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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: | 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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking northwest from Division Street and East Water Street. Rooftop of building in foreground has laundry hanging from a line. In the back... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I poster urging newly arrived immigrants to conserve food to aid the allied cause. People in ethnic costume being ushered into the United States ... |
| Date: | 04 07 2006 |
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| Description: | "Scoot Pastorius is shown with our Fish Fry's outside of J.O.'s, at 334 Main Street, Kewaskum. J.O.'s is primarily a take-out business." |
| Date: | 04 17 2009 |
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| Description: | "Bill and Stel's on Highway E in Eureka. A birthday party was going on for 'Barbara,' and cars passing by were asked to honk their horns." |
| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | An intersection with townhouse on the left and a hotel on the right. There is a group of people on the porch of the townhouse and a horse and carriage park... |
| Date: | 02 1989 |
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| Description: | Outdoor gathering of men, women and children cooking cranberries in a large kettle, perhaps at a winter festival. |
| 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: | 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... |
| 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: | 1996 |
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| Description: | "Evangeline Koll and Arlene Beck ride the float in the Allenton Firemen's Picnic Parade." |
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