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Card Players

Date: 03 20 1965
Description: Several men engaged in a serious card game at the Milwaukee Municipal Social Center, one of several centers devoted to social and recreational programs for...
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La Pharmacie Francaise Museum

Date: 1960
Description: Reproduction of the apothecary shop owned by Louis Dufilho, the first licensed pharmacist in the United States. Louisiana pioneered in regulating the profe...
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U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention

Date: 1960
Description: Members of the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention Board of Trustees, 1950-1960. Pictured are, from left to right: Robert Swain (Chairman), Adley Nichols (Secre...
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August Derleth in his Office

Date: 1965
Description: Office of author August Derleth, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio's (WVLR) unofficial consultant on the history of the Sauk-Prairie area. Derleth's novels and s...
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Scrabble Game

Date: 04 11 1965
Description: A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist.
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School Project

Date: 04 22 1967
Description: Two junior high students work on a project that requires making a vocal recording.
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Future Drafters

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: High school boys in an industrial drafting class using drafting machines and compasses.
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Senior Citizens Card Game

Date: 09 10 1968
Description: Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center.
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The Grill Room

Date: 05 08 1964
Description: A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business.
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Tea Party

Date: 05 05 1963
Description: Mother pouring tea for her twins at the mother and daughter tea, sponsored by the Brookfield Woman's Club.
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Story Time

Date: 09 26 1967
Description: Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on.
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Suitcases

Date: 11 12 1967
Description: Women unpack their suitcases at rest home.
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SSOC Continuations Committee Meeting

Date: 04 1964
Description: Founding members of the Southern Students Organizing Committee (SSOC) at a committee meeting, discussing ways to organize white students in the South to pr...
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Proxmire and President Lyndon Baines Johnson

Date: 09 01 1967
Description: Senator William Proxmire meeting with President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), in the Oval Office at the White House. The third person in the photograph, wh...
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Paul Bunyan Room — Memorial Union

Date: 09 14 1968
Description: View through doorway of people relaxing at the Memorial Union in the Paul Bunyan room.
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Lucian M. & Mary E. Hanks House, Bedroom

Date: 07 20 1960
Description: Bedroom of Sybil A. Hanks in Lucian M. Hanks house, 525 Wisconsin Avenue, with a quilt on the bed.
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Gorman at AFL-CIO Convention

Date: 1969
Description: Patrick Gorman, president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, at the 1969 AFL-CIO convention. Gorman is seated at a table with other leade...
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Contract Bargaining

Date: 1961
Description: Heated contract negotiations of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America.
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Condiments on a Table

Date: 1969
Description: Various condiments sit atop a table near a decorative railing at what appears to be a restaurant.
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Empty Coca-Cola Bottles

Date: 1969
Description: A group of Coca-Cola and other glass bottles are gathered in a tray on top of a table.

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