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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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Prison Cook Preparing Food

Date: 03 26 1968
Description: Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates.
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Bert Williams

Date: 1921
Description: White Studio portrait of vaudevillian Bert Williams.
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Algerian Bedouin Boy

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Bedouin boy with a soldier. The boy is pledging that he will kill his father "with joy" if the father should serve the French forces in the gue...
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Girl Scouts Making Punch

Date: 11 14 1966
Description: African American junior Girl Scouts pouring fruit juice into a punch bowl as they prepare to entertain their parents.
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Flipping Pancakes

Date: 06 11 1989
Description: Man flipping pancakes at "farm breakfast" as part of "June is Dairy Month" promotion in Washington County.
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Pabst Beer Kettle

Date: 08 15 1984
Description: Richard A. Schulz is checking a kettle of beer brewing at the Pabst Brewery.
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Baker and Bread

Date: 05 14 1964
Description: A baker removes multiple loaves of bread from the oven for consumption in both bakery and restaurant.
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Department Store

Date: 11 30 1966
Description: Sears Roebuck department store interior.
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Bowling

Date: 02 13 1969
Description: The Wonder Bread team, an all-female bowling team getting ready to compete.
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Beating the Bug

Date: 12 13 1968
Description: A firefighter gets a flu shot made available to city workers in the lobby of the municipal building to avoid contracting the Hong Kong flu.
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Christmas Returns

Date: 12 26 1982
Description: A Target retail store is flooded with customers returning Christmas gifts.
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Post Office

Date: 01 13 1968
Description: Post Office workers in mail room.
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Meat Packing

Date: 08 30 1965
Description: Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper.
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Men's Fashions

Date: 12 18 1966
Description: A man models what was touted as the latest styles for men.
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Pie in the Face

Date: 12 10 1968
Description: Roland Sieg wiping pie from his face while smiling, after someone threw enough ping pong balls in a bucket to win a chance to hit him with a pie at a carni...
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Railroad Mail Car

Date: 11 03 1967
Description: Workers sort mail into bins in a railroad mail car.
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Cecily Weaver Teaching Bridge

Date: 11 22 1932
Description: Cecily Weaver teaching bridge and the use of the Fulton Shur-Win Bidder to a table of four women. Sitting left to right are: Esther Hermsen, Inger Emery, G...
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Parking Meters for Sale

Date: 10 04 1983
Description: A man looks over parking meters that are some of the items for sale at the first Milwaukee County Recycling Center sale.
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Cook's Choice

Date: 03 19 1964
Description: A chef wearing a toque removes a roast from the oven.

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