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H.S. Manchester's, Incorporated, Department Store

Date: 1954
Description: Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street.
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Herring-Curtiss Flying Machine

Date: 1909
Description: Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh...
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Manchester's, Inc., Paris Hats Window Display

Date: 01 15 1946
Description: Manchester's, Inc., Paris hats window display, "Authentic Copies and Adaptations."
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Harry S. Manchester's, Incorporated

Date: 10 22 1945
Description: Harry S. Manchester's, Incorporated, window display featuring a "Tula" negligee, "After the ballet is over - a ballerina Tula negligee." In the background ...
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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.
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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.
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Woman Demonstrating Pres Kloth

Date: 04 15 1942
Description: Woman holding iron and demonstrating the Pres Kloth (a pressing cloth) in Manchester's Department store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street.
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Women's Style Show

Date: 02 28 1941
Description: Women's style show (for McCall's) at Manchesters Department Store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street, showing female model and announcer.
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Manchester's, Inc., Millinery Department

Date: 01 08 1941
Description: Hats on display in Manchester's, Inc., millinery department, 2-6 East Mifflin Street.
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World War II Bond Sale

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter ring up the sales.
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Manchester's, Inc., Favorite Colors Window Display

Date: 05 25 1950
Description: Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, "Favorite colors brown, green, and yellow" dresses window display, with two mannequins. Window #5.
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Manchester's, Inc., Sterling Silverware Window Display

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: A window display at Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, close-up taken at an angle, featuring Wallace, International and Lunt sterling silverware.
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Playtex Girdle Display Window

Date: 04 03 1952
Description: Manchester's Department Store, 2 East Mifflin Street, display window featuring Playtex girdles, and a mannequin wearing a robe.
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Sears Roebuck and Company Store

Date: 12 25 1954
Description: Exterior view from the west of Sears Roebuck and Company store at 1101-1115 East Washington Avenue, with Christmas decorations, located on the corner of Ea...
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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.
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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...
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F.W. Woolworth Store

Date: 1954
Description: F.W. Woolworth store on East Main Street at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard), showing the old Vilas block (aka Pioneer Building).
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Reaper Centennial Window Display

Date: 1931
Description: Display in the window of the Hudson Bay Company department store in Alberta, Canada, celebrating the centennial anniversary of the reaper's invention.
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Sears-Roebuck Department Store

Date: 1954
Description: View of the Sears-Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. The portion of East Washington in front of the store is full of parked automobiles.
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Aerial View of Sears-Roebuck

Date: 1956
Description: Aerial view of the Sears-Roebuck department store on East Washington Avenue and its surrounding parking lots.

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