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TV Dealership Rarick's Hardware

Date: 12 06 1956
Description: View across street toward Rarick's Hardware, a color television dealer. A group of people are posing on the sidewalk in front of the show windows. A truck ...
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International D-15 Truck Delivering Goods to Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store

Date: 06 21 1938
Description: Salesman delivering farm and garden goods to the Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware store, 21 South Pinckney Street on the Madison Capitol Square, with an Inter...
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Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store

Date: 02 25 1945
Description: Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store, 401 West Gilman Street, at the corner of State Street.
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Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store

Date: 05 05 1934
Description: Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Co. hardware store, located at 17 South Pinckney Street. There is a lighted "TOYS" sign above the second floor display window. The vie...
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Electrical Supply Company

Date: 04 27 1928
Description: Front view of the Electrical Supply Company, located at 202 East Washington Avenue. There is a sign on the outside for "Thor washing and ironing machines."
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Zimmerman Hardware Store

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: View across street towards the Herman Zimmerman Hardware Store at 2129 Atwood Avenue. Address on image reads: "396 Atwood Ave."
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Corner of W. Main and S. Carroll Streets

Date: 1860
Description: View across Capitol Park lawn towards the corner of West Main and South Carroll Streets with businesses and horse-drawn wagons. The building at the corner ...
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Loading Truck at Landall Brothers Dealership

Date: 03 09 1933
Description: Men loading a cream separator and gas pumps into the back of an International Red Baby truck in front of the Landall Brothers hardware store and farm equip...
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Men Posing Outside Local Businesses

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Description: Seventeen men and boys are posing in front of the storefronts on a sidewalk on the north side of Main Street, between First and Second Streets, including O...
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Al. Ringling Theater

Date: 1950
Description: View across street of the Al. Ringling Theater with a Studebaker pickup truck in the foreground. There is a hardware store on the right.
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Homemakers Hardware and Appliance Co. Window

Date: 06 15 1949
Description: Homemakers Hardware and Appliance Company, 123 West Mifflin Street, display window featuring Norge washing machines.
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Kimball and Lowell Hardware Store

Date: 1887
Description: The Kimball and Lowell Hardware Store located on the corner of Franklin and Milwaukee Streets.
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Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View down center of unpaved street. A sign on the building on the left corner reads: "The Upham & Russell Co. Hardware and Metals". A barber's pole is on t...
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Jacob Karlan Block

Date: 1955
Description: The Jacob Karlan block, built in 1893 on the north side of Monroe Street. The Karlan block was erected on the site of the old United States Hotel, adjoinin...
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Monroe Street Businesses

Date: 1958
Description: Exterior view of businesses along 1831-1841 Monroe Street, including: H & R Variety store, Schensky Hardware, Archer's Pharmacy and Main Western Auto.
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International Harvester Store Display

Date: 04 21 1927
Description: Two men pose outside of McCreary Hardware alongside a giant International Harvester cream separator display. The hardware store also served as an Internati...
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Phillip Gross Hardware Company

Date: 07 24 1915
Description: Elevated view of the storefront of the Philip Gross Hardware Company on the east side of N. Third Street, north of W. Wells Street. Grassler and Gezelschap...
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Harvester-Thresher Delivery

Date: 05 17 1927
Description: Mr. Dennison (left), manager of the Lucas Hardware Company, an International Harvester dealership, stands with another man in front of six assembled harves...
Manuscript

John Pritzlaff Hardware Co.

Date: 02 22 1899
Description: The facade of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Co., on the back cover of the Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu.
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street with overhead sign reading "Welcome Garden City" sign. Text on buildings reads: "E.J. Pyle Real Estate" and "F. Finnup. Hardware." Ci...

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