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Business District of Laona

Date: 1941
Description: Leona street scene with parked cars in front of Connor's Big Department Store and the Hotel Gordon, photographed sometime during the summer of 1941. Soon...
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Department Store Interior

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Description: Several men and women standing inside a department store next to tables piled with bolts of fabric. The store has a pressed tin ceiling.
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City Hall and Parkway Theatre on Mifflin Street

Date: 1954
Description: View looking west down Mifflin Street showing the old City Hall, the Parkway Theater, and Manchesters Department Store. Automobiles are parked at an angle ...
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World War II Bond Sale

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Three women buying war bonds at Manchester's Department Store while two clerks ring up the sale. The three women are all wearing fur coats, as it is a spec...
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World War II Bond Sale

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter ring up the sales.
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Woman Buying War Bond from Santa Claus

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Woman buying a war bond from Santa Claus, who was helping other Manchester employees wait on crowds of purchasers at the bonds-only sale on the store's mai...
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H.S. Manchester's Co. Inc. Homecoming Window

Date: 11 06 1946
Description: Manchester's University of Wisconsin homecoming window display showing three female mannequins wearing formal dresses.
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Heidelberg Hofbrau Restaurant after Fire

Date: 12 06 1946
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...
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H.S. Manchester Inc., Valentine Nylon Stocking Window Display

Date: 01 27 1947
Description: H.S. Manchester Inc., department store Valentine Day Berkshire hosiery, nylon stockings, window display.
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Pettibone Peabody Retail Store

Date: 1909
Description: Front view of the Pettibone Peabody retail store. A large store with four stories situated on a corner. An automobile is at the curb and pedestrians on the...
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Manchester's Store Interior

Date: 03 12 1947
Description: Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer.
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Women's Hats Display Window

Date: 04 01 1947
Description: Carmen's, 9 South Pinckney, women's clothing store, featuring a display window of hats for the Carroll Hat Company.
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Manchester's Show Window

Date: 11 02 1956
Description: Show window at H.S. Manchester, Inc. department store, located at 2 East Mifflin Street. On display are La Resista corsets, including one mannequin.
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H.S. Manchester Inc., Sewing Notions Window

Date: 09 23 1947
Description: H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, display window promoting "National Notion Week" and displaying items (notions) used for sewing.
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Manchester's Vogue Show Window

Date: 10 01 1947
Description: H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, show window displaying the Vogue "1947 look" in women's clothing. Includes a mannequin dressed in the 1947 lon...
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Hub Men's Clothing Store

Date: 09 16 1948
Description: Front view of store window of Hub Clothing Store, 22 West Mifflin Street, featuring men's clothing and accessories.
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H.S. Manchester Inc., Stationery Window

Date: 09 18 1948
Description: Store window of H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, featuring Crane stationery. Sign reads: "The Here's How of Crane fine stationery." Photographs...
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Hub Clothing Company Arrow Shirt Window Display

Date: 01 19 1949
Description: Hub Clothing Company, 22 West Mifflin Street, window display featuring "Arrow" white shirts and ties, with a special display of collar styles.
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Master Furriers Mink Fur Display Window

Date: 03 29 1949
Description: Show window containing a mannequin wearing a mink stole, and a display of mink pelts and dressed skins at Master Furriers, 11 West Main Street.
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H.S. Manchester Inc., Bra & Girdle Display Window

Date: 03 30 1949
Description: Display window at H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, showing Perma-Lift brassieres and girdles, "The Lift That Never Lets You Down," "No Bones Ab...

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