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Traveling Medicine Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic.
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"Hot Dr. Pepper" Supermarket Display

Date: 1966
Description: Costumed saleswoman at a supermarket display for Dr. Pepper soft drinks. The display includes samples of "Hot Dr. Pepper" and "winter warmer."
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Gesell Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1893
Description: Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell's five children (l to r: Arnold, Bertha, Robert, Gerhard, and Wilma) posed around a Christmas tree with their gifts.
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Young Man with Tray of Drinks

Date: 
Description: A smiling young man wearing an apron stands outdoors with a tray of drinks. Behind him are farm buildings, a buggy and an automobile.
Historical Object

Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1903
Description: A hand-painted nasturtium bud and leaf decorate an album page with five photographs of the children of Frank and Louise Mears Fargo. At top left, Frank Jr....
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Couple in Buggy

Date: 1905
Description: A young man, identified on the negative envelope as Arther Samfle [sic], is sitting with a young woman in a buggy hitched to a matched team. The horses are...

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