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| Date: | 10 23 1924 |
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| Description: | Boy sitting in a "McFarlan" toy car as two men and a woman are looking on. The group appears to be in a toy store or toy department, with other toy cars, a... |
| Date: | 12 1940 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin athletes trying on shoes in the Walk-Over Shoe Store, 8 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 10 05 1936 |
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| Description: | Woman, winner of radio contest, standing next to a Grunow floor model radio. Banner reads: "Grunow Teledial, the self-tuning radio" at the University Radio... |
| Date: | 01 06 1932 |
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| Description: | A man builds a Ferris wheel with an Erector set at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Company, located at 17 S. Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on a city street surrounded by onlookers, perhaps a parade or some other public event. Two of the men in the street are carrying photography... |
| Date: | 09 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of customers standing in line on the sidewalk waiting to purchase shotgun shells at Berg Sporting Goods Store, 2123 Atwood Avenue. O... |
| Date: | 12 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Jancie Cordes, DeForest, with unidentified woman looking at a display of stuffed animals (at Wolff, Kubly, and Hirsig). |
| Date: | 11 27 1948 |
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| Description: | In front of Manchester's Department Store, Santa Claus waves to the children from his yellow Ercoupe airplane as he rides in a parade sponsored by the Madi... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15... |
| Date: | 12 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Three female models that took part in a fashion show for the Wisconsin All-State Football Squad during a dinner at Manchester's Madison Room, shown with fi... |
| Date: | 06 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Cornelius "Connie" Ryan, Madison Soap Box Derby participant, receiving money from Jim Schmitz, a representative of Connie's sponsor, The Hub, 22 West Miffl... |
| Date: | 06 29 1949 |
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| Description: | A truckload of canoes in front of Madison Marine Service, 2102 Atwood Avenue, with eight employees standing in front. In the background is the Ben Franklin... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Several people peer into a storefront window on Capitol Square. This window shopping is perhaps in preparation for the Christmas holiday. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Me and women line the sidewalks to watch an International Harvester parade float go by. The float is decorated with uniformed men in a jeep, and palm trees... |
| Date: | 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Men and women stand on either side of a street to watch an International truck used as a float for the Naval Air Tech Training Center as part of a Navy Day... |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | Al Decker, manager of Cushman Hobbyland at 2628 University Avenue, and Johnny Schaffer measure a sign for the company to see if it will fit on the racer th... |
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| Description: | Two women with ski equipment stand in the entrance of a building with a sign overhead reading, "Ski Shop." A man and a woman stand inside the shop looking ... |
| Date: | 12 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Two young boys, one with Loftstrand-style crutches most likely due to polio, are looking at a window display. The Packers were about to play for, and would... |
| Date: | 12 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Two teenage boys stand on the sidewalk looking at an art store window display featuring illustrations of the Packer players. The Packers were about to play... |
| Date: | 12 29 1961 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the window display for Newman's "The Store of Fashions," which featured numerous "Titletown U.S.A." signs. The Packers were abou... |
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