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| Date: | 02 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Many toiletries, medicines, and sundries fill the cabinets on both sides of Hieber's Drugstore. Traditional glass label bottles line the back wall behind t... |
| Date: | 02 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Druggist Frank Stanish of Hieber's Drugstore measures and compounds a prescription. |
| Date: | 04 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Druggist Stanley Meyers pauses while weighing a prescription on the pharmacy's scale. |
| Date: | 04 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Two pharmacists behind the prescription counter check the scale at the Pekin Prescription Shop. Cabinets of "sick room" supplies are on the left. |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Gosling's Sales and Service display at West Side Business Men's Association harvest festival featuring coffee grinders, meat grinders and Holcomb & Hoke Ma... |
| Date: | 07 09 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman shopping in the produce department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She was promoting the Oscar Mayer Health for Victor... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Worker checking dimensions and weight of Farmall Cub pistons at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | A football player stands on scale weighing in at 183 lbs. A second player is standing nearby. |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | A football player standing on a scale. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on. |
| Date: | 11 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Ten individual portraits of University of Wisconsin football players each standing on a Toledo No-Springs scale. Included are: Joe Campbell, John Davey, Cl... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Text on page says, "Wollertrag," and gives the amount, in kilograms, of angora rabbit wool yields produced for the years 1941, 1942, and 1943. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Man in lab coat weighing angora rabbit with scale outdoors. Text on page says, "Gewichtskontrolle". |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Man weighing angora rabbit with scale outdoors. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory worker weighing parts on a scale at International Harvester's Rock Falls Works. |
| Date: | 02 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Malcolm W. Jensen, age 30, City of Madison Sealer of Weights and Measures, is pictured at his desk in the Madison City Market Building. The objects on his... |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Jack Mead standing on a scale for weigh-in. Mead went on to participate in the 1945 Pro Football College Draft and... |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Nick Holmes standing on a scale for weigh-in. |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Clarence Esser standing on a scale for weigh-in. |
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