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Spoo and Son Employees

Date: 10 28 1954
Description: The Spoo and Son men's clothing store is being turned over by its president, Erwin M. Spoo (left), to six employees. They include, from left to right, E. W...
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Scene on Main Street

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Description: View across street towards a man sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse coming down a city street. There are storefronts along the opposite side of th...
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Woman and Man using Spinning Wheels

Date: 1910
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...
Photograph

Main and First Streets; Looking North

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Description: View towards the intersection of First and Main Streets. Several horses are being gathered by a group of men. A black dog is in the foreground.
Photograph

Coat Trade-In for Charities

Date: 12 23 1964
Description: Mendota State Hospital and Catholic Charities benefited from a trade-in sale at Carmen's Coat Store. Carmen's gave area women a discount on new coats, rang...
Postcard

James G. Dunn Grocery

Date: 1900
Description: Photographic postcard of the James G. Dunn Grocery, with William John Dunn standing on the left and Maggie (O'Hare) Dunn on the right.

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Drawing

"Your Next Strike!"

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Description: Advertisement for Ole's men's clothing store. It shows a bowling pin with a smiling face and waving arms dressed in a bowling shirt with the embroidered na...
Photograph

Selling Trump Merchandise

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: Two African American men are attaching buttons to a display on the hood of a car in a parking lot outside the Donald Trump rally. T-shirts and hats bearing...
Photograph

Roundy Coughlin at The HUB

Date: 05 06 1953
Description: Ad for WMTV showing Roundy Coughlin signing a contract with The HUB, his TV sponsor. Pictured with Roundy are Ed Schmitz, Jim Schmitz and Bob Schmitz, own...
Photograph

Delivery Truck

Date: 12 12 1927
Description: View across street towards two men sitting in the cab of a delivery truck. The sign on the truck reads: "Francis Rogers & Sons, Inc." There is a store with...
Postcard

West Side Main Street

Date: 1909
Description: View across unpaved street towards a city block, (Williams Block) lined with businesses. They include: H.A. Kypke Dry Goods, Heimstreets Drug Store, and a ...
Photograph

Milwaukee Braves Branch Ticket Office

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: View looking down at a line of men and women waiting to buy tickets to Milwaukee Braves baseball games at the branch ticket office located in the basement ...
Photograph

Milwaukee Braves Branch Ticket Office

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: View down the line of people waiting to buy tickets for Milwaukee Braves baseball games at The Hub clothing store in downtown Madison, where the branch tic...
Photograph

Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Arthur Dier smiles approval as his fiancee, Evelyn Schaefer, asks his opinion of a bright flowery Easter hat at a Madison store. Ms. Schaefer, in the foreg...
Photograph

Successful Small-Town Businesswoman

Date: 10 08 1957
Description: Anne Marshall Kleist with her husband, Al, ready to close up her ladies' ready-to-wear and accessories store, Kleist and Wiggs, for the day.
Print

David Adler

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Description: Lithographic portrait of David Adler, a retail clothier, one of the organizers of the Wisconsin National Bank, one of the founders and a vice-president of ...
Print

Isaac D. Adler

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Description: Lithographic caricature of Isaac D. Adler, a clothing wholesaler. Isaac was one of four brothers who operated David Adler & Son Co.
Print

Samuel D. Adler

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Description: Lithographic caricature of Samuel D. Adler, a clothier and one of four brothers who operated David Adler & Son Co. He is depicted here playing golf.
Photograph

Solomon Adler

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Description: Engraving of a portrait of Solomon Adler, a clothing merchant and brother to David Adler. He assisted in conducting the first Jewish service in Wisconsin, ...

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