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| Date: | 05 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Frank Brothers grocery store at 611 University Avenue, display window showing Duff's Waffle Mix. |
| 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 1937 |
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| Description: | Window display of Ovenex baking tinware at Woolworth's, 1 East Main Street. |
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| Description: | Northwest corner of Main Street and Water Street. Woman with an infant in a buggy and a boy walking on Main Street in front of stores and M. Weber Restaura... |
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| Description: | Baby in buggy on the west side of South First Street. Image shows the intersection of First and Main Streets. Storefronts identified, from left to right, ... |
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| Description: | Display of doilies for sale in a store window. |
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| Description: | The Ludington Building, built in 1881 on the southeast corner of North Plankinton Avenue and West Wells Street, featuring the Singer Sewing Machine store. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A man in a suit waits for a hot dog that a man is preparing. Metal steps painted blue rise behind the customer on the left. |
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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. |
| 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: | 12 22 1937 |
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| Description: | A tea seller squats with his wares on a sidewalk in Tripoli, Libya. This photograph was taken by American journalist Cecil Brown, who had a great affinity ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Miss Graumann, far left, poses with four dressmakers in front of her shop. A sign on the right side of the door states "Dressmaking, Miss Annie Graumann".... |
| Date: | 02 15 1915 |
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| Description: | A pyramid of stacked canned goods at an Alabama store. Original caption reads: "The people of Alabama are artistically inclined as evidenced by the car loa... |
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| Description: | View of a woman posing sitting on the porch of a wooden building and sewing a hat, probably a milliner in front of her shop. A small girl is sitting in a r... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Murphy Products Company, with a three-quarter view of the company building and trucks, automobiles, and a train nearby, flanked on either... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the E.R. Godfrey & Sons Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a red belt with a silver buckle across the top left. Examples of the company's ... |
| Date: | 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Dogs in a car being fed ice cream cones by a man standing on the sidewalk and a woman sitting inside the car. The car is a Rambler Custom. Across the stree... |
| Date: | 09 1990 |
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| Description: | View of Rock River Street during the annual outdoor concert. |
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