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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 11 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T... |
| Date: | 05 11 1955 |
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| Description: | Chalk lines in the foreground mark the spot where White Elephant Bar owner was shot. Police and detectives conferred in the background after assembling inv... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses. |
| Date: | 05 1958 |
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| Description: | A father, Peter Froeming, watching as his three children George, Robert, and Roseann are playing with wooden blocks, with a small toy canoe in the foregrou... |
| Date: | 09 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Edward Farber, a prominent Milwaukee druggist, double checks a prescription order on the day before he retired. Farber operated his popular drugstore, loca... |
| Date: | 11 14 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham. |
| Date: | 12 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Newborn infants lying in incubators sleeping. |
| Date: | 12 22 1956 |
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| Description: | Apprehensive young child on Santa's lap. |
| Date: | 02 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Girls being weighed to determine their donations of a penny a pound to the YWCA camp. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding... |
| Date: | 02 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of boy sitting on a toy fire engine, another boy dressed as a cowboy, and a girl with a toy cash register playing in the bedroom. |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A boy in the bath tub being bathed by his mother. |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mother and daughter washing dishes together. |
| Date: | 03 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Boy with radio kit, experimenting with a two tube radio receiver. |
| Date: | 11 14 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman making a small adjustment to an interior room in a dollhouse. |
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