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| Date: | 11 29 1913 |
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| Description: | Park near hotels and Gimbels building. Caption reads: "View N.E. from C. M. & St. P. Depot". Presently, it is Zeidler Union Square on W. Everett Street bet... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Espenhain's department store located on the northwest corner of N. 4th Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles, ... |
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| Description: | F.W. Woolworth Company and other commercial buildings on the southwest corner of N. 3rd Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue. Pedestrians are walking on the side... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Looking west on W. Wisconsin Avenue from N. 3rd Street, featuring Woolworth's, Boston Store, and the Schroeder Hotel. An Edgewood-bound bus is stopped in f... |
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| Description: | Looking south on N. 3rd Street from W. North Avenue. Bauch goods and other unidentified businesses visible on 3rd Street. There are automobiles and streetc... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of the Hudson Bay Company department store in Alberta, Canada, celebrating the centennial anniversary of the reaper's invention. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Sign on street is protesting the Gimbels department store. Underneath the large text, it reads, "Gimbels, in building over the already inadequate 86 IRT Le... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of the Sears-Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. The portion of East Washington in front of the store is full of parked automobiles. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of Yost-Kessinich Department Store at 201 State Street. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin street looking west, with the Gimbels sign on the building in the background. Text on postcard reads: "Wisconsin St. & Railway Exchange Bldg., Mi... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Joseph Rothschild, manager; Bertha Atkinson, buyer and Freda Kitson, saleswoman opened the children's and infants' department at Baron Brothers Department ... |
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| Description: | Snowy Milwaukee street with the Edgewood streetcar, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages. Men and women are passing by a clock on the sidewalk. A Gimbels... |
| Date: | 06 26 1906 |
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| Description: | Group of salespeople standing in front of The Big Store. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians in shopping district. Cars are parked and a streetcar is coming down the street. |
| Date: | 11 28 1952 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the nearly-full automated parking ramp at H.S. Manchester's Department Store. Several cars can be seen driving along Wisconsin A... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 paraded on Wisconsin Avenue to draw attention to the fact that employees of the Packer Packing ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Bridge over the Chagrin river and falls in town with surrounding buildings and an advertisement for the May company. |
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| Description: | Street scene with parked and moving vehicles. Buildings are along the left side and a line of trees and lampposts is along the right. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The storefront of the J.C. Penney store, 127 Third Street. There are summer clothes, hats, and shoes for men and women in the display windows. There is a h... |
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