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Hill's Department Store

Date: 08 13 1957
Description: Exterior night view night of Hill's Department Store window, 202 State Street, displaying twelve ladies' "fashion tailored" long sleeve shirts. Advertised...
Photograph

Department Store

Date: 11 30 1966
Description: Sears Roebuck department store interior.
Photograph

Window Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A woman and young girl review the latest fashion merchandise in a retail window display.
Photograph

Lee's Oshkosh Airplane

Date: 1932
Description: In order to undertake a trans-Atlantic flight to Norway, Clyde Allen Lee sought financial support from the local Oshkosh clothing company. The sign painted...
Photograph

AGW Company Store

Date: 
Description: Miss Martin, Miss Weiland and Joseph(?) Lee pose inside the AGW Company Store.
Photograph

Manchester's, Inc., Third Floor Lingerie Department

Date: 02 01 1945
Description: Wide angle view of women's lingerie department on the third floor of Manchester's, Inc., Department Store.
Photograph

Speth's Display Window

Date: 05 02 1944
Description: Speth's Clothing and Men's Furnishings, 222 State Street, left display window featuring "Gean Edwards" sports clothing.
Photograph

Darling Shop Clothing Models

Date: 11 06 1940
Description: Darling Shop, 9 East Main Street, female clothing models, Beverly Muenchow and Eileen Regan, wearing sports outfits, trousers and skirts with blouses, sadd...
Photograph

New Orpheum Theatre

Date: 04 10 1927
Description: Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street. View includes Speths Clothing, Weber's Restaurant, Family Shoe Store, Rentschler Floral Co. Featured photoplay is "Wolf'...
Photograph

L-185 International Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Businessmen standing next to an International L-185 truck owned by the Max Branovan Shoe Company. The trailer is labeled "A. O. Smith Company Shoemobile".
Photograph

Hills Department Store

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Hills Department Store, 202 State Street at Dayton Street, with a window display of men's sport shirts.
Photograph

Rennebohm Store on Capitol Square

Date: 1938
Description: West Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square showing, from left to right, Gerald's, a women's clothing store (in the Wisconsin Life Building); a Rennebohm Dru...
Photograph

The Lappin Block

Date: 1892
Description: The Lappin block, Ed. Carpenter, proprietor. Businesses on this block include: Bort, Baily & Co., Dry Goods and Carpets; A.F. Hall & Co., "The Reliable Jew...
Photograph

Water Street, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1875
Description: View of the west side of Water Street.
Photograph

Water Street, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1868
Description: View of unpaved Water Street, showing a millinery shop.
Photograph

Water Street, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1875
Description: View of unpaved Water Street south of the Highway 12 intersection, looking north. Bluffs are in the distance.
Postcard

Court Street

Date: 1915
Description: View of Court Street looking west. Caption reads: "'Court St. Looking West' Richland Center, Wis." The awning over the storefront on the right corner reads...
Photograph

View of a Street in Monroe

Date: 1875
Description: View down a cluttered Monroe street. The corner building later became Schuetze's Clothing Store.
Photograph

Westgate Shopping Center

Date: 08 1965
Description: The parking lot at Madison's Westgate Shopping Center. Many of the stores in this mall had been previously located in the downtown shopping area. The resul...
Book or Pamphlet

54 - Angora Wool Production

Date: 1943
Description: Angora wool production for the years 1941-1943. There are drawings of a submarine, airplane, and soldier, as well as photographs showing the clothing made ...

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