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Photographer Edmund Eisenscher

Date: 1950
Description: Color portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher.
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Edward N. Farber

Date: 09 06 1957
Description: Edward Farber, a prominent Milwaukee druggist, double checks a prescription order on the day before he retired. Farber operated his popular drugstore, loca...
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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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Shooting for the Moon

Date: 05 14 1963
Description: Lunar trajectory paths and computations on a blackboard are discussed by employees of Milwaukee's Astronautics, Inc.
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Post Office

Date: 01 13 1968
Description: Post Office workers in mail room.
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Vending Machines

Date: 04 20 1967
Description: High school freshman use vending machines for lunch.
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Railroad Speed Recorder

Date: 03 05 1939
Description: George Jung, a Milwaukee Road speed recorder, comparing speed tapes from locomotives with master tapes covering the same division. The scale of the tapes i...
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Governor Thompson Boosts Amtrak

Date: 10 30 1989
Description: Tommy G. Thompson, governor of Wisconsin and an enthusiastic member of the Amtrak governing board, salutes the expansion of Hiawatha service between Chicag...
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Night Session Art Class

Date: 1949
Description: A night session art class, for University of Wisconsin Extension Center in Milwaukee.
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Israel Wolnerman and Family at their Milwaukee Home

Date: 12 19 1980
Description: Holocaust survivor Israel Wolnerman, his wife Irene, and their daughter Ann at their residence. Wolnerman was among thousands of prisoners from Staltach (a...
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Man with Chinchilla

Date: 01 21 1951
Description: A man holding a live chinchilla at a Milwaukee style show.
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Setting Up Pins

Date: 02 19 1956
Description: Father and daughter Theodore and Janet Weiss setting up bowling pins on Dads Day at Milwaukee-Downer College.
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Men Officers of the Milwaukee Turners

Date: 06 13 1903
Description: Golden Jubilee of the Milwaukee Turners 1853-1903. Seven oval portraits of men with their names listed, mounted on a decorated mat.
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A Bouquet for Geraldine Ferraro

Date: 10 31 1984
Description: Geraldine Ferraro thanks a little boy and girl for giving her a bouquet of flowers after her speech.
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Romney, Great for '68

Date: 01 05 1968
Description: A man and woman get ready for the arrival of Mrs. George W. Romney at the Romney for President headquarters. Several campaign posters and banners are sprea...
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Robert Doyle, Civilian War Correspondent

Date: 06 1942
Description: Quarter-length publicity portrait of Robert Doyle smiling, dressed in a suit. This image was published with some of his articles in the Milwaukee Journa...
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Robert Doyle Honored by Red Arrow Club

Date: 12 07 1948
Description: For contributing to the morale of state troops in the South Pacific by his work as a war correspondent, Robert Doyle (right), a Milwaukee Journal re...
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Creative Center Workshop Group Portrait

Date: 03 30 1973
Description: Group portrait at the Mary Church Terrell Creative Center, which was founded in 1963 by Bernice Lindsay (second from left). The Creative Center was located...
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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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Edward Phelps Allis

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Edward Allis.

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