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Entering the Uranium Tunnel

Date: 1954
Description: Woman on crutches entering the front office of the uranium tunnel to receive a uranium treatment. Several men sitting in front of the storefront on benches...
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Traveling Medicine Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic.
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Ott's Drugstore

Date: 1904
Description: Interior view of Ott's Drugstore which was located at 21 North Pinckney Street.
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Sumner's Drugstore

Date: 1905
Description: Interior view of Sumner's Drugstore, which was established in 1855. From left to right are George "Jud" Stone, Edwin Sumner, and Bert B. Collyer.
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Charles F. Tompkins Drugstore

Date: 1919
Description: Panoramic view showcasing impressive candy displays and a soda fountain in Tompkin's Drugstore on 63rd street.
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Olaf Noer Drugstore

Date: 1920
Description: Brick building containing the Olaf Noer Drugstore. A man (presumably Mr. Noer himself) poses in the doorway.
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Sumner's Drugstore

Date: 1910
Description: Mr. Sumner stands behind his drugstore's well-stocked candy counters.
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Watertown Rexall Drug

Date: 1909
Description: Colorful advertising displays line the counters of this turn-of-the- century drugstore, with rows of glass pharmaceutical bottles filling the shelves behin...
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Kimberly and Elwers Drugstore

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of the Kimberly & Elwers Drugstore. Pharmaceutical bottles line the shelves on the right side.
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McCandless Pharmacy Prescription Area

Date: 05 12 1949
Description: McCandless and assistant peek out from behind the prescription department window in the rear of the store.
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Druggist and Scale

Date: 04 21 1942
Description: Druggist Stanley Meyers pauses while weighing a prescription on the pharmacy's scale.
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Druggists at Work

Date: 10 17 1946
Description: A trio of druggists busy themselves in the dispensary of Richards Brothers' Pharmacy.
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Oxygen Therapy Department

Date: 08 22 1941
Description: Thomas Tesiero poses with the tanks in Tesiero's Pharmacy's oxygen therapy department.
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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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Using the Scale

Date: 04 15 1949
Description: Two pharmacists behind the prescription counter check the scale at the Pekin Prescription Shop. Cabinets of "sick room" supplies are on the left.
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Dr. A. N. Nelson and Mary B. Nelson

Date: 11 1948
Description: Dr. Anton N. Nelson and Mary Nelson, parents of Gaylord Nelson. Dr Nelson was a physician in Clear Lake, Wisconsin.
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Wartime Pharmacy

Date: 07 02 1942
Description: Interior of the Burke Pharmacy, complete with several prominent wartime posters and displays.
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Pharmacy in the War Exhibit

Date: 06 23 1947
Description: Eye-catching National Pharmacy Week window display at J.W. Hart's Pharmacy, show-casing the many ways in which pharmaceutical innovations were helping to w...
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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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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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