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Filter: Creator Name of McVicar, Angus B., 1903-1964
Filter: Subject of signs and signboards
| Date: | 06 18 1952 |
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| Description: | A hosiery window display with mannequins at Hills Store, 202 State Street. A sign in the window reads: "Fruit-of-the-Loom Nationally Famous Nylons, 99 cent... |
| Date: | 10 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Portrait of George Stahl, chimney sweep, with a pipe in his mouth, and wearing a tall hat and carrying a bag and a rope around his shoulder. He is standing... |
| Date: | 08 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Office of the Wisconsin State Employment Service. View of King Street looking toward Capitol Square from East Doty Street. Businesses in view include Quisl... |
| Date: | 09 17 1931 |
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| Description: | View down East Wilson Street from the corner of King Street. The Union Transfer Building is on the right hand side at 155-303 East Wilson Street, Rubin's F... |
| Date: | 09 17 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Capitol Theatre tower, with Farness Furniture store on the right. |
| Date: | 02 05 1930 |
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| Description: | View from across the street of the Capitol Theatre tower. "Love Parade" is advertised on the marquee. Three automobiles are in the street in front of Peopl... |
| Date: | 06 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view above State Street of the Capitol Theatre, with construction nearly completed. |
| Date: | 07 02 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the nearly completed Capitol Theatre. Construction scaffolding is in the background. |
| Date: | 10 13 1927 |
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| Description: | Storefront of the Universal Grocery Company at 20 W. Mifflin Street, with window displays. On the left is a portion of The Hub, 22 W. Mifflin Street, a sto... |
| Date: | 04 02 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre at 211 or 213? State Street. Entrance under construction is between Fred W. Kruse Co. and Peoples Clothing Co. stores. |
| Date: | 04 19 1932 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Hub clothing store, located at 22-24 West Mifflin Street. A sign reads: "Society Brand Clothes and Florsheim Shoes." Second floor windows h... |
| Date: | 08 17 1933 |
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| Description: | Crowd assembled outside the RKO Orpheum Theatre to watch "Tugboat Annie" on MGM's traveling theatre. Speths Clothing and other businesses in the 200 block ... |
| Date: | 01 22 1928 |
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| Description: | The intersection of Atwood Avenue and Winnebago Street known as Schenk's Corners, with the columned Security State Bank building at the center junction of ... |
| Date: | 11 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Oriental rug business owned by Solomon Gulessarian at 319 State Street. The Palace Barber Shop is next door on the right. |
| Date: | 11 28 1927 |
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| Description: | View of the 3 F Laundry on the corner of University Avenue and Lake Street, with Holmes Tire, 614 University Avenue, and the Wheeler Conservatory of Music,... |
| Date: | 11 28 1927 |
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| Description: | View of the Lawrence Restaurant, located at 662 State Street. |
| Date: | 12 02 1929 |
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| Description: | Scaffolding rises on the State Bank of Wisconsin, 1 West Main Street, as an addition is constructed. Automobiles are parked on both sides of the street in ... |
| Date: | 05 20 1930 |
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| Description: | The Montgomery Ward Store Building at 100 North Hamilton Street, at the intersection of Pinckney and North Hamilton Streets. The building was designed by L... |
| Date: | 03 21 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Tenney Building, located on the corner of East Main and South Pinckney Streets. The building was designed in 1929 by Law, Law, and Pot... |
| Date: | 09 17 1931 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Elver House, later the Wilson Hotel, on East Wilson Street. |
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