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Pabst Malt Extract

Date: 1903
Description: Eye catching Eagle Drugstore window display for Pabst Malt Extract, "The Best Tonic". An advertisement for this product stated that it was "the greatest to...
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Northwest Airlines Pickets

Date: 07 09 1970
Description: Picket line of striking Northwest Airlines ticket agents and office workers who were represented by the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks.
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Beauty Wear Hosiery Window Display

Date: 01 31 1941
Description: Window display for Beauty Wear Hosiery stockings, with sign in picture frame that reads: "Beauty Wear, Pretty as a Picture HOSIERY, Your Old Hosiery Has Ca...
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Corliss Post Office

Date: 1901
Description: Post office, with seven men and a boy standing in front. Corliss is now called Sturtevant.
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Christmas Shopping

Date: 12 1947
Description: Two children, a boy and a girl, look at display of toys in a store window.
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August Haak Grocery Store

Date: 1901
Description: The storefront of August Haak, cash grocer, at 461 West Gilman Street. Two men are posing in front of the store. Caption reads: "August Haak . . . . Cash B...
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Storefronts on Main Street

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Description: Horse and wagon in front of a storefront on Main Street with an elevated board sidewalk. Storefronts identified from left to right as G.G. Melbye Groceries...
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Rozmenoski Brothers Meat Market

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Description: View from street of the Rozmenoski Brothers Meat Market, on a side street of town, in the Adam Best Building, built in 1914. A man stands inside behind the...
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Magazine Window Display

Date: 06 29 1946
Description: Window display featuring the July, 1946 issue of Holiday magazine. In this issue is an article called, "Read about Wisconsin's Dairyland" by Phil Dr...
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1939
Description: South Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. The view includes several retail shops and a women's clothing store.
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Used Automobile Tire Display

Date: 10 06 1948
Description: A woman standing between a new Ford automobile and a capped and uniformed service technician pointing at a question mark covered window.
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Manchesters Window Art

Date: 11 06 1948
Description: Featured in a Harry S. Manchesters window titled "Dreamland," 2 East Mifflin Street, is a painting of a farm near Madison by John Atherton for The Satur...
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Sadie Jackson Murder

Date: 07 10 1949
Description: Storefront of the Norris Court Grocery, 912 East Johnson Street, the site where Sadie Jackson died after being shot by alleged murderer George "Butch" King...
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Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company Window

Date: 08 18 1949
Description: Display of guns in the display window at Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company, 29 West Main Street.
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Baron's Store Display Window

Date: 05 17 1950
Description: Display window at Baron's Department Store, located at 14-18 Mifflin Street. Display features a clown figure, shoes, and a sign reading "Casuals on Parade...
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Madison Button Club Display

Date: 09 26 1950
Description: Sets of buttons in display boxes are arranged in the Madison Button Club store window display.
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Black Eagle Oil Company

Date: 10 17 1950
Description: Close-up view of the show window at the Black Eagle Oil Company, 1039 East Washington Avenue, depicting a display of winter-weight oil and automobile tires...
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Albertson Post Office

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Description: Exterior view of the Albertson Post Office with books displayed in the window.
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Exterior William's Pharmacy

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Description: Exterior view of WIlliam's Pharmacy. Signs read "Williams Drugs, Hospital Supplies, Toilet Articles, Kodak Films, Soda Fountain, First Aid, Information" "S...
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Business Block

Date: 1911
Description: View from street of a business block in Ableman. There is a storefront with umbrellas displayed in the show window, and what appears to be a hammock is han...

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