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| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Wisconsin Historical Society Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit. Pictured are several decorative showglobes, a leech jar, and shelves of variou... |
| Date: | 05 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Historical Society museum display of railroad lanterns in the "Building Wisconsin Railroads" exhibit. |
| Date: | 07 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the American Pharmaceutical Association Council visit the old Apothecary Shop exhibit at the Smithsonian. |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman, her son, and a sales clerk, all in period costumes in the drug store / pharmacy display in the Wisconsin Historical Society museum, then located o... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Joyce Elmer is basting a chicken in an iron reflector oven and Gene Lyte is using a butter churn. Both women are University of Wisconsin home economics maj... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Isomel Billings is using an old-fashioned broom, Lietzel Pelican and Patricia Cirves are operating a sausage grinder. The women are University of Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | The History Building at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The building was one of several new buildings, all of a modern, forward looking design, comple... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The Grignon house was built (at the later address of 1313 Augustine Street) in 1836 by Charles Grignon. Charles Grignon was the son of Augustin Grignon, on... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The Grignon house was built (at the later address of 1313 Augustine Street) in 1836 by Charles Grignon. Charles Grignon was the son of Augustin Grignon, on... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The Grignon house was built (at the later address of 1313 Augustine Street) in 1836 by Charles Grignon. Charles Grignon was the son of Augustin Grignon, on... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A spinning wheel, chair, and other kitchen objects in the corner of a room. Caption reads: "Corner of Pioneer Kitchen, Douglas County Historical Museum, Su... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Dipslay of Sioux Indian Relics. Caption reads: "Barry Room, Sioux Indian Relics, Douglas County Historical Museum, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Door County Museum. Caption reads: "Door County Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the fireplace in the interior of the Door County Museum. The text along the mantel reads: "The Past, The Present, and the Future Cannot Be Separate... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Door County Museum, featuring a display of a sculpted man in Native American dress. |
| Date: | 07 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Bette Lou Becker and Jeanne Lamoreaux, from the Wisconsin Historical Society, model and admire the vest of Charles C.P. Arndt. Arndt was shot through the c... |
| Date: | 07 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Dr. Albert Goetze, professor of Assyriology at Yale University, examining 4000 year old Sumerian cuneiform tablets from the Wisconsin State Historical Soci... |
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