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| Date: | 11 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Cave-in on Monona Avenue, caused by water main leak, looking towards Wisconsin State Capitol. View shows automobiles parked in the street, and the State Ba... |
| Date: | 11 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Cave-in on Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard), caused by a water main leak. View is looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol, with automob... |
| Date: | 11 01 1933 |
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| Description: | Burdick and Murray display window showing "Wiff 'n' Pouff Sensation" corsets. "Smartens Young Lines." 15-19 E. Main Street. |
| Date: | 11 09 1933 |
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| Description: | Jungmann Co. display window with cardboard cutouts of a man and two women admiring a Sparton floor model radio, 326 W. Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 10 19 1933 |
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| Description: | Frank's Restaurant, 821 University Avenue, signage reads: "Regular Meals and Plate Lunches," "Beer on tap, 5 cents" and National Recovery Administration si... |
| Date: | 08 06 1933 |
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| Description: | "Gold Diggers of 1933" on Orpheum Theater marquee, 216 State Street. The entrance to Weber's Restaurant is on the left side of the theater. |
| Date: | 08 04 1933 |
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| Description: | Arthur Santell is pulling three Pontiac automobiles, each with a man on the running board, with his teeth in front of General Auto Service and Henry Motor ... |
| Date: | 08 03 1933 |
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| Description: | George's restaurant, 307 State Street. "Booths for Ladies." Reflection in window is of Hommel's Star Food Stores across the street. |
| Date: | 07 13 1933 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Eastwood theatre, located at 2090 Atwood Avenue with "Sun - The Mind Reader with W. Williams and C. Cummings" and "Happy Jack Turn... |
| Date: | 06 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Manchester's window display featuring Phoenix Hosiery manufactured at the Chicago Century of Progress World's Fair and featured as prizes in a contest. Cen... |
| Date: | 06 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Harrold's jewelry window store display, 220 State Street, featuring jewelry and tableware. |
| Date: | 06 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Julian's Delicatessen and Sandwich Shop, 226 State Street. Julius Giller proprietor. A boy is standing inside the entrance looking through the door. |
| Date: | 06 16 1933 |
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| Description: | Madison Steam Dye Works, 116 S. Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 06 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Harold Knudsen sitting on the National Junior Racer outside the Capitol Theatre, the prize for a contest conducted by the Fiore Coal and Oil Co., Phillips ... |
| Date: | 06 09 1933 |
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| Description: | Dyer's Orthopedic Shoe Store, "Foot Health Headquarters," 103 State Street, with signs for Ground-Gripper shoes and Cantilever Shoes. |
| Date: | 06 02 1933 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin window display at the Three Sisters store, 27 S. Pinckney Street, Tenney Building, with banners, mannequins and clothing. Art deco ... |
| Date: | 03 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Bobbie Thorpe is sitting in "Madison's smallest real car, a National Junior Racer" to be given away to the child with the most "votes." Votes can be obtain... |
| Date: | 03 31 1933 |
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| Description: | S.S. Kresge's store, 25 E. Main Street jewelry window. |
| Date: | 12 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Palace Drug Store, 114 State St., Dale Fink, president, window display with flashing sign (Kay Manufacturing Co.), "Developing and printing on Velox paper,... |
| Date: | 11 24 1932 |
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| Description: | Brown's Book Shop, 643 State Street, with a window display of the "Modern Library." |
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