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| Date: | 02 14 1985 |
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| Description: | A display of fruit and vegetables in the East Side Foods Sentry store. |
| Date: | 01 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham. |
| Date: | 05 19 1989 |
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| Description: | Two young boys in a grocery store figuring out prices of food with a calculator. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market. |
| Date: | 07 1969 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire hands his cards to constituents outside a Milwaukee grocery store. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Farmer's Market during the late 1930s. A customer carries produce purchased at the market. |
| Date: | 08 21 1924 |
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| Description: | The H.L Roehrborn Grocery Store, located at N. 41st and W. Burleigh Street. The interior of the grocery store contains canned goods and bins of food on dis... |
| Date: | 08 20 1924 |
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| Description: | Displays of merchandise inside of a grocery store. |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | A fish shop made of several small, interconnected buildings. Signs for fresh or smoked fish are on several parts of the shop. In the background is a railr... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Walter Wolf Peltz in his grocery store. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man standing at the back of an International Metro truck with a basket of bread. The truck includes the text: "Jaeger's / Butter-Nut is fresh bread". "Ha... |
| Date: | 10 20 1913 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of John Hoffmann, Milwaukee grocer. |
| Date: | 12 14 1936 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Walter Elkhart Piefer, Milwaukee grocer. |
| Date: | 05 07 1964 |
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| Description: | The corner grocery is a pleasant place for the pause that refreshes. Thaddeus Moore, 9, of 3271 N. 14th Street, had a cone. Anthony McMillon, 7, of 3287-A ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A campaign picture of Democrat Henry Reuss wearing a suit, addressing constituents working at a grocery store. This was likely taken in 1952 while Reuss wa... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A picketer pushing the wheelchair of another supporter of the United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO grape boycott. They are possibly picketing in front of a superma... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | William Behnke selling out after 60 years as the neighborhood grocer at North Avenue and 29th Street. There are four people behind the counter, and custome... |
| Date: | 09 24 1908 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "River Scene and S.S. Christopher Columbus, Milwaukee, Wis." The only whaleback ship ever built for passenger service is moored at the... |
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