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Wartime Pharmacy

Date: 07 02 1942
Description: Interior of the Burke Pharmacy, complete with several prominent wartime posters and displays.
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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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Mr. Bones

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: The class of U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School Pharmacists' Mates-to-be is introduced to the skeleton of the human body as part of their studies of an...
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Columbia University, College of Pharmacy Building

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Pictured are the members of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School heading to their pharmacy course in the Columbia University College of Pharmacy buil...
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Filtering a Prescription

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A Pharmacist Mate-in-Training from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School filters a liquid for a test prescription. This filtration process helped to e...
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Student Compounding a Prescription

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School uses the traditional pharmacist's tool of a mortar & pestle to grind medicinal ingredients for a pre...
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Weighing Powders

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School carefully measures and weighs powdered ingredients for a prescription.
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Measuring with a Medicine Dropper

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School uses a small medicine dropper to precisely measure and mix liquid ingredients for a prescription.
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Rolling Bandages

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Two members of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School roll bandages with the help of a crank-operated machine. Part of their training involved the prep...
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Learning about Medicine Bottles

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Members from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School meet in the pharmaceutical laboratory where they checked medicinal products and learned to identify...
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Fischelis at War Memorial

Date: 1948
Description: Robert Fischelis and H.A.B. Dunning examine the War Memorial at the American Pharmaceutical Association Headquarters building.
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Red Cross Workers

Date: 09 21 1942
Description: Large group of Red Cross Workers seated at tables, preparing surgical dressings in the assembly room at the American Federation of State, County and Local ...
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Howard Miner Receiving Poppy

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Howard Miner, disabled World War I veteran, receiving Forget-me-not flower from Florence Palz, ladies auxiliary chairman, marking the opening of the forget...
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Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell

Date: 10 14 1931
Description: Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell discuss the "Forget-Me-Not" campaign for Disabled American Veterans.
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Wisconsin General Hospital Entrance

Date: 09 25 1946
Description: Entrance to Wisconsin General Hospital, 1300 University Avenue, showing plaques on either side of doors which read: "1920-1924 Erected in gratitude by the ...
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Wounded Marine in Iwo Jima

Date: 02 1945
Description: A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged.
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Child with Injured Foot

Date: 08 1957
Description: A young Algerian girl has her foot treated by a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker in a tent. The man is wrapping the girl's foot in bandages. She ...
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Tomac Plasma Bank

Date: 1944
Description: A woman in a white dress, probably a nurse or volunteer, places a container into a "Tomac Plasma Bank," a refrigeration unit developed by International Har...
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"Fit to Fight" Production Still

Date: 1917
Description: The actor Paul Kelly (playing Hank Simpson) sits next to director Edward H. Griffith in front of a cameraman and his Debrie motion picture camera in a prod...
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Joseph L. Julius

Date: 07 15 1962
Description: A man holding a cane is sitting on a felled tree near the stump. Caption reads: "A huge willow tree is among the trees that have been cut down to make way ...

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