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Alimony Payment

Date: 09 19 1958
Description: County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband.
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Grocery Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter.
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Rennebohm Drugstore Clerk with Mennen Baby Oil

Date: 10 24 1944
Description: Rennebohm drugstore clerk displaying bottle of Mennen antiseptic baby oil.
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Pharmacist and Pharmacy Clerk

Date: 10 24 1944
Description: Rennebohm drugstore pharmacist showing a bottle of Pepto Bismol to a clerk.
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Blaney Farms Bookkeeper

Date: 05 05 1947
Description: Blaney Farms bookkeeper at a desk in the office.
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Grocery Store Checkout Counter

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Two clerks at a grocery store checkout counter with a woman and child purchasing milk and bread. The shelves behind the register are stocked with a selecti...
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Women's Service Exchange

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: Berta Newel serves a customer, Hazel Van Wagene, at her new job as a clerk in the yard goods department of Yost's-Kessenich's store. Mrs. Newell received e...
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The Mart

Date: 02 18 1978
Description: "The Mart. Mrs. Karl Hoff tends the drugstore in its 'Going Out of Business Sale.'"
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Sears Profit Sharing Employees

Date: 02 18 1956
Description: Group portrait of the nine members longest in standing in the Madison Sears, Roebuck and Company "savings and profit-sharing pension fund." They are, left ...
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Man and Woman in Drugstore

Date: 1960
Description: A man and woman stand behind the service counter at a drugstore.
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Chris Hyldegard

Date: 1955
Description: Chris Hyldegard, owner of Whispering Pines, sitting behind a glass display case. The picnic area at Whispering Pines was donated in 1977 by Mrs. & Mrs. Chr...
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Clerk Sitting at Desk at Osborne Works

Date: 08 04 1913
Description: A man wearing glasses is seated at a cluttered wooden desk at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind him are file dr...
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Office Clerks at Fort Wayne Works

Date: 04 1929
Description: Two men, possibly clerks, sit on either side of a desk working on papers in an office at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. There is a phone, stamp...
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Mt. Victory General Store

Date: 1962
Description: A transaction takes place between a truck driver and an employee of the Mt. Victory truck stop, or service plaza.
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Service Counter at Mt. Victory Service Plaza

Date: 1962
Description: Two men speak across the service counter at Mt. Victory truck stop. Several posters and a map hang on the wall, and a cash register sits on the counter.
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Mt. Victory Service Plaza Store

Date: 1962
Description: A man sits behind the counter of the Mt. Victory truck stop general store. Shoes and boots are arranged on the counter in front of him, and various items a...
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Clerks Post Latest Stock Quotations at Broker's Office

Date: 12 12 1958
Description: Clerks in a Madison broker's office post the latest stock quotations on a board. Almost all of Madison's eleven investment brokerage firms reported small i...
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Group in front of General Store Counter

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Description: A general store counter at Weigands Bay. Two women are behind the counter, with boxes of cigars on display behind them. Other canned goods are on the shelv...
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Manchester's Style Show

Date: 02 28 1941
Description: Manchester's Department Store style show. Photographer and clerk are behind crowd.
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We Saw You . . . at Lawmaker School

Date: 01 12 1955
Description: Former State Assemblymen Herman Eisner of Cross Plains (left) and Harry Holmes of Landcaster (right) serving as journal clerks to "keep the books" for the ...

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