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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... |
| Date: | 02 14 1985 |
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| Description: | A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Counters and display cases show goods for sale in the General Store. |
| Date: | 11 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Singer Sewing Machine Company store, 325 State Street, and Sherwin Williams Paint and Wallpaper Store, 327-329 State Street, with a billboard on top of the... |
| Date: | 10 28 1935 |
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| Description: | Display of Salem china, Tricorne pattern, in the lobby of the Eastwood Theater, 2094 Atwood Avenue. "China Night, every Tuesday, one piece free to each lad... |
| 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Fundraising booth of the United Temperance Movement of Wisconsin at the Wisconsin State Fair. At that booth one could purchase soft drinks, milk, and "fir... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing by a cooler with a beer bottle in her hand at Reed's Cafe near a stove and countertop. Original caption states: "McCormick-Deering 6 ca... |
| Date: | 11 28 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Edmund Hart, Miss Peggy Elvehjem, and Mrs. Harold Kubly serve as chairmen for the University of Wisconsin YWCA Christmas Bazaar to be held in the lobb... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | A child is sitting in a shopping cart while her mother is looking over frozen goods at a grocery store. |
| Date: | 06 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Security State Bank presented children with ice cream cones in recognition of June Dairy Month. Leo Lunenschloss, bank president, is looking on as Sarah Ho... |
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