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| 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: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Annie Simmons and her four children are enjoying a "picnic" on the floor at Baron Brothers Department Store after the fire in the tenement-type house at 15... |
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| Description: | Interior of a general store displaying various merchandise in glass cases, shelves and counters. |
| Date: | 01 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Austin Thorson, winner of a $100 prize in a Lipton Tea Co. jingle contest, also won $1,200 worth of groceries from the Kroger Co. by writing the address of... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of a box produced by The Singer Manufacturing Company, which holds "Costumes of All Nations" souvenir cards, created for the 1893 World's Columbian E... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | International Harvester employee M. Steele reachING over a table of hor d'oeuvres at an International truck sales meeting. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | An International Harvester refrigerator with all doors open sits against a wall. The refrigerator has two drawers, a small freezer, and food. Bottles and c... |
| Date: | 11 27 1970 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the Green Lantern Eating Cooperative on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In addition to being an eating cooperative, The Gree... |
| Date: | 05 18 1950 |
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| Description: | Display window featuring a mannequin in a bridal gown and household items at Wolff Kubly Hirsig Hardware Store, 17 South Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | The buffet table at the Governor's residence is set up to welcome a group of nationally-known travel editors to Wisconsin. The buffet table includes an "Am... |
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| Description: | Dining area of the Walter & Mary Rudin House, 110 Marinette Trail, an example of Erdman #2, a Frank Lloyd Wright-design prefabricated house marketed and co... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A publicity photograph of a bespectacled young woman, in a 1960s mod-style dress, examining a jar of Smucker's strawberry preserves in an aisle of a grocer... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Food Administration Design No. 4, "Smiling Grocer." The poster features the neighborhood grocer with an apron and a pencil tucked behind his ear agains... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Unidentified young woman holding a large candle near a display of candles next to the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library. Bikes are parked in... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed man sits in a chair in a Schwaller Music Store on Pine Street. Various pianos are on display. There are signs for Sohmer Pianos and New Home... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Window display in an unknown storefront featuring American flags, and silhouettes of Uncle Sam and Kaiser Wilhelm II and asking the question "Are you eatin... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Display in an unknown storefront urging food conservation. The display features small figures made out of vegetables. |
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