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Making Dr. Brown's Cough Balsam

Date: 1896
Description: Workers posing in front of pharmaceutical equipment to demonstrate the making of Dr. Brown's Cough Balsam at Kienth Drugs and Medicines, 608 Mitchell Stree...
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Laboratory Experiment

Date: 1928
Description: Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin.
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Taking a Prescription Order

Date: 11 04 1940
Description: Druggist J.F. Robinson staffs the pharmacy's "Information Desk," ready to take a prescription from a doctor over the telephone. The pharmacy championed t...
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O'Donnell in the Lab

Date: 06 08 1947
Description: Druggist Joseph O' Donnell jots down some notes in his pharmacy's laboratory.
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Dr. Babcock with Butterfat Tester

Date: 1926
Description: Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester.
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Rosenbaum's Prescription Department

Date: 01 01 1947
Description: Druggist Helen Rosenbaum's dispensary.
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Trio of Druggists

Date: 04 30 1948
Description: A trio of pharmacists consult one another about a prescription order.
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Pharmacy Team in Laboratory

Date: 1948
Description: A group of pharmacists consult each other at one of the counters in the laboratory. Pictured are, from left to right: William Hays, Steve Kostyk, Urban Kor...
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Pharmacy Reference Library

Date: 02 08 1941
Description: View showing part of the pharmacist's working library at D.F. Jones' Pharmacy.
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Special Laboratory

Date: 12 08 1941
Description: View showing a portion of a special laboratory in the rear of D.F. Jones' Pharmacy.
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Compounding Prescriptions

Date: 11 26 1940
Description: A trio of druggists busy themselves in the laboratory with compounding materials for patient prescriptions. The pharmacists were employed with "The Pharmac...
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Sterile Solution

Date: 1948
Description: A nurse mixes sterile solution in the pharmacy of St. Joseph's Hospital.
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Large Mortar and Pestle

Date: 1948
Description: A pharmacist compounds materials with a large mortar and pestle in the dispensary of St. Joseph's Hospital.
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Holsher Apothecary Cooler

Date: 11 10 1940
Description: Gilbert Holscher, store owner, investigates the stocks of biologicals in one of the store's 2 refrigerators. The card on top of the refrigerator was used o...
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Gaines' Pharmacy Laboratory

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Pharmacist Joyce Smith Gaines examines a product in her laboratory.
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Mixing Liquids

Date: 1945
Description: Roy Bird Cook mixes liquid medications in his pharmacy's laboratory.
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Measuring Materials

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: Roy Wilkinson measures materials in his laboratory.
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Pharmaceutical Lab Equipment

Date: 10 01 1941
Description: View of the laboratory of Tozer's Pharmacy, showcasing a variety of equipment used by their pharmacists.
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Holscher Pharmacy Laboratory

Date: 11 12 1940
Description: A view of the main prescription preparation counter. The left side was used for eye prescriptions only.
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Helen Rosenbaum

Date: 01 01 1947
Description: Helen Rosenbaum, pharmacist, pauses in her laboratory.

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