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| Date: | 10 18 1946 |
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| Description: | Lord Calvert liquor display in the window of Julian's Flame Restaurant and Cocktail Bar, 540 State Street, with neon sign. |
| Date: | 08 26 1941 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Commercial State Bank building, located at 102 State Street, at the corner of State and Carroll Streets. |
| Date: | 10 30 1944 |
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| Description: | View across railroads tracks towards the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad station. A number of children and adults are standing around the station. S... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Leona street scene with parked cars in front of Connor's Big Department Store and the Hotel Gordon, photographed sometime during the summer of 1941. Soon... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | View of intersection with pedestrians crossing the street in the town central business district. Businesses include three drugstores, a hotel, and a clothi... |
| Date: | 10 31 1946 |
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| Description: | Display window at Badger Liquor Store, 402 State Street, showing Calvert Liquor, with sign picturing pheasant and gun and the words "If his aim's as good a... |
| Date: | 11 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Display window at Carlson's $1 Store, 2524 East Washington Avenue, featuring Kotex products. Text on the signs reads: "Your secret is safe," "No revealing ... |
| Date: | 05 09 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from Park Hotel Roof of the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street. Other West Main Street businesses visible are Madison Bank... |
| Date: | 07 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Businesses along West Main Street during the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street, after the top one and two stories have been removed. Bu... |
| Date: | 11 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Manchester's University of Wisconsin homecoming window display showing three female mannequins wearing formal dresses. |
| Date: | 12 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Heidelberg Hofbrau Restaurant, exterior view, with crowds of people looking at aftermath of a fire, 20 West Mifflin Street. Also shows The Hub, a mens' clo... |
| Date: | 12 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Heidelberg Hofbrau restaurant roof after a fire. The photograph was taken from a nearby building's roof, alternate view. |
| Date: | 01 27 1947 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester Inc., department store Valentine Day Berkshire hosiery, nylon stockings, window display. |
| Date: | 04 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Carmen's, 9 South Pinckney, women's clothing store, featuring a display window of hats for the Carroll Hat Company. |
| Date: | 12 26 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking southwest from alley toward West Main Street with construction worker in unfinished ba... |
| Date: | 12 28 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking north with construction workers in unfinished basement. Also shows side of Wisconsin T... |
| Date: | 04 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Art Deco storefront, Carmen's women's clothing store, 9 South Pinckney Street. Also shows Ames Dress Shop, 11 South Pinckney, and Madison Inn (Nom Yee's Ch... |
| Date: | 02 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking north across basement and first floor. Also shows side views of Y... |
| Date: | 03 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, from intersection of West Main Street and South Fairchild Street looking at first and second f... |
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