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Meat Market Display

Date: 1939
Description: Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display.
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Grocery Store

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Description: A woman is being waited on by a man standing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods are stacked on shelves along the wall behind the counter.
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Fred Schenk Grocery Store

Date: 1907
Description: Interior of the Fred Schenk grocery store on the corner of Atwood Avenue and Winnebago Street. Included in the photograph are Art Ramsey, Matilda Schenk, a...
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Badger Liquor Shop

Date: 11 29 1937
Description: Five men (Saul Sinaiko and his son Donald Sinaiko and three others), standing in front of a liquor bottle display at the Badger Liquor Shop, 402 State Stre...
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Miller Grocery

Date: 10 02 1935
Description: Miller Grocery Store, located at 113 North Hamilton Street. The interior of the store has food displays and shelving, and five people are standing in the b...
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Burdick & Murray Display Window

Date: 11 20 1933
Description: Thanksgiving dining room display window at Burdick & Murray, 15-19 East Main Street. Featuring a mannequin wearing a dress and an apron, linens, china, cry...
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Clinton Bullard Sells No Substitutes

Date: 12 18 1931
Description: Clinton Bullard holding a package of butter next to a sign that reads: "No Oleomargarine or Butter Substitutes Bought or Sold in this Store," in his store ...
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Avenue Food Shop

Date: 04 23 1931
Description: Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale.
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Kindergarten Grocery Display

Date: 10 29 1930
Description: Six kindergarten children wearing aprons stand in front of a classroom grocery display at Lapham School, 1436 E. Dayton Street.
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Crysteel Electric Range Display

Date: 12 03 1926
Description: Crysteel Electric Range (stove) display at Park Hotel with mannequin and Santa Claus.
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Aunt Jemima with Philco Appliances

Date: 02 27 1954
Description: A woman dressed as Aunt Jemima is making pancakes on a pull-out griddle at a stove which is part of a merchandise display at Evans Radio and TV Store, 4233...
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Grocery Store Checkout Counter

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Two clerks at a grocery store checkout counter with a woman and child purchasing milk and bread. The shelves behind the register are stocked with a selecti...
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Interior of Harry's Food Shop

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Interior of Harry's Food Shop, 1122 Chandler Street, owned by Harry and Loretta Blodau, with customer Mary Huth with her children. Patricia Huth is sitting...
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Max Waln at Millins Supermarket

Date: 12 07 1953
Description: Portrait of Max Waln, with bowtie, the owner and manager of Millins Supermarket, located at 553 West Main Street. The market was formerly known as Vincent ...
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Plaenert's Grocery

Date: 06 1931
Description: Walter Plaenert, owner of Plaenert's Grocery, poses in front of his store at 1128 South Park Street. He is holding a sign for the South Side Picnic. The si...
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Nature's Own Health Foods

Date: 1930
Description: A man dressed in a white uniform, hat and apron with a dark necktie poses on the steps to Nature's Own Health Foods at 501 West Olin Avenue. He is displayi...
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Dexter Curtis Trunks and Valises

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Description: View from street of two men standing just inside the open doorway of the storefront. Trunks are displayed on pallets set up on the wooden sidewalk. Dexter ...
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Tom Di Salvo

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Description: A grocer sorting through produce in Di Salvo's Italian grocery store.
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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 an aproned employee holding wrapped cheese at an aisle end c...
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Main Street

Date: 09 02 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Main St. Sun Prairie Wis." View of storefronts line the left side of the street, with horse-drawn wagons at the curb. A man in an apr...

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