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Meat Market Display

Date: 1939
Description: Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display.
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Sweet's Food Shop

Date: 08 28 1931
Description: Exterior view of Sweet's Food Shop, located at 354 West Main Street.
Manuscript

Interior View of Eilert's Farm Equipment Company

Date: 1938
Description: Interior view from the southeast corner of Eilert's Farm Equipment company showing a floor display of farm machinery.
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Grocery Convention Display

Date: 1933
Description: The Fauerbach Beer display at the Grocery Convention. The display consists of many bottles of beer, beer cases, die cut cardboard displays, cloth bunting a...
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The Hub Clothing Store

Date: 04 19 1932
Description: Exterior of the Hub clothing store, located at 22-24 West Mifflin Street. A sign reads: "Society Brand Clothes and Florsheim Shoes." Second floor windows h...
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Fall Festival Entertainers

Date: 09 08 1930
Description: Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival.
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Riley-Bremer-Riley Garage

Date: 10 11 1930
Description: The Riley-Bremer-Riley Oldsmobile garage on E. Doty Street began as the Riley Livery Stable when horse-drawn transportation reigned and then transitioned t...
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Olson & Veerhusen

Date: 05 22 1934
Description: Exterior of the Olson and Veerhusen men's store and tailoring shop located at 7-9 North Pinckney Street.
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Simpson's Clothing Store

Date: 06 11 1934
Description: Simpson's women's clothing store, with Art Deco sign, located at 23-25 Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square.
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Strauss Shoes and W.T. Grant Building

Date: 06 22 1935
Description: Art Deco building housing Strauss's Shoes at 19 S. Pinckney Street, and the W.T. Grant Company Department Store, located at 21-23 S. Pinckney Street on the...
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Kraft Cheese Display

Date: 12 08 1933
Description: A Kraft cheese display at the Kroger Store located at 3 Pinckney Street.
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Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy

Date: 1938
Description: Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy, with proprietor, assistant, customer and mailman standing among numerous retail displays and a McCormick-Deering "four in lin...
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F-20 Tractor in Dealership Showroom

Date: 01 13 1937
Description: Two salesmen (C. Scheler and son?) posing with a new Farmall F-20 tractor inside the dealership of C. Scheler and Son.
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Grocery Display

Date: 1934
Description: Cans and boxes of Hershey's chocolate products arranged in pyramids on the grocery floor.
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Kresge's Baby Shop

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated interior view of the baby department at Kresge's store.
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Sandra's Millinery Shop Window

Date: 12 13 1939
Description: Window display of mannequin heads wearing hats in Sandra's Exclusive Millinery Shop, 101 State Street.
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Pear Display

Date: 11 07 1939
Description: Display of pears from Blue Anchor California Fruit Exchange in window of Frank Brothers, Inc., 609-613 University Avenue.
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Gus Larson Storefront

Date: 11 24 1939
Description: Gustave A. Larson storefront, 205 E. Main Street. Wholesale refrigeration parts and Texeco Capella Oil.
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Corona Typewriter Window

Date: 10 09 1939
Description: Display of Corona typewriters in the window of Student Book Exchange, 712 State Street.
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Union News Company Merchandise Display

Date: 05 06 1939
Description: Small Union News Company merchandise display case. The display features dolls and stuffed animals at the Chicago & Northwestern Train Depot, 219 South Bla...

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