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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Hat department on Manchester's, Inc., second floor. A sign in the foreground, perhaps on a window, reads in reverse: "Dresses." |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Wide angle view of women's lingerie department on the third floor of Manchester's, Inc., Department Store. |
| Date: | 12 12 1942 |
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| Description: | Harry S. Manchester's, Incorporated, 2-6 East Mifflin Street, first floor with gloves, purses, and accessories department. |
| Date: | 03 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Hill's Dry Goods Store, corset department. There are tables piled with various styles of foundation garments. |
| Date: | 07 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kessenich's Silk Department, 201 State Street. Two women are standing on either side of a counter in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 07 18 1927 |
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| Description: | View of the Kessenich's Gift Shop, located at 201 State Street, with a woman customer standing among the display shelves. |
| Date: | 03 28 1927 |
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| Description: | Kessenich's infant department. In the foreground is a table with a doll and stuffed toys on it, surrounded by three rocking chairs. Along the wall in the b... |
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| Description: | Several men and women standing inside a department store next to tables piled with bolts of fabric. The store has a pressed tin ceiling. |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Christmas shoppers cross the the corner of King Street on the Capitol Square in front of Kresge's, 25-27 East Main Street. |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Men and women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter are ringing up the sale... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Joseph Rothschild, manager; Bertha Atkinson, buyer and Freda Kitson, saleswoman opened the children's and infants' department at Baron Brothers Department ... |
| Date: | 06 26 1906 |
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| Description: | Group of salespeople standing in front of The Big Store. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr... |
| Date: | 09 08 1937 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the Sibley, Lindsay, and Curr Company (Sibley's) department store load a washing machine from a loading dock onto the bed of an Internatio... |
| Date: | 09 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Teenagers modeling for the Teen Shop at Manchester's. They are sitting outdoors looking at a book. A college building is in the background. |
| Date: | 03 25 1964 |
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| Description: | Morgan Manchester, shown standing atop his present store with his recently purchased site of the former Christ Presbyterian Church visible across the stree... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View from Wisconsin Avenue towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store at 14 E. Mifflin Street. The foundation is exposed. A man wearing a hardhat ... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View up Wisconsin Avenue at West Dayton Street towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store. There are construction workers working near two cranes ... |
| Date: | 04 09 1970 |
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| Description: | Two women on the left are sitting at tables and talking into telephones. On the right are large show windows, and a bus and passers-by are visible through ... |
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