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Barman — Pete

Date: 1932
Description: Pete bartending at Club Simplon.
Drawing

Barman — Bill

Date: 1932
Description: Bill bartending at Jack and Charlie's.
Photograph

Flying Tea Party

Date: 
Description: A tea party on an airplane, a publicity stunt conceived by Harry Bruno to promote his Cleveland-area airline, Aeromarine Airlines. By taking local reporter...
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Museum Patrons View the Gaugin Exhibit

Date: 03 17 1959
Description: Spectators view paintings by Paul Gaugin at the opening of an art exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Photograph

Miss Mary Barnes and the Hat

Date: 01 09 1963
Description: Mary Barnes, wearing a mink stole and pearls, modeling her outrageous hat. It is wired to light 10 street lights that are arranged around the brim.
Photograph

Coed Model at Train Station

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Manchester's Department Store coed model, wearing a fur jacket, hat and purse, posing on the steps of a passenger train, with two pieces of luggage on the ...
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Model at Train Station

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: Manchesters Department Store model, wearing fur jacket hat and purse, posing with the conductor who is holding her luggage on the steps of a passenger trai...
Photograph

Kessenich's Clothing Model

Date: 08 10 1938
Description: Model standing on step stool wearing hat and gloves, with fur collar coat, dress shoes, and carrying a purse. Part of the fashion series from Kessenich's R...
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Kessenich's Clothing Model

Date: 08 10 1938
Description: Model wearing hat, dress with jacket trimmed in fur, and carrying a purse, is standing on blocks in front of the dressing rooms at Kessenich's Dry Goods st...
Photograph

McCoy's Ice Cream Shop

Date: 02 22 1938
Description: Two clerks and a customer in McCoy's Ice Cream Shop, 507 State Street, with Oscar Mayer Coolerator food display case.
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Two Women Modeling Fur Coats

Date: 08 12 1937
Description: Two women modeling fur coats for Simpson's women's clothing store, 23 N. Pinckney Street. Alternate view.
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Woman Modeling Fur Coat

Date: 08 12 1937
Description: Woman modeling full-length fur coat at Simpson's women's clothing store, 23 N. Pinckney Street.
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Women's Club Presidents

Date: 10 09 1934
Description: Portrait of three women's club presidents. Mrs. Hazel Jenks, 2015 Jefferson Street, President of the Madison Woman's club; Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, Gener...
Photograph

Women with Governor Schemedeman

Date: 02 23 1933
Description: Governor Albert G. Schemedeman with Frieda Mooney, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War Auxiliary, and Nina Westbury, Nati...
Photograph

Collecting Money for Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 09 1932
Description: Dorothy Hoffman, member of Phi Sigma Sigma sorority, is shown dropping money into milk bottle held by Harley Droster, an usher at the Orpheum Theatre. Mone...
Photograph

Cecily Weaver Teaching Bridge Class

Date: 11 15 1932
Description: Cecily Weaver teaching a bridge class to large group of well-dressed women at the Loraine Hotel.
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Fanchon & Marco Girls Wearing Hats

Date: 09 16 1932
Description: Close-up of eight women performers from a Fanshon & Marco dance revue wearing new fall hats and fur capes at Heller's, 205 State Street.
Photograph

Gretchen Smoot and Another Woman

Date: 11 27 1931
Description: Gretchen Smoot, U.W. Co-ed and cousin of Utah Senator Reed Smoot, and another woman, both wearing fur coats, standing in front of a house.
Photograph

Egg Cooker for Sale

Date: 12 08 1928
Description: A salesman is showing a Hankscraft egg cooker to a customer at Harloff-Loprich Electric Company, 506 State Street.
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Man Demonstrating Hankscraft Egg Cooker

Date: 12 08 1928
Description: Man demonstrating Hankscraft egg cooker to a female customer in Harloff-Loprich Electric Company, 506 State Street.

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