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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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Frank P. Stanish

Date: 02 01 1947
Description: Druggist Frank Stanish of Hieber's Drugstore measures and compounds a prescription.
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International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Chart Room

Date: 1925
Description: Three graphic artists inside the Chart Room of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department at 616 S. Michigan Avenue. The men are illustrat...
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Medical Tent

Date: 1910
Description: Medical tent with what appears to be a patient in a bed, and doctor standing near a medical cabinet. The photograph is part of an album devoted to Internat...
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Filming "Design for Life"

Date: 1955
Description: The camera moves in on a retail pharmacy scene in "Design for Life", a film produced by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American F...
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Scene from "Design for Life"

Date: 1955
Description: Friendly counsel on pharmaceutical salesmanship is offered a prospective pharmacy student Dale Saunders (David Bain) by Sales Representative Randall (Art G...
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Fischelis at War Memorial

Date: 1948
Description: Robert Fischelis and H.A.B. Dunning examine the War Memorial at the American Pharmaceutical Association Headquarters building.
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Pharmacist

Date: 1950
Description: A pharmacist working in the lab area of a pharmacy.
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Preacher Delivers Sermon on Tuberculosis

Date: 04 1924
Description: Preacher Chas V. Reed delivering a sermon on tuberculosis in conjunction with an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department lecture. Mr. Ree...
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Physician inside McCormick Works Infirmary

Date: 11 05 1914
Description: Factory doctor sitting in a doctor's office or first aid station at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
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One-Armed International Harvester Factory Worker

Date: 10 12 1910
Description: One-armed factory worker in a suit and bowler hat posing against a brick wall. The man likely worked at International Harvester's Osborne Works.
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Employees of Alabama International Dealership

Date: 09 20 1938
Description: Employees lined up in the service entrance of Whiddon Implement and Truck Company, an International Harvester dealership. Left to right are Alvin Mount, tr...
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Obed Hussey

Date: 1850
Description: Quarter-length portrait of inventor Obed Hussey (1782?-1860) as it appeared in W.T. Hutchinson's biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick. He is wearing an eye pa...
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Dr. Bushnell B. Cary

Date: 1856
Description: Quarter-length oval portrait of Dr. Bushnell B. Cary.
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J. Wesley Carhart

Date: 1880
Description: Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ...
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Gilson Metal Locator

Date: 03 15 1945
Description: Hulda Gieschen and Dr. Warren E. Gilson, who specializes in electro-physiology and medical electronics at the University of Wisconsin, are looking at a Gil...
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Picnic

Date: 07 28 1945
Description: Group portrait of RMR employees at a picnic.
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Laird, Obey, and Nelson

Date: 10 27 1973
Description: Candid portrait of three Wisconsin legislators sharing a light moment. Left to right, they are: Melvin Laird, who resigned from his congressional seat in J...
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The La Valle Story Photographs

Date: 05 03 1949
Description: William Frazier, village president, sitting at a drug store counter visiting with druggist Burt Blank in the village of La Valle.
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South Side Men's Club X-Ray Drive

Date: 07 22 1949
Description: South Side Men's Club X-Ray Drive members urge all south-side residents over 15 years of age to have chest X-rays taken during the club's anti-tuberculosis...

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