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| Date: | 09 26 1946 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy, explaining what happens to uranium as atomic power is produced. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy promoting National Pharmacy Week. National Pharmacy Week was used as a way to help educate consumers about the role pha... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Educational window display promoting awareness about tuberculosis at the Frankfurter Pharmacy. |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | View of the U.S. Pharmacopeia's exhibit at the American Medical Association's 1942 Conference in Atlantic City, detailing the revisions and additions of va... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Storefront war products exhibit at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. A sign on the window reads: "Mud pies. Today is serious business! This fou... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce... |
| Date: | 09 03 1943 |
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| Description: | Oscar Mayer & Company Coolerator display at the West Side Business Men's Harvest Festival. The Oscar Mayer Coolerator Store was located at 401-405 State St... |
| Date: | 04 18 1942 |
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| Description: | A female model wearing a long dress is standing on an "Oscar Mayer Serving America" stage set holding a meat product. |
| Date: | 04 18 1942 |
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| Description: | A female model standing and wearing a long dress on the "Oscar Mayer Serving America" stage set, holding a meat product. |
| Date: | 04 18 1942 |
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| Description: | A female model is standing and wearing a long dress on the "Oscar Mayer Serving America" stage set holding a meat product. |
| Date: | 04 18 1942 |
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| Description: | A female model wearing a long dress is standing on the "Oscar Mayer Serving America" stage set holding a meat product. |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Coolerator refrigerator booth at the East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival. The Oscar Mayer Coolerator Store was located at 401-405 State Stre... |
| Date: | 08 16 1944 |
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| Description: | John J. Flad, architect, and John Guy Fowlkes, professor of education at the University of Wisconsin, viewing the exhibit "Modern Architecture for Modern S... |
| Date: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Mothers of young children view display of "New Uses of Familiar Things" at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. Pictured left to right: Susan Ma... |
| Date: | 06 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Sgt. James McCullough, Memphis, Tennessee, a marine veteran guarding the Freedom Train, points out Washington's Farewell Address to three Madison Boy Scout... |
| Date: | 06 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Helen Beckwith, Brodhead, and Mrs. J.L. Specker, pictured standing at the entrance to the Freedom Train, parked on the tracks behind the Chicago, Milwaukee... |
| Date: | 06 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Exhibit developed by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers, Inc., of Wisconsin Rapids, concerning the manufacture of a paper-based plastic, consowel... |
| Date: | 10 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Conservation Department Display. |
| Date: | 11 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Leaders of the American Dairy Association met at the Loraine Hotel. The ADA was organized in Madison in 1938. Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, is sh... |
| Date: | 01 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Bulletin board for the Wisconsin State Button Society, with the names of five member clubs and button displays. |
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