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Grocery Convention Display

Date: 1933
Description: The Fauerbach Beer display at the Grocery Convention. The display consists of many bottles of beer, beer cases, die cut cardboard displays, cloth bunting a...
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La Pharmacie Francaise Museum

Date: 1960
Description: Reproduction of the apothecary shop owned by Louis Dufilho, the first licensed pharmacist in the United States. Louisiana pioneered in regulating the profe...
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Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit

Date: 10 1946
Description: Interior view of the Wisconsin Historical Society Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit. Pictured are several decorative showglobes, a leech jar, and shelves of variou...
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Early Apothecary Shop Exhibit

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Description: Early Apothecary Shop exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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Early Chicago Drugstore

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Description: Museum exhibit for the Chicago Historical Society depicting what a typical early Chicago drugstore looked like.
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Juliusspital Apotheke

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Description: The palace-like Juliusspital was founded in 1576 by Prince Bishop Julius Echter as a refuge for the sick and the poor. The Rococo apothecary (reproduction ...
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Employees at Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit

Date: 08 25 1936
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Historical Society employees Dawn Young and Ray Lamb who are staffing the museum's historical drugstore exhibit.
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Atomic Power Display

Date: 09 26 1946
Description: Display in the window of a pharmacy, explaining what happens to uranium as atomic power is produced.
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National Pharmacy Week Display

Date: 1942
Description: Display in the window of a pharmacy promoting National Pharmacy Week. National Pharmacy Week was used as a way to help educate consumers about the role pha...
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National Pharmacy Week Display

Date: 06 28 1942
Description: A window display at Hubbard Drug Company for National Pharmacy Week. The display extols the virtues of your pharmacist being able to craft medicines specif...
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Tuberculosis Awareness Display

Date: 10 13 1940
Description: Educational window display promoting awareness about tuberculosis at the Frankfurter Pharmacy.
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Pharmacy in the War Exhibit

Date: 06 23 1947
Description: Eye-catching National Pharmacy Week window display at J.W. Hart's Pharmacy, show-casing the many ways in which pharmaceutical innovations were helping to w...
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National Pharmacy Week Display

Date: 1947
Description: National Pharmacy Week display in the front window of East's Pharmacy.
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Midway Pleasance, Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: Columbian Exposition; North side of Midway Pleasance viewed from Madison Avenue.
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Opening of Pasteur Galt Apothecary Shop

Date: 10 27 1950
Description: Pictured are (L to R): Kenneth Chorly (Pres. of Colonial Williamsburg), Dr. Tom D. Rowe (Chair of National Pharmacy Week), and Robert P. Fischelis (Secret...
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Vending Machines

Date: 1955
Description: Vending and dispensing machines display. Banner above also reads: (Increased dairy sales and better health for your community."
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Showroom with Truck that Crossed the Sahara

Date: 02 07 1929
Description: Showroom featuring the Special Delivery truck (center) that crossed the Sahara Desert from 1927-1928. There is a framed map on an easel on the left.
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Herring-Curtiss Flying Machine

Date: 1909
Description: Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh...
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Coolerator: The Air Conditioned Refrigerator

Date: 09 03 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer & Company Coolerator display at the West Side Business Men's Harvest Festival. The Oscar Mayer Coolerator Store was located at 401-405 State St...
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Oscar Mayer "Serving America" Display

Date: 04 18 1942
Description: A female model wearing a long dress is standing on an "Oscar Mayer Serving America" stage set holding a meat product.

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