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Weighing Guests

Date: 1898
Description: Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left.
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Pi Lambda Phi Member

Date: 10 30 1930
Description: Portrait of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity brother standing outdoors in front of a building.
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Pi Lambda Phi Member

Date: 10 30 1930
Description: Outdoor portrait of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity brother standing in front of a building.
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Clerk Sitting at Desk at Osborne Works

Date: 08 04 1913
Description: A man wearing glasses is seated at a cluttered wooden desk at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind him are file dr...
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Vel Phillips Speaking with Arthur Goldberg

Date: 04 08 1961
Description: Vel Phillips stands while speaking with Arthur Goldberg, former Secretary of Labor and, at the time of the photograph, Supreme Court Justice. Another man c...
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Man Wearing Business Suit at McCormick Works

Date: 05 01 1913
Description: Full-length portrait of a man standing on a metal grate in front of a brick wall. A window on the right has a metal grate protecting it.
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Man Wearing Business Suit at McCormick Works

Date: 07 29 1913
Description: Full-length portrait of a man standing in front of a building. The ladder for a fire escape is on the wall behind him.
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Man Wearing Business Suit at McCormick Works

Date: 07 30 1913
Description: Full-length portrait of a man standing on a wood platform in front of the brick wall of a factory building. A ladder for a fire escape is on the wall behin...
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Man Wearing Business Suit at McCormick Works

Date: 08 14 1913
Description: Full-length portrait of a man standing on a wooden platoform in front of the brick wall of a building. The ladder for a fire escape is on the wall behind h...
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Portrait of a Man

Date: 05 19 1916
Description: Elderly man, in business suit, smiling and posing on stairs near an entrance to a brick factory building.
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Oscar Zerk at a Desk

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Description: Oscar Zerk is sitting at a desk holding a paper in his hand. The room is decorated with two taxidermied birds, and a large picture window is behind the des...

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