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| Date: | 09 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Exterior night view of the Nancee Hat Shop at 7 South Pinckney Street featuring hats, purses and an Art Deco entrance. |
| Date: | 08 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior night view night of Hill's Department Store window, 202 State Street, displaying twelve ladies' "fashion tailored" long sleeve shirts. Advertised... |
| Date: | 06 14 1927 |
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| Description: | Storefronts of the Wisconsin School of Music, East Side Variety Store and Hess Grocery Market. Owned by the Hess family, this property was located at 154 A... |
| Date: | 03 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Night view of the "Mifflin Arcade" with terra cotta facade. Businesses include Silver Dollar Tavern at 117 West Mifflin Street, Sibyl Hats at 119 West Miff... |
| Date: | 10 26 1934 |
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| Description: | A driver is sitting in Licari's panel truck, next to the small art deco office of Licari Tire Company, where another man is posing at the door, 767 West Wa... |
| Date: | 11 29 1944 |
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| Description: | The photo studio department in Manchester's Department Store. A man is assisting a female customer, while female employees do their work. |
| Date: | 04 08 1941 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., 2-6 East Mifflin Street, displays "Sachet" hosiery and other accessories. |
| Date: | 04 17 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men and a woman looking at display materials in the R.H. and E.H. Carpenter, Inc. exhibit of Rock Wool insulation at the Home Show. Text on back of p... |
| Date: | 02 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Five men stand behind a 200 pound wheel of Swiss cheese. Written on wheel is "Madison Milk Producers Cooperative Ass'n." The cheese was a gift for Major Ed... |
| Date: | 07 18 1935 |
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| Description: | A man spinning the propeller with Frank A. Sloan in the pilot seat and a women is sitting in the back of a car that looks like an airplane. They are at a G... |
| Date: | 08 18 1934 |
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| Description: | Keating Garage and Ford Sales and Service, 14-16 N. Fairchild Street with the Keating tow truck and employees in front of the garage doors. |
| Date: | 03 19 1934 |
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| Description: | Baron Brothers Department Store, 12-18 W. Mifflin Street, basement shoe department with four salesmen and a large number of women customers. |
| Date: | 02 12 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men stand with the Capitol Oil Corporation display at the Madison Auto Show. The exhibit features "Tiolene Motor Oil," "Bowes Seal Fast," "Purol-Pep g... |
| Date: | 12 13 1933 |
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| Description: | Meyers Tire & Accessory Co., 215 East Washington Avenue, with a shipment of new Federal truck tires piled on the sidewalk in the front of the building. Sno... |
| Date: | 09 15 1933 |
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| Description: | The interior of the Service Shop, second-hand store at 113 E. Doty Street, with customers looking through the merchandise. |
| Date: | 06 28 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of disabled World War I veteran Adolph Gunness, Soldier Boy Ice Cream Bars vendor, who was arrested for selling on the street. |
| Date: | 10 27 1932 |
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| Description: | Employees of the W.T. Grant Company, 21 S. Pinckney Street, in costumes at their Halloween party. |
| Date: | 12 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Clinton Bullard holding a package of butter next to a sign that reads: "No Oleomargarine or Butter Substitutes Bought or Sold in this Store," in his store ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, 2427 University Avenue, with a woman weighing items on an old balance beam scale. |
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