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Filter: Creator Name of Stein, George H., 1913-2004
| Date: | 01 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., Paris hats window display, "Authentic Copies and Adaptations." |
| Date: | 12 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., window display featuring Kenwood blankets. |
| Date: | 09 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., window #6 featuring "Tomorrow is here with Textron" fabric made into aprons, makeup cape, and blanket bag. The mannequin is wearing an ... |
| Date: | 09 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., window #5 featuring: "Tomorrow is here with Textron" fabric made into draperies and bed spread. |
| Date: | 09 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., window #4 featuring: "Tomorrow is here with Textron" fabrics for lingerie and bathrobes. Mannequins are wearing bathrobes. |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Hat department on Manchester's, Inc., second floor. A sign in the foreground, perhaps on a window, reads in reverse: "Dresses." |
| Date: | 02 09 1944 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., fabric window #1, showing "perfectly matched prints and solid colors" by Wesley Simpson. |
| Date: | 01 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Montgomery Ward Company phonograph record department, 215 State Street. |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Harry S. Manchester's Inc., with window display of spring hats. The store was located at located at 2-6 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 04 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Woman holding iron and demonstrating the Pres Kloth (a pressing cloth) in Manchester's Department store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 06 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Manchesters Inc. display window containing two mannequins wearing "Petti" bathing suits, and a life-size poster of a girl in a "Petti" bathing suit. |
| Date: | 07 30 1946 |
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| Description: | Remodeling of Montague building at 8-12 East Mifflin Street for expansion of Manchesters Department Store and the Madison Room restaurant. Businesses prev... |
| Date: | 08 24 1946 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchesters Inc. window display featuring fur hats for back to college. Display contains sign saying: "Furs go to your head." |
| Date: | 04 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman irons to demonstrate how to use the Pres Kloth (an ironing aid) in Manchester's Department store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 12 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Heidelberg Hofbrau Restaurant, exterior view, with crowds of people looking at aftermath of a fire, 20 West Mifflin Street. Also shows The Hub, a mens' clo... |
| Date: | 01 27 1947 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester Inc., department store Valentine Day Berkshire hosiery, nylon stockings, window display. |
| Date: | 09 15 1949 |
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| Description: | J & S shoe display window at The Hub, men's clothing store, 22 West Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 12 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, display window featuring Fruit of the Loom woman's nylon stockings and signs stating: "Sheer Beauty at its Best,... |
| Date: | 03 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Gossard corsets, girdles and bras display in Manchester's, Inc., store window No. 3, 2 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 03 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Frostman's woolens window display with two mannequins wearing suits in Manchester's, Inc., corner window #4, taken from Wisconsin Avenue. |
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