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Painting "The Founding of the U.S. Pharmacopeia"

Date: 1957
Description: Artist Robert Thom is seen here working on one of his paintings, this one titled: "The Founding of the United States Pharmacopeia".
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"The Founding of the U.S. Pharmacopeia" Painting

Date: 1957
Description: The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ...
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Busy B's Dog and Monkey Act

Date: 1970
Description: Gloria Peebles' Busy B's animal act featuring a monkey in a rabbit costume pushing a wheelbarrow while a dog looks on through the window of the playhouse.
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Out of Action

Date: 01 13 1967
Description: Dejected skier at home with cast and crutches, after breaking her leg practicing for competition.
Postcard

Champion Chemical Company Postcard

Date: 09 1910
Description: Exhibit of the Champion Chemical Company promoting their embalming fluids. Also presented in the exhibit are caskets and clothing to dress the dead.
Photograph

Important Potawatomi Men

Date: 1890
Description: A group of locally important Potawatomi Indians, apparently photographed in a government or law office at Escanaba, Michigan. Left to right standing are Fr...
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Abraham Mishegand or Mishicott

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Potawatomi Indian, Michicott.
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Dairy Equipment Dealer Demonstrates Product

Date: 1937
Description: McCormick-Dealer dairy equipment dealer Lyal H. Watkins demonstrates to Ernie Deensford how to clean a milker hose.
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Loading a 20mm Cannon

Date: 1945
Description: Original caption reads: "A loaded magazine is mounted on a 20mm cannon in one of the test stands at Hazel Park Firing Range." Frederick Viator is the gunne...
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Woman Candling Eggs

Date: 06 1925
Description: A seated woman candling eggs at Holden Farm.
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International Harvester Sales Room

Date: 1910
Description: Auto wagon and Hoosier and Empire Jr. seeders on display in the showroom of an International Harvester dealership. Several International Harvester advertis...
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William Ford

Date: 1929
Description: William Clay Ford Sr.(?) sits behind a desk in an office. Mr. Ford may have been an International dealer.
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August Krueger with Group

Date: 1867
Description: August Krueger with group of sailors(?).
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Ready for Inspection

Date: 1918
Description: World War I equipment placed for inspection as photographed by Victor Morris at Camp Curtis.
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World War I Mess Hall

Date: 04 1918
Description: Company D Mess Hall at Camp Curtis.
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McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 11 21 1935
Description: Five men are examining a 16-can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler at an International Harvester dealership or branch house showroom. A man uses his pen to desc...
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Man Pouring Tivoli Beer

Date: 1935
Description: A man is sitting at a table holding a cigarette in one hand and pouring a bottle of Tivoli pilsner beer into a glass with the other. Original caption reads...
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Union Contract Signing

Date: 
Description: S. Dillon Foss and L. McDonald of the United Packinghouse Workers of America signing a contract with the Nichols-Foss Packaging Company.
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UPWA Officers

Date: 02 11 1949
Description: Swearing-in ceremony for Local 190 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America in Detroit by field representative George Sinclair: Daniel Penn, president...
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NAACP and UPWA

Date: 1960
Description: Donald Hankins (third from the right), president of United Packinghouse Workers Local 569, hands a $500 check for an NAACP life membership to Arthur Johnso...

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