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Delivering Milk with International C-15 Truck

Date: 09 23 1936
Description: Milkman unloading crates from an International C-15 truck in front of "Tecumseh Cabins Lunches, & Coffee". The front of the restaurant and store features s...
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Roadside Milk Bar

Date: 09 11 1945
Description: Interior of Roadside Milk Bar with soda fountain, service island, and booths. The business was located on Middleton Road (University Avenue), just before t...
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Kober's Root Beer and Ice Cream Bar

Date: 09 11 1945
Description: Kober's Root Beer and Ice Cream Bar, 2237 Sherman Avenue, with menu displayed on exterior and Coca-Cola, Borden's Ice Cream and Hires Root Beer signs.
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Interior of Ice Cream Bar

Date: 09 11 1945
Description: Ice Cream Bar interior, on Milwaukee Street, showing fountain, and booths along the all on the left, with several people sitting.
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Harp & Kettle Cheese House Restaurant

Date: 09 05 1954
Description: Harp & Kettle Cheese House drive-in restaurant and store, 310 E. Broadway, includes two cars in the parking lot.
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Harp & Kettle Cheese House Restaurant

Date: 09 05 1954
Description: Harp & Kettle Cheese House drive-in restaurant and store, 310 E. Broadway. Two cars are in the parking lot.
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Kober's Dairy Bar

Date: 11 24 1947
Description: Kober's Dairy Bar drive-in restaurant, 2237 Sherman Avenue. Also shows the Borden Company truck.
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Kober's Dairy Bar Interior

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: Interior of Kober's Dairy Bar drive-in restaurant, 2237 Sherman Avenue, with octagonal shaped counter. Windows are along the wall in the background.
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Kober's Dairy Bar Interior

Date: 12 28 1947
Description: Interior of Kober's Dairy Bar drive-in restaurant, 2237 N. Sherman Avenue, showing the back bar with signs for menu items and prices.
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Kober's Dairy Bar

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: Kober's Dairy Bar drive-in restaurant, 2237 Sherman Avenue.
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Harp and Kettle Cheese House Restaurant

Date: 09 04 1954
Description: Close-up of the Harp and Kettle Cheese House drive-in restaurant and store with roadside sign advertising "Aged Cheese, Retail, Mail Orders, Gift Boxes."
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Snow & Palmer Company Truck

Date: 08 16 1926
Description: A man stands outside an International Model S truck used to deliver Snow & Palmer dairy products. Text on the truck reads: "for clean, pasteurized milk" an...
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Heafford Junction Service Station Detail (Windmill Ice Cream Shoppe)

Date: 2008
Description: The windmill structure continues to attract travelers, but not for gasoline or bait, but for ice cream.
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Drummond Street Scene

Date: 1937
Description: View across road of a man and a dog standing on the front stoop of a one-story building that has a sign that reads “Art’s Lunches and Confectionery, Ask fo...
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Hawksworth Ice Cream Parlor

Date: 1910
Description: A group of five young women sit at tables in the Hawksworth Ice Cream Parlor. The woman in the center has been identified as Josephine Edith McEvoy (later ...
Poster

L'Etoile Restaurant Festival from the Heartland Menu Poster

Date: 09 1995
Description: Letterpress menu poster for the American Dairy Goat Products Association Festival from the Heartland annual conference, goat cheese and milk judging, and c...
Print

Rennebohm Menu

Date: 
Description: Front cover and interior pages of menu from Rennebohm's. The front cover features a wood-grain background with a silhouette of a cup of coffee. Interior pa...
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Visiting Japanese Students at Leon's Frozen Custard

Date: 1980
Description: View across parking lot towards a group of Japanese woman posing in front of Leon's Frozen Custard. Caption reads: "Visiting Japanese students posed in fro...
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Chocolate House

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street, at the intersection with West Gilman Street, towards a brick building containing three businesses, including the Chocolate House,...

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