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Bates Bedspreads and Draperies

Date: 08 18 1953
Description: Emporium Department Store window display of Bates bedspreads and draperies with sign that reads: "Back to School."
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Mink "Blue Jeans"

Date: 11 01 1954
Description: A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ...
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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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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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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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Sears, Roebuck, and Company Profit Sharingstein

Date: 02 24 1961
Description: Five employees of Sears, Roebuck, and Company who have a stake in the company's profit-sharing plan. Controller, R. L. Roidt holds up a graphic illustratio...

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