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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Melvin E. Diemer collection, circa 1910-1955
Filter: Subject of signs and signboards
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Yellow Cab Transfer Company located at 643 E. Wilson Street, (housed in the Denison Building) with two cabs with drivers out front. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Nakoma real estate sign at the corner of Breese Terrace and University Avenue. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The Black Eagle gas station, 907 South Park Street. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | The Fauerbach Beer display at the Grocery Convention. The display consists of many bottles of beer, beer cases, die cut cardboard displays, cloth bunting a... |
| Date: | 08 11 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Strand Theater located at 16 East Mifflin Street near the corner of Wisconsin Avenue. The marquee reads "Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson... |
| Date: | 08 25 1933 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol from West Washington Avenue. The Loraine Hotel is on the right. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Madison Consumers Dairy Co-operative, probably located at 102 South Dickinson Street, with the milkmen posing next to their home delivery t... |
| Date: | 07 24 1933 |
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| Description: | A man in a car poses in front of A. Sinaiko Hay, Flour and Feed at 653 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of nine rafters wintering at Reed's Landing. At left is Hiram Price, with L.W. Crane beside her. Third is Annie Girdon w... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Signs are advertising sideline businesses along a rural road. There is a large sign that reads: "For Sale Belgian Carrier Pigeons," and a smaller sign that... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Man at the counter of office in Dane County where clerk, Selma Fjelstad, is issuing a hunting license. |
| Date: | 05 23 1936 |
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| Description: | Madison Shriners, Temple 159, with their midget automobile. |
| Date: | 06 23 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers in trial fields of the Leonard Seed Company, with the processing plant in the background. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Miller's Women's apparel shop located on East Main Street on the Capitol Square. The building in which it was located was constructed by Marcus Kohner, one... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exhibition about the contributions of Stephen M. Babcock to the history of the dairy industry in the lobby of the State Historical Society Building. Both t... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Clothing demonstration for women by the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Extension at the 1921 Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin freshman boxing team dressed in boxing uniforms and gloves standing behind stacked cans of sauerkraut with a sign that reads "Pep U... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A street gathering of people interested in using war-salvaged explosives for a land clearance program. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A boy parades past the Oneida County courthouse with a sign that reads, "Others Quickly Followed." |
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