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Family in their Living Room

Date: 1955
Description: Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set.
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Telephone Conversation

Date: 03 27 1963
Description: A three-year-old girl uses a toy telephone, and carries on an imaginary conversation at a preschool.
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Fiore Coal & Oil Co. Window Display

Date: 05 22 1931
Description: Fiore Coal & Oil Co. window display in the First National Bank building, 905 University Avenue. The window features a model railroad train layout which is ...
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Manchester's Department Store at Christmas

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Description: Santa Claus talks on a telephone at a Christmas display at Manchester's Department Store.
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Police Officer Robert O'Brien With Wooden Guns

Date: 03 08 1947
Description: Police Officer Robert O'Brien showing guns he carved.
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McCormick-Deering Store--Milk Cooler

Date: 07 01 1935
Description: A six-can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler on display in an International Harvester dealership. A display case on the left near a window holds either toys or...
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Everetta and Sewing Machine

Date: 1894
Description: Everetta Bass stands in a room near chairs in front of a treadle sewing machine. A doll buggy is also visible. A tapestry or blanket hangs on the wall on t...
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Syl with Christmas Tree,

Date: 12 25
Description: Syl standing with a rifle next to a Christmas tree surrounded by presents, including numerous books and an "Iron Clad" wagon.
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Office Interior

Date: 1931
Description: A view of a cluttered office, possibly that of the photographer, with several desks and two typewriters. There is a large model train on a mantle above a s...
Postcard

Merry Christmas

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard with a little girl asleep in bed. Santa Claus is gazing at her with a doll in his left hand. He has a sack of toys on his back and is wear...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus to the left of a blazing brick fireplace with three stockings hanging from the mantle. He is holding a stocking in his le...
Postcard

Better Call a Doctor

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of the Middleton family dog, Tootsie, dressed as a nurse, attending to Tommy the cat, who rests in a doll cradle. A bottle of "Catnip...
Postcard

Medicine Time

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of the Middleton family dog, Tootsie, dressed as a nurse, attending to Tommy the cat, who rests in a doll cradle. A bottle of "Catnip...
Postcard

Able to Sit Up

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of a cat, with head bandaged and foreleg in a sling, sitting in a rocking chair, as Tootsie the dog, dressed as a nurse, is standing...
Print

Merry Christmas To The Boss

Date: 1930
Description: Eight page holiday card. The inside four pages are shorter and narrower, jogged to the top. Four views are shown. On the front is a "Boss," sitting at his ...
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Boy Sitting on Dock

Date: 1954
Description: The little cowboy with a toy gun on the pier is John Paul Widmer. The pier was on the Rock River at the west end of Henni Street in Theresa.
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Romper Room

Date: 06 14 1957
Description: The set of WMTV's Romper Room program, showing "Miss Nancy" (Eunice Spindler) with her kindergarten "pupils." They include, from left: David Shwaiko, Marg...
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Romper Room

Date: 06 14 1957
Description: "Miss Nancy" (Eunice Spindler) and five "pupils" sit at tables on the set of WMTV's Romper Room.
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Flying Desk

Date: 1964
Description: A woman working on a Goldwater campaign airplane. She is wearing a Goldwater hat, and a stuffed elephant is sitting on the desk with a Goldwater pin attach...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe...

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