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Pet Bantam Hen

Date: 03 1955
Description: Fourteen-month-old Charles Straight is holding an egg laid by the family pet chicken "Millie" that is sitting in a cardboard box.
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Family Barbecue

Date: 10 1955
Description: A mother and son look on as the father tends to a thick steak cooking on a portable barbecue. The boy is holding a Dachshund puppy; the mother, three bottl...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Three boys are pressing their noses to the window of a pet shop on a busy Monroe Street, while viewing five rabbits. Two boys have their thumbs in their ea...
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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Barbara Notstad holding one of the ten kittens on the family farm that she will miss when she goes to school for her first year at Rockdale School near Cam...
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Catey Doyle with Harvey the Mina bird

Date: 08 30 1957
Description: "Whooopee, whoopee! Is it true, is it true?" says Harvey, a Mina bird cared for by ten-year old Catey Doyle and owned by Professor John T. Emlen (of 2122 V...
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Jo Ann Ulvestad Returns Home After Three-Month Polio Treatment

Date: 11 26 1957
Description: The Orris Ulvestad family members, 4309 Drexel Avenue, welcome home Jo Ann after she spent three months in a respiratory center at the University of Michig...

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