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Miniature Models

Date: 04 29 1946
Description: Three miniature models of a youth chair, combination desk-chair (made of wire and a cigarette box) and child sized wheelbarrow, taken for H.M. Wood.
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Leath Furniture Co. Display Window

Date: 04 10 1946
Description: Display window at Leath & Company, furniture store, 117-119 State Street, featuring outdoor furniture displayed outside of a cottage doorway setting.
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Baby Sitting at Child's Training Desk

Date: 09 29 1945
Description: Toddler sitting at child's training desk, with lid closed.
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Furniture Display Room

Date: 12 24 1940
Description: Lowell Frautschi showing a couple a dining room table in the furniture display room at Frautschi's Incorporated, 219 King Street.
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Furniture Display Room

Date: 12 24 1940
Description: Lowell Frautschi displaying fabric samples to a couple sitting on living room furniture at Frautschi's, Incorporated, 219 King Street.
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Carol Cochems Seated at Desk-Chair

Date: 10 08 1946
Description: Pinafore-clad Carol Cochems, holding a pencil, with ringlets and a bow in her hair, reads in deep concentration at a desk-chair invented by H.M. Wood.
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CA-VEL Fabrics Window Display

Date: 06 20 1949
Description: CA-VEL fabrics window display at Leath's furniture store, 117 State Street, showing a living room scene with panels of CA-VEL deep pile mohair upholstery f...
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Modern Furniture Shop Upholsterer

Date: 02 08 1945
Description: An upholsterer at Modern Furniture Shop, 2111-19 Atwood Avenue, restores an antique chaise longue. W.E. Schmidt is the owner of the shop.
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Shell Filling Station

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: The Shell filling station, 341 State Street, as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time judged the second most bea...

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