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Belmont Hotel Barber Shop

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Barber Roy Brumley giving Dan Seligman a haircut while his two pet parakeets are perched on each of his shoulders, at the Belmont Hotel barbershop. Seligma...
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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Mrs. Arthur Straight washing dishes in her rural home with pet hen "Minnie" on her shoulder.
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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Pet hen "Millie" riding in the front seat with Mrs. Arthur Straight as she drives the family truck.
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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Fourteen-month-old Charles Straight, playing in his wooden crib with the family pet hen "Minnie" by tugging on the tail, in their rural home. The walls are...
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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Fourteen-month-old Charles Straight is holding an egg laid by the family pet chicken "Millie" that is sitting in a cardboard box.
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Pet Rooster

Date: 04 23 1957
Description: Barbara Scholidon posing with her 1-year-old pet rooster. She had brought the chicken home from a Lapham School project that hatched twelve chicks from an ...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Three boys are pressing their noses to the window of a pet shop on a busy Monroe Street, while viewing five rabbits. Two boys have their thumbs in their ea...
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Catey Doyle with Harvey the Mina bird

Date: 08 30 1957
Description: "Whooopee, whoopee! Is it true, is it true?" says Harvey, a Mina bird cared for by ten-year old Catey Doyle and owned by Professor John T. Emlen (of 2122 V...
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Jo Ann Ulvestad Returns Home After Three-Month Polio Treatment

Date: 11 26 1957
Description: The Orris Ulvestad family members, 4309 Drexel Avenue, welcome home Jo Ann after she spent three months in a respiratory center at the University of Michig...
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Homeowner Redecorates with Contemporary Styling

Date: 12 27 1957
Description: The tri-level home of I. Franklin and Arline Houseman, 821 Lakewood Boulevard in Maple Bluff, was redecorated with her choosing the color scheme. Their son...
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Laurie Curtin and Dog at Perjury Hearing

Date: 08 20 1958
Description: Laurie Curtin, age 13, sitting in a hearing room with the family dog, Bishop, next to her. Her parents, William and Eleanor, are facing perjury charges ass...

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