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St. Joseph Hospital Pharmacy

Date: 1948
Description: View of a nurse or pharmacist taking notes in the front end of the prescription department at the St. Joseph Hospital Pharmacy.
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Comf'y Marcel Beauty Shoppe

Date: 10 27 1930
Description: Beauty operators work on customers in booths while another woman waits in the Comf'y Marcel Beauty Shoppe, 2039 Winnebago Street. Moved to 1917 Winnebago S...
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Rennebohm Employees

Date: 1979
Description: Two Rennebohm employees take a break to read the newspaper. Although unidentified, this photograph by Chuck Patch, is thought to be the Rennebohm Drug Stor...
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Waitress at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A waitress identified only as Helen clears dirty dishes from the tables at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 19 restaruant, 204 Cottage Grove Road. This is the ...
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Breakfast at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A waitress serves ham and eggs to Steven O. Kimbrough at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. Chuck Patch, Kimbrough's breakfast companion, has...
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Rennebohm Lunch Counter

Date: 1979
Description: Carlene, Corey, and Laura, pose with a group of customers at the lunch counter in a Rennebohm's Drug Store restaurant. Part of the restaurant and store is ...
Photograph

Girl Scout Cookie Sales

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Mrs. Austin T. Breyer (Daisy), 2730 Lakeland Avenue, ordering Girl Scout cookies from Scouts Mary Ripp, left, 2202 Lakeland Avenue, a member of Troop 12 of...
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Healy's Market and Bakery Van

Date: 1941
Description: A white International Metro owned by Borck and Stevens bakery is parked in front of the market which is on a street corner. The brick building has two elec...
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Jaeger's Bread Truck

Date: 1940
Description: A man standing at the back of an International Metro truck with a basket of bread. The truck includes the text: "Jaeger's / Butter-Nut is fresh bread". "Ha...
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Madison Police Lost-Found Auction at Breese Stevens Field

Date: 06 23 1950
Description: Madison police officer Hector Naze is shown in front of a crowd at Breese Stevens Field acting as an auctioneer of lost and found items which have accumula...
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Palace of Sweets

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Palace of Sweets, a restaurant-style candy shop manned with waiters and waitresses.
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Girl Scout Cookie Sale

Date: 02 27 1952
Description: Girl Scouts Janet and Jane Brandenburg promote a Girl Scout cookie sale to Dorothy Freck.
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Memorial Day Parade

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Description: Elevated panoramic view of the Memorial Day Parade, from the corner of Main and 1st Streets. Men carrying musical instruments, including a trombone, trumpe...
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Glacier Park Hotel Lobby

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Description: View of the Glacier Park Hotel lobby. View features the large rustic lobby with log beams and columns, Japanese lanterns, animal skins hanging from the bal...
Postcard

Memorial Day Parade

Date: 1906
Description: Brass marching band in uniforms and spectators at a Memorial Day parade. The band and spectators stand in the road outside city shops and business, includi...
Print

International Metro Advertising Proof

Date: 12 1948
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color illustrations of various Christmas scenes and an International Metro truck. Includes the text "...
Photograph

Florence Lawrence in "The Pawns of Destiny"

Date: 1914
Description: Florence Lawrence watches as a young man with bandaged hands and face is transferred by two orderlies from a gurney onto a hospital bed. Also visible in th...
Print

"The Shadow Returns" Lobby Card

Date: 1946
Description: Lobby card for the Monogram film "The Shadow Returns," featuring several characters on a patio investigating a body that has just fallen from the roof.
Photograph

Girl Scout Cookie Sale

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: F.S. Brandenburg, a long time supporter of camping, gives his annual Girl Scout Cookie order to Black Hawk Girl Scout Louise Youngquist. The cookie sale ha...
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Practicing CPR

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Description: "Theresa Lions purchased this 'Annie' to practice CPR. Members are Bernie Adelmeyer, demonstrating, from left: Jim Wiseman, Ed Guelig, Neil Coulter, Harvey...

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