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| Date: | 02 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Girls being weighed to determine their donations of a penny a pound to the YWCA camp. |
| Date: | 10 11 1981 |
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| Description: | Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop. |
| Date: | 07 09 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman shopping in the produce department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She was promoting the Oscar Mayer Health for Victor... |
| Date: | 04 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Four employees behind the meat counter in the North Street Market, 227 North Street. |
| Date: | 02 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men in CUNA (Credit Union National Association) mailing room, Raiffeisen House, located at 142 East Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, 2427 University Avenue, with a woman weighing items on an old balance beam scale. |
| Date: | 01 31 1931 |
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| Description: | Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai... |
| Date: | 05 20 1928 |
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| Description: | A man weighing a milk can on an old scale at the Pet Milk Company. |
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| Description: | At Lou Braslawsky's kosher meat market, a butcher holds a roast for a customer to examine. A sign at the back of the store suggests that chickens, not beef... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Irene Steinkopf, a former Milwaukee journalist, shops for sausage in Vienna where her husband had been assigned by the Associated Press. A bit much for two... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Farm produce for sale from farm trucks at the Municipal Market on the Capitol Square. The Municipal market was established by a committee of women in July,... |
| Date: | 07 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Bethany Methodist Youth Fellowship "weigh in" to determine what their contribution will be to the United Nations Children's Fund. Karen... |
| Date: | 05 12 1953 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the Cardinal Market, 120 N. Fairchild Street, taken for their Grand Opening of the newly modernized store. |
| Date: | 05 1939 |
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| Description: | View down median of road towards a truck parked on the scales of a weigh station in the center of Highway 41 just north of the Wisconsin/Illiinois state li... |
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| Description: | A man, standing with a sack on a scale, and a woman, also holding a sack, are each holding one fist up in the air. The woman's sack reads: "Queremos pan ti... |
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