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Edward N. Farber

Date: 09 06 1957
Description: Edward Farber, a prominent Milwaukee druggist, double checks a prescription order on the day before he retired. Farber operated his popular drugstore, loca...
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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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Men Sewing

Date: 01 08 1956
Description: Men sew as a joke at a party for a prospective bridegroom. Jack Bayliss, with bow tie, is facing the camera.
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Railroad Speed Recorder

Date: 03 05 1939
Description: George Jung, a Milwaukee Road speed recorder, comparing speed tapes from locomotives with master tapes covering the same division. The scale of the tapes i...
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Setting Up Pins

Date: 02 19 1956
Description: Father and daughter Theodore and Janet Weiss setting up bowling pins on Dads Day at Milwaukee-Downer College.
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Governor Heil Squirting Milk

Date: 06 08 1939
Description: Governor Julius Heil squirting milk from a cow on a parade float. The Governor climbed aboard the float during the dairyland parade, a part of Milwaukee's ...
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Honoring Mothers

Date: 05 05 1955
Description: A young man is standing and smiling and looking at a woman sitting on the left, while another young man sitting on the right is looking on. In front of the...
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Vulcan Materials Company Officials

Date: 07 26 1968
Description: Two men are looking at large papers. One of the men has a pipe in his mouth, and the other is wearing eyeglasses and is smiling and pointing to the sheet o...

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