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Chanticleer Building

Date: 02 21 1930
Description: Chanticleer Orchestra managers, each with a dog at his side, sitting on the front steps of a building with an awning overhead that reads "Chanticleer."
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Waters Motor Co. Used Car Lot

Date: 03 19 1936
Description: Leon J. Waters standing in front of his used car lot at 746 E. Washington Avenue where he offered small down payments, easy terms, and good will. A small T...
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Linden Hill Grocery Store

Date: 06 19 1938
Description: Linden Hill Grocery Store, 36 South Fair Oaks Avenue. Anton "Tony" Lazarz and his wife Bernice, owners of the store, are sitting on the curb in the foregro...
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Atkins Used Car Exchange

Date: 07 19 1935
Description: Atkins Used Car Exchange in a Trachte building, 823 E Mifflin Street, with car dealers standing along side several used cars on display.
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West Kentucky Coal Co. Booth

Date: 09 16 1934
Description: West Kentucky Coal Co. booth featuring three buckets of WinterKing coal at the East Side Businessmen's Festival.
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Rennebohm Managers with Sign

Date: 10 29 1948
Description: Group portrait of eighteen Rennebohm Drug Store managers holding a sign "Managers' Kick-Off Luncheon, Rennebohm, Rexall Work Bench Drive."
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Ilena Frerker Shopping at Grocery Store

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: Ilena Fierker and her children, Bobby and Dicky, buying Dean's Milk from Clarence O. Furset, manager of Piggly Wiggly Food Center, 2701 University Avenue.
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Oscar Mayer Salesmen from Chicago

Date: 04 25 1947
Description: Group portrait of over 25 Oscar Mayer salesmen from Chicago shown in lot in front of Madison Oscar Mayer Plant with trucks, loading docks and billboard sta...
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Madison Golf Course Manager

Date: 04 19 1950
Description: Dick Jackson, assistant manager to "Cully" Schlict at Blackhawk Country Club, stands beside rows of golf clubs stored in the clubhouse.
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Chevrolet Sales Meeting

Date: 05 18 1950
Description: Group portrait of men dressed in business suits at a Chevrolet sales meeting.
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Westside Business Men's Association

Date: 08 01 1951
Description: A group of nine men, members of the Westside Business Men's Association, standing around a table with advertisements for a "Special Train to Chicago" for a...
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Orson M. Branton, Druggist

Date: 01 25 1952
Description: Portrait of Orson M. Branton, registered pharmacist since 1920. He owns the Branton Pharmacy located at 2042 East Washington Avenue.
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Samuel Schwartz, Druggist

Date: 03 06 1952
Description: Portrait of Samuel Schwartz at Schwartz Pharmacy, 902 Mound Street. Schwartz is a University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy graduate.
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Bud Shafer, Druggist

Date: 03 06 1952
Description: Portrait of "Bud" Shafer, owner of Shafer's Pharmacy at 1351 Williamson Street. Shafer is a graduate of University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsor

Date: 06 13 1952
Description: Bobby Dommershausen, entrant in the 1952 Soap Box Derby, is pictured with members of the Sertoma club which sponsored him. Sertoma members shown left to ri...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsor

Date: 06 28 1952
Description: Al Decker, manager of Cushman Hobbyland at 2628 University Avenue, and Johnny Schaffer measure a sign for the company to see if it will fit on the racer th...
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South Side Men's Club Groundbreaking

Date: 06 29 1952
Description: Four officials of the South Side Men's Club participate in groundbreaking for their new club house, Sunday, June 29, 1952. Shown left to right are: Tom Har...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Winners

Date: 07 20 1952
Description: Ralph Hult, president of Hult's garage and the co-sponsor of the Madison Soap Box Derby, poses with the top winners. At left is champion Larry Laverty who ...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 05 29 1953
Description: Group portrait of men planning a blood drive for Madison industrial plants at the Dane County Red Cross. Sitting are: Phillip C. Stark (left) and Bob Georg...
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Dick Piechowski

Date: 11 12 1953
Description: Portrait of Dick Piechowski standing in Branton's Pharmacy, 2042 East Washington Avenue, in front of a sign that reads: "Member of AID Association of Indep...

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