is standing outside the north entr... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Thelma Mothershed, one of the Little Rock Nine, reading a book. |
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