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| Date: | 01 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the interior of the Montgomery Ward Company phonograph record department, 215 State Street. |
| Date: | 07 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Businesses along West Main Street during the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street, after the top one and two stories have been removed. Bu... |
| Date: | 12 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the roof of the Park Hotel. Main Street businesses seen include, from the left: Western Union Telegraph Company at 21 West Main Street, ... |
| Date: | 08 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Record Shop, 105 West Mifflin Street, display window featuring Joet Robinson, MGM starlet, and her phonograph records, as well as adve... |
| Date: | 06 08 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across intersection towards the Milwaukee Free Press building at E. Wisconsin Avenue and N. Broadway (built as Northwestern Mutual's home off... |
| Date: | 08 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Refurbished store fronts along West Main Street at the corner of South Carroll Street. The building occupied by Walk-Over Shoe Store and Forbes-Meagher Mus... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three Men Playing Musical Instruments, Edward Schwaller at left; Frank H. Schwaller in middle; man at right unidentified. Probably inside Schwaller Music ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed man sits in a chair in a Schwaller Music Store on Pine Street. Various pianos are on display. There are signs for Sohmer Pianos and New Home... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Looking east across Pine Street at the F. A. Schwaller Music Store / Schwaller's Real Estate Office, flanked by Theodore Riel's dry goods and grocery store... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Looking east across Pine street at the storefronts of J. Wien's clothing, dry goods, and grocery store, Black's Dry Goods store, Schwaller's Real Estate Of... |
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| Description: | View of Commercial Street. Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles are in the street. Business signs read: "C.A. Whale Piano & Organ House" and "Salem Lodging... |
| Date: | 06 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Forbes-Meagher Music Co., 27 W. Main Street, won a trophy in a nation-wide window display contest. A.C. Cory (right) presenting the trophy to Harold Frye (... |
| Date: | 09 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Elmer Ziegler was a musical arranger, conductor, composer, publisher, multi-instrumentalist, instrument repairman, teacher and music store operator. He is ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View down retail street. Shops and parked cars are on either side. On the side of a shop on the left there is a hand-painted advertisement for the selectio... |
| Date: | 12 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Professor Ray Dvorak, director of university bands, receives a white clarinet from Boris Josheff, president of the Josheff Music Store, Inc. His store is t... |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Record shop employee Charles Lunde (right) explaining the merits of Charlie Ventura's septet to customer Richard Mallum, who is admiring the cover of the v... |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customer John Salzer (left) looking over an album with George Dasson. Other 33rpm vinyl records are displayed on the wall, and framed photographs of musica... |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customer Nancy Thomsen purchasing a vinyl record. Other 33rpm records are displayed along the back wall and counter top, and 45s are sitting inside a glass... |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customers Judy Schwandner and May Nicolaus enjoy hearing a record playing on a turntable in the store's listening booth. |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customer Anne Davis playing a vinyl record in a listening booth before making a decision to purchase it. |
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