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Grocery Convention Display

Date: 1933
Description: The Fauerbach Beer display at the Grocery Convention. The display consists of many bottles of beer, beer cases, die cut cardboard displays, cloth bunting a...
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Crowd at the Congress Tavern

Date: 10 15 1935
Description: Interior view of the Congress Tavern, 111 Main Street, on a busy night.
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Learning about Medicine Bottles

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Members from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School meet in the pharmaceutical laboratory where they checked medicinal products and learned to identify...
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Buckhorn Tavern

Date: 1949
Description: Customers sitting at the bar in the Buckhorn Tavern. There are five mounted deerheads above the bar. The bartender is standing behind the bar.
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Patrons and Bartender at Chet's Tavern

Date: 1941
Description: Two patrons and bartender at Chet's tavern. The bartender is pulling bottles of Schlitz beer out of an International No. 4 De Luxe dry type beverage cooler...
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DiSalvo's Spaghetti House Bar

Date: 04 12 1944
Description: Interior view of DiSalvo's Spaghetti House bar, located at 810 Regent Street in the Greenbush neighborhood. Family portraits, including servicemen, are on ...
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Mini Bar

Date: 1950
Description: Mini bar with refrigerator and glassware.
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Revelers Celebrating the End of Prohibition

Date: 1933
Description: Men and women celebrating the end of Prohibition, around a table with bottles of various alcoholic beverages. They are holding a sign that reads: "In Compl...
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Portrait of Clara St. Cyr and Lucy Davis

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two smiling Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) women identified as Clara St. Cyr, a Nebraska Winnebago, lef...
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Corben Christening

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br...
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Roma Wine Display

Date: 12 19 1945
Description: Roma wine display at Walgreen drug store, 32 East Mifflin Street, with store manager, Ernst Rintelmann.
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Belmont Spa Tavern

Date: 06 11 1945
Description: Richard and Ione Edwards behind the bar at the Belmont Spa, in the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street, with a clock advertising Calvert liquor.
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Schlitz Beer Display

Date: 04 18 1945
Description: Schlitz display with four bottles of beer displayed as flowers with sign "Summer Time is Schlitz Time."
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Calvert Whiskey Display Window

Date: 12 13 1944
Description: Calvert whiskey display window in the Indian Room of the Monona Hotel, 114 Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard).
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Goal Post Restaurant

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Storefront of Goal Post Restaurant and Tavern, 1515 Monroe Street, display window featuring bottles of Schlitz beer and 7-UP with a pinball machine visible...
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Romantic Night at the "Moonlight Formal"

Date: 08 26 1944
Description: A formally dressed young woman and her beau in his U.S. Army uniform sit at a table and drink Coca-Cola at the "Moonlight Formal" in Tripp Commons at the M...
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Prescription Pharmacy

Date: 08 01 1944
Description: Interior of Prescription Pharmacy at 20 Carroll Street.
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Pepsi Cola Window

Date: 03 15 1944
Description: Pepsi Cola display window at the White Cross Pharmacy, 920 East Johnson Street.
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Spice Collection

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef, proudly displaying his spice collection.
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Dobby's Cosmo Club

Date: 07 16 1943
Description: Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota, Wisconsin, interior view of the bar showing liquor bottles and three World War II servicemen...

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