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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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Pabst Malt Extract

Date: 1903
Description: Eye catching Eagle Drugstore window display for Pabst Malt Extract, "The Best Tonic". An advertisement for this product stated that it was "the greatest to...
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Hollister's Pharmacy

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of A.H. Hollister's Pharmacy, which was located at 3 North Pinckney Street. The man with the long beard (far left), is Albert H. Hollister (1...
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Willson Monarch Labs Salesman Card

Date: 1935
Description: Business card of Edward Rohloff, a traveling salesman for Willson's Monarch Laboratory, a manufacturer of patent medications in the early part of the 1900s...
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Horse-Drawn Patent Medicines Wagon

Date: 01 07 1937
Description: A traveling salesman with Willson's Monarch Labs is standing beside the horse-drawn wagon that took him on sales routes in rural Wisconsin. Willson manufac...
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Willson Monarch Remedies Wagon

Date: 1935
Description: Two salesmen stand beside one of the Willson's Monarch Remedies horse-drawn wagons. Willson's sold patent medicines, spices, extracts, flavorings, and "toi...
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Downtown Businesses on Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: View of several downtown businesses, including a drugstore advertising "Patent Medicines and Cigars".
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Sister M. Jeanette, O.P.

Date: 1944
Description: Sister M. Jeaneatte, pharmacist for Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, New York, posed by medicine dispensers. Sister M. Jeanette was a recipient of the ...
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Judkins Family Baking

Date: 1913
Description: Leonore Judkins, later Mrs. Forest Middleton, center, prepares baked goods with her mother, far left, and sisters, Juanita, Bonnie, and Blanch. Bread and r...
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Florence Lawrence medicine show scene still

Date: 1912
Description: In her dreams, the farm cook Betty (played by Florence Lawrence) appears before an enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Indian Cure-All Medicine Show. As she...
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Owen Moore, Florene Lawrence, and two other actors

Date: 1912
Description: The farmer's wife (played by an unidentified actress) and hired hand (Owen Moore) cower as Betty the cook (Florence Lawrence) threatens to dose the wife wi...
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Florence Lawrence and Owen More in a kitchen scene still

Date: 1912
Description: The farm's hired hand John (played by Owen Moore) carefully approaches Betty the cook (Florence Lawrence) who has fallen asleep while peeling a potato in a...
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Gridiron Club Spring Dinner Menu Souvenir

Date: 04 10 1948
Description: Menu souvenir, mounted on board, of a "They Went Then Till They Came to the Delectable Mountains" cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman for the spring dinner of ...
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Watch the Modern Drugstore Grow

Date: 1908
Description: View the from the street of a building being remodeled to accommodate two businesses: a drugstore on the ground floor and a postal sub-station on the secon...
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National Hospital Week

Date: 05 08 1958
Description: Madison mayor Ivan Nestingen visiting a patient at Madison General hospital after proclaiming the week as National Hospital Week. The nurse on the left is ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Reporter John Newhouse

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal reporter John Newhouse is shown in Wisconsin General Hospital operating room garb as he reports on a new drug developed in W...
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Certificate of Newly Elected Officers of the Till Institute

Date: 10 14 1919
Description: Certificate of newly elected officers of the Till Institute, a patent medicine company in Town of Almeda, Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. John Till served as Presi...

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