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Beauty Shop

Date: 11 22 1934
Description: Hair stylists wearing the popular Marcel wave hairstyle create new looks for customers at the Marcel Comfy Shoppe, 1917 Winnebago Street near Schenk's Corn...
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Beauty Bath

Date: 12 03 1967
Description: A woman takes a bath at the Edgewater beauty and health spa.
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North Fairchild and West Mifflin Streets

Date: 06 20 1944
Description: Four houses along North Fairchild Street, left to right, Michael Endres (20), Timothy Lyons (24), John Dahlk - furnished rooms (26-28), and Sam Corona (30)...
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Entrance to Hub Building

Date: 12 15 1935
Description: Entrance to Hub Building, 24 West Mifflin Street, showing Maiden Beauty Shop sign and part of Menges Pharmacy with a Coca-Cola sign.
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Luzier Beauty Shop Interior

Date: 05 18 1934
Description: Interior of Luzier Beauty Shop, in the Gay Building, 16 North Carroll Street, showing the cash register, displays of products, manicure table, and a view t...
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Comfy Marcel Shoppe Interior

Date: 11 22 1934
Description: Five beauty operators and four customers in the Comfy Marcel Shoppe, 1917 Winnebago Street, beauty parlor. Includes advertising text: "For better beauty cu...
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Cardinal Beauty Shoppe

Date: 01 11 1934
Description: Cardinal Beauty Shoppe, 625 State Street, interior view from the front of the shop. Featuring the dryer system and manicure tables.
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Tiffany's Beauty Salon

Date: 12 05 1933
Description: Tiffany's Beauty Salon, located in the Wisconsin Power and Light building, 122 W. Washington Avenue.
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Cardinal Beauty Shoppe

Date: 12 07 1933
Description: Cardinal Beauty Shoppe, 625 State Street, interior, from the back of the shop. Featuring the new dryer system and manicure tables.
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Cedric Parker under Hair Dryer

Date: 11 24 1933
Description: Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman, reads Time magazine while under the hair dryer at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street. Lucille Bump...
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Cedric Parker Gets a Facial

Date: 11 24 1933
Description: Lucille Bump, beauty operator, applying a mudpack to the face of Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street.
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Cedric Parker Gets a Permanent

Date: 11 24 1933
Description: Cedric Parker, Capital Times reporter, gets his hair curled with a permanent wave machine attached to his hair, at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State ...
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Cedric Parker Gets a "Wave" Haircut

Date: 11 24 1933
Description: Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman, has Lucille Bump, beauty operator give him a Rudy Vallee fingerwave at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street...
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Palace Beauty Shop

Date: 10 20 1933
Description: Hair stylists working on customers' hair at the Palace Beauty Shop, 531 State Street.
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Palace Beauty Shop

Date: 10 20 1933
Description: Advertisement for the Palace Beauty Shop, 531 State Street, with a view of beauty operators working with three customers, and the banner: "We make loveline...
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Cardinal Beauty Shoppe Window Display

Date: 09 27 1932
Description: Cardinal Beauty Shoppe, 625 State Street, window display of three head and shoulder mannequins, and Contoure beauty products. Shows "Cardinal Beauty Shoppe...
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Duncan Beauty School

Date: 09 29 1932
Description: Interior of the Duncan Academy of Hair and Beauty Culture School, located at 23 South Pinckney Street. Students are working with customers in hair styling ...
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Cardinal Beauty Shoppe Window Display

Date: 08 31 1932
Description: Cardinal Beauty Shoppe, 625 State Street, window display, awarded first prize in a national window display contest conducted by the Modern Beauty Shop maga...
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Raquel Torres at Bastick Beauty Shop

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Actress Raquel Torres has her hair dressed by Rose Bastick at Bastick Beauty Shop, 18 E. Mifflin Street.
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Raquel Torres at Manchesters Cosmetics Counter

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Raquel Torres at Manchesters cosmetics counter with Max Factor representative, Mabelle Hege, and another woman holding a dog.

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