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| Date: | 01 31 1934 |
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| Description: | Miss Helen King modeling a new rubber bathing costume, holding a beach ball. This was the current fashion of the day and was made by U.S. Rubber Co. |
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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: | 1954 |
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| Description: | S.S. Kresge storefront and Miller's clothing store on Main Street. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Businessmen standing next to an International L-185 truck owned by the Max Branovan Shoe Company. The trailer is labeled "A. O. Smith Company Shoemobile". |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The marriage of bachelor President Grover Cleveland to Frances Folsom, his 21-year old ward, in 1886 captured the nation's romantic imagination, a sentimen... |
| Date: | 01 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Helen Johnson, tailoring instructor, and Mrs. Edwin (Gertrude) Johnson, student, at Madison Vocational and Adult Education School, 211-213 North Carroll St... |
| Date: | 03 26 1926 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by the Tams Music Library parks outside a large brick building with an arched entrance. Above the entrance is the address, "305... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Children of unemployed members of the Amalgamated Clothing workers picket with their parents to protest low-wage clothing imports. They carry signs that re... |
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| Description: | The factory of William E. Belles, with the text, "William E. Belles MFGR of Men's and Boy's Night Robes". |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Plymouth Fox & Fur Company of Plymouth, Wisconsin, breeders of silver black foxes, with a halftone image of a fox. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of O.E. Fitch & Company, "Hatters and Gents' Furnishers," of Madison, Wisconsin, with a man's long-sleeved shirt with a banded collar, front pla... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of William Beattie, a boot and shoe manufacturer and dealer from Portage, Wisconsin, who also dealt in leather, findings, and "Patent Leggings. ... |
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| Description: | Billhead of Chas. Bigelow & Company of Milwaukee, a manufacturer and dealer in boots, shoes, and leather, with an elephant wearing cuffed boots and a tasse... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the F. Mayer Boot & Shoe Company of Milwaukee, manufacturers of and dealers in footwear, with an elevated, three-quarter view of the Mayer co... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of J.O. Gilbert of Blair, Wisconsin, a jewelry and silver dealer who also dealt in books, stationery, and tobacco. Features a pocket watch with ... |
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| Description: | Woman posing outdoors standing next to an advertisement for the A.F. Werner Store, which is attached to a sleigh on a snow-covered street. The large poster... |
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| Description: | Small girl posed outdoors on a fur rug in front of an advertisement for the A.F. Werner Store. The poster is attached to a sleigh on a snow-covered street,... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street of businesses along the right side. A young boy stands with a shovel near a pile of gravel near the barbershop, which has a barber's ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a young man and an older woman in a clothing shop. The woman is pointing at the young man, and the sales clerk s... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman and a man using spinning wheels in a textile factory. In her journal Carrie describes the conditions of these factories in China as crowded and wit... |
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