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Larry Borenstein Selling Women's Shoes

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, answering a woman's questions at the Borenstein Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. She is sitting on a couc...
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Larry Borenstein Selling Women's Shoes

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, assisting a customer at Borenstein's Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. A young man, perhaps a sales assist...
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Portrait of Larry Borenstein

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Quarter-length portrait of shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, who worked in the family department store, Borenstein's Dry Goods Store, located in the Atwood ...
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Two Boys Exploring Toyland Before Christmas

Date: 12 1954
Description: Jeff and Gregg Anderson snuggled in bed ready to dream of Christmas toys before visiting the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland.
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Two Boys Exploring Toyland Before Christmas

Date: 12 1954
Description: Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing on a drum set at the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. On the drum face is an image of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco.
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Two Boys Exploring Toyland Before Christmas

Date: 12 1954
Description: Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing cowboys with plastic tommy guns at Toyland, the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store.
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Two Boys Exploring Toyland Before Christmas

Date: 12 1954
Description: Wearing helmets, Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing with a football in the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. They are in an aisle displaying rocking chairs, ...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ...
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Manchester's Advertising Department Views Printing Press

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Five women wearing folded newspaper hats while viewing a large printing press on a tour at Madison Newspapers Inc. The five women from the advertising depa...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: A man holding a paper-wrapped package under his arm pauses while shopping to watch the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater on the Madison C...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Two men are watching from a shady spot in Capitol Park as buildings are being demolished to make way for a J.C. Penney store. The photograph was taken with...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: An observer leans on a parking meter on Monona Avenue to watch the demolition of the Madison Theater to make way for a new building to house a J.C. Penney ...
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Hey Goblins, You'd Better Watch Out

Date: 10 26 1957
Description: "Free punki'ns" are being given to children by the Madison Sears store and the Y Men's Club of the YMCA. The pumpkins are to be carved and entered in a con...
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Teachers Convention in Madison

Date: 02 14 1958
Description: Teachers window shopping between sessions of the 66th Annual Southern Wisconsin Education Area convention. Left to right standing under the awning are Ele...
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Teachers Convention in Madison

Date: 02 14 1958
Description: A teacher from Baraboo holding up a parking ticket she had received, as her colleagues from Baraboo are standing nearby, smiling and pointing. The side of ...
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Two Baby Penguins

Date: 12 26 1958
Description: Onlookers look at two new baby penguins in the display window at the Wolff, Kubly, and Hirsig store on Madison's Capitol square. They will later by taken t...
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Ribbon Cutting at Penny's

Date: 02 19 1959
Description: Lieutenant Governor Philleo Nash, center, cutting the ribbon to open the new million dollar J.C. Penney Co. department store located on the Capitol Square ...
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Reproduction of a 1901 Oldsmobile on Display

Date: 03 11 1959
Description: A reproduction of a 1901 Oldsmobile at Pyramid Motor Company, 434 West Gilman Street. It is owned by Sears Roebuck and Company and is part of an open house...
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Mrs. Jessie E. Manchester and Morgan Manchester

Date: 11 03 1960
Description: Jessie E. Manchester, widow of merchant Harry S. Manchester, and her son, Morgan Manchester, president of Manchester's, at the grand opening of the firm's ...
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Manchester's Third Store Opening

Date: 11 03 1960
Description: Jessie E. Manchester, widow of merchant Harry S. Manchester, prepares to snip the ribbon officially opening the third store at the Westgate Shopping Center...

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