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Book or Pamphlet

Plano Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for harvesting machinery made by the Plano Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of a woman on a stage crown...
Photograph

International Harvester Office Workers

Date: 1914
Description: Women and men at work inside an office. The women are using typewriters. A large advertisement for International motor trucks is on one wall.
Photograph

CUNA Office Managing Director

Date: 08 24 1944
Description: Roy F. Bergengren, Managing Director, at desk with two visitors at the CUNA (Credit Union National Association) office, 1342 East Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Roy F. Bergengren and Female Employee

Date: 06 10 1941
Description: CUNA (Credit Union National Association) Managing Director, Roy F. Bergengren, sitting at desk, talking to female employee.
Photograph

Union News Co. Merchandise Display

Date: 05 06 1939
Description: Union News Company merchandise display cases along the wall at Chicago & Northwestern Depot, 219 S. Blair Street. The display features gifts, magazines, an...
Photograph

Fauerbach Palm Garden Refreshment Stand

Date: 09 17 1937
Description: Palm Garden refreshment stand with three men behind a bar, with tables and chairs, and decorative palm trees. The stand was set up at the East Side Busines...
Photograph

CUNA Credit Union Office

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Three female employees in the CUNA (Credit Union National Association) general office. 142 E. Gilman Street.
Photograph

Helen Logue's Office

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Helen Logue's office with female employee (bookkeeper) sitting behind a desk at CUNA (Credit Union National Association), 142 East Gilman Street.
Photograph

Kretlow's Barbershop

Date: 12 28 1933
Description: Interior view of Kretlow's Barbershop, 109 W. Mifflin Street, with three barbers: left, "Duke" Ahern, center, Burt Bruce, and owner Ray Kretlow, standing n...
Photograph

Palace Beauty Shop

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

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...
Photograph

Malcolm Paul

Date: 09 18 1931
Description: Malcolm Paul as he was found after the bank robbery.
Photograph

Floralo Incense Company

Date: 09 18 1929
Description: Three women working at Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street. The are tamping and boxing incense.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph illustration of a ...
Photograph

Relaxing in the Barber Chair

Date: 06 1971
Description: Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop.
Print

Woman Peeling Potatoes in front of TV

Date: 1956
Description: "All To Myself" brochure for the NBC Matinee Theater with a woman sitting front of the television peeling potatoes with her shoes off. There is an outline ...
Photograph

Milwaukee Panorama Artists

Date: 11 1887
Description: Group portrait of German painters relaxing in the studio of the American Panorama Company, during a break from painting the Jerusalem cyclorama depicting t...
Photograph

Milwaukee Panorama Artists

Date: 11 1887
Description: Group portrait of German painters relaxing in the studio of the American Panorama Company, during a break from painting the Jerusalem cyclorama depicting t...
Photograph

Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl...
Photograph

CUNA Office

Date: 02 04 1947
Description: Close-up of a woman sitting in front of a Remington Accounting Machine. In the background are other women and a man in the office using other office machin...

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