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Making Dr. Brown's Cough Balsam

Date: 1896
Description: Workers posing in front of pharmaceutical equipment to demonstrate the making of Dr. Brown's Cough Balsam at Kienth Drugs and Medicines, 608 Mitchell Stree...
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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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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Janke

Date: 11 14 1957
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Janke taking care of last minute details in their prescription department before closing their drugstore's doors at 1658 W. Hopkins permanentl...
Photograph

Compounding Prescriptions

Date: 11 26 1940
Description: A trio of druggists busy themselves in the laboratory with compounding materials for patient prescriptions. The pharmacists were employed with "The Pharmac...
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Pharmacy Class

Date: 1912
Description: Marquette University, School of Pharmacy, Class of 1912. Rial Herreman is identified as the third from the left in the back row.
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Lewis Sherman

Date: 1914
Description: Quarter-length side-profile studio portrait of Lewis Sherman, Milwaukee physician and pharmacist.
Postcard

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...
Photograph

Joseph Mabbett Allcott

Date: 1913
Description: Carte-de-visite of Joseph Mabbett Allcott, proprietor of J.M. Allcott & Co. drugstore in Milwaukee.
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Joseph Mabbett Allcott

Date: 1903
Description: Carte-de-visite of Joseph Mabbett Allcott, proprietor of J.M. Allcott & Co. drug store in Milwaukee.
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Joseph Mabbett Allcott

Date: 1856
Description: Carte-de-visite of Joseph Mabbett Allcott, proprietor of J.M. Allcott & Co. drug store in Milwaukee. He is sitting in a chair, with a dog resting at his fe...

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