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| Date: | 02 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Girls being weighed to determine their donations of a penny a pound to the YWCA camp. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company nursery. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding... |
| Date: | 02 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of boy sitting on a toy fire engine, another boy dressed as a cowboy, and a girl with a toy cash register playing in the bedroom. |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A boy in the bath tub being bathed by his mother. |
| Date: | 05 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mother and daughter washing dishes together. |
| Date: | 03 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background. |
| Date: | 03 1953 |
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| Description: | A sleek, deluxe sleeping railroad passenger car made of high-strength, low-alloy steel. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Passengers seated on the upper level of a Milwaukee Railroad superdome coach. |
| Date: | 05 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Milwaukee Railroad superdome passenger car passing through the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Date: | 10 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Boy with radio kit, experimenting with a two tube radio receiver. |
| Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
| Date: | 11 14 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman making a small adjustment to an interior room in a dollhouse. |
| Date: | 02 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the "TV Center" with the proprietor and televisions on display. |
| Date: | 12 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Triplets blowing out the candles of their birthday cake. |
| Date: | 11 09 1955 |
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| Description: | A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years. |
| Date: | 09 19 1958 |
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| Description: | County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband. |
| Date: | 06 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool. |
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