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Alvin Lewison Sportsmen's Home Sporting Goods Store

Date: 05 13 1953
Description: Alvin Lewison holding a fishing rod and standing in front of a rack of fishing lures in his Sportsmen's Home sporting goods store in the Shorewood Corners ...
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National Food Store, Shorewood Corners Shopping Center

Date: 05 13 1953
Description: Salesman holding a can of food standing in front of shelves holding cans of food in the National Food Store, Shorewood Corners Shopping Center, 3244 Univer...
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Home of Television Store

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: A man is crouching down and turning the dial on a television set in the Home of Television store near the Shorewood Corners Shopping Center, 3301 Universit...
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Shell Gas Station

Date: 05 13 1953
Description: Service station attendant standing next to gas pump at the Shell Gas Station near the Shorewood Corners Shopping Center, 801 Shorewood Boulevard.
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Mohawk Liqueurs Demonstration

Date: 06 02 1953
Description: Group of men and women watching two men demonstrate using Mohawk Liqueurs. The event is sponsored by General Beverage according to the poster behind the de...
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Rennebohm Annual Christmas Party

Date: 12 28 1953
Description: Rennebohm Drug Store employees enjoying the meal at the annual Christmas party at the Catholic Community Center. Pictured are Geraldine and John Mueller wi...
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Rennebohm Annual Christmas Party

Date: 12 28 1953
Description: John and Eleanor Purcell enjoying the meal at the Rennebohm Drug Store annual Christmas party at the Catholic Community Center. The published photo was cro...
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Rennebohm Annual Christmas Party

Date: 12 28 1953
Description: Ralph and Ruth Woods with Doris Frank dining in holiday finery at the Rennebohm Drug Store annual Christmas party at the Catholic Community Center. Candles...
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Vocational School Speech Class

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Jerry Capps, a salesman, giving a speech and demonstration during a speech class at the Madison Vocational school.
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Larry Borenstein Selling Women's Shoes

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, answering a woman's questions at the Borenstein Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. She is sitting on a couc...
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Shoe Stockroom at Borenstein Dry Goods Store

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, standing in a narrow aisle of the shoe stockroom at Borenstein's Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue.
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Portrait of Larry Borenstein

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Quarter-length portrait of shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, who worked in the family department store, Borenstein's Dry Goods Store, located in the Atwood ...
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Portrait of a Man

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: Myron J. Caves, owner of Caves Buick, which was located at 21 North Park Street.
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June is Dairy Month Display

Date: 06 03 1955
Description: June is Dairy Month display at National Food stores located at 2087 Atwood Avenue, promoted by a grocer holding up the cheese special of the week.
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Paul Jones Liquor Display

Date: 07 1955
Description: Man holding a bottle of Paul Jones liquor in front of other brands on a wall shelf.
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Arthur Dier smiles approval as his fiancee, Evelyn Schaefer, asks his opinion of a bright flowery Easter hat at a Madison store. Ms. Schaefer, in the foreg...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: A man holding a paper-wrapped package under his arm pauses while shopping to watch the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater on the Madison C...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Two busy Madison lawyers pause to watch the demolition of buildings on Madison's Capitol Square to be replaced with a new building to house a J. C. Penney ...
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Policeman Duane Haralson Prepares for Annual Madison Police Department Auction

Date: 10 22 1958
Description: Madison policeman Duane Haralson prepares items for the annual police department auction to be held in the basement of the City-County Building.
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New Automobile Supply Store in Madison

Date: 02 25 1959
Description: The new Midwest Tire and Auto Store in the Madison East Shopping Center. The store manager, Richard Luedtke, is shown in the new store.

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