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| Date: | 11 24 1933 |
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| Description: | View from center aisle of Hommel's Cooking School set up on the Parkway Theater stage, 6-10 W. Mifflin Street. Displayed is a layout of the cooking demonst... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for International Harvester refrigerators and freezers. Depicts a woman wearing an apron over a dress standing near a freezer and refrigerato... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Three girls serving cups of food and bread to children seated at their desks in a Cook County, District 137 classroom. The activity may have been part of t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Counters and display cases show goods for sale in the General Store. |
| Date: | 04 17 1907 |
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| Description: | Large group of men sitting and posing at long dining tables in the Club House of International Harvester's McCormick Works factory. The men are attending t... |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
| Date: | 05 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Window display at Harry S. Manchester's, Inc., 2-6 East Mifflin Street, featuring the "Can-o-mat" can openers, "Can-o-mat, fully automatic, streamlined bea... |
| Date: | 01 03 1938 |
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| Description: | Testing a Westinghouse refrigerator (door open with food inside and woman standing behind the open door) with wires from an Official Test Panel attached to... |
| Date: | 03 31 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Lions Club members seated around tables in the Neighborhood House, 768 W. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 11 20 1933 |
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| Description: | Thanksgiving dining room display window at Burdick & Murray, 15-19 East Main Street. Featuring a mannequin wearing a dress and an apron, linens, china, cry... |
| Date: | 03 10 1932 |
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| Description: | Display window for A & P Special Automatic Egg Cooker (Hankscraft) "available for 98 cents with purchase of 1 dozen Sunnybrook eggs." |
| Date: | 12 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Crysteel Electric Range (stove) display at Park Hotel with mannequin and Santa Claus. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Curt Moore selling "one minute" washing machines to a farmer's wife. The washing machines are loaded in the back of an International "Red Baby" truck. The... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around table, and a man standing with tool on the right. Behind the group is a Greek Revival house that has a sewing machine on the porch. T... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Here Dahl used "The Old Oaken Bucket" motif — a man drinking water from a pail at a well in foreground with family sitting and standing at a table with cof... |
| Date: | 05 09 1949 |
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| Description: | Manchester's "Braid Aid" rug braiding demonstration counter display. |
| Date: | 07 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Struck and Irwin Fuel Company booth, at East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival, in a tent at Olbrich Park, includes charcoal and outdoor charco... |
| Date: | 04 24 1950 |
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| Description: | View from stage towards people sitting at long tables for the Midstate Grocer's Association dinner at Turner Hall. On display on the stage in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A small crowd outside a large tent that adverstises "Reaper Motion Pictures." The tent is likely part of an International Harvester exhibit at a fair or ag... |
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| Description: | Woodblock print of an urban street scene with a clothesline strung between buildings, and a church and a hamburger joint. |
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