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Driving Hogs Through Town

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Description: Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t...
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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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Research Products Display Window

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: Research Products Company display window at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store, featuring Filter-Fry frying pan cover and E Z Kleen air filters. 17 South ...
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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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Tate & Kleinpell Hardware

Date: 1904
Description: View of the interior of Tate & Kleinpell Hardware, with stoves, churns, seeds and other items displayed for sale.
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Preview Display of Post-War Appliances

Date: 05 23 1945
Description: Window display at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig, 17 South Pinckney Street, with post-war appliances including products by Vollrath, Filter Queen, West Bend, General...
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Preview Display of Post-War Products

Date: 05 23 1945
Description: Display in left window of future post-war products including appliances manufactured by Toastmaster, All America, General Electric, Proctor, Sunbeam, Steam...
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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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Wisco Hardware "Trainload" Window

Date: 02 07 1944
Description: Display window at Wisco Hardware Store, 15 South Brearly Street, featuring "Trainload Buying Power."
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Wisco Washing Machine

Date: 06 02 1937
Description: Wringer washing machine, in the Wisco Hardware Company.
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Niglis Implement Store

Date: 07 23 1935
Description: Four customers visit the Niglis Implement Store, an International Harvester dealership at 724 Williamson Street, with three employees behind the counter.
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Niglis Implement Store

Date: 07 23 1935
Description: Interior of Niglis Implement Store, an International Harvester dealership located at 724 Williamson Street, with four customers and three employees standin...
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Mautz Paint Department

Date: 01 17 1935
Description: Mautz paint department at Fred Boss Hardware Co., 2309 Winnebago 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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Aluminum Toy Dishes Window Display

Date: 11 15 1926
Description: Window display of the Schmidt Hardware Company showing Mirro Aluminum toy sets: dishes and silverware.
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Aluminum Toy Dishes Window Display

Date: 11 15 1926
Description: Window display of Schmidt Hardware Comany showing Mirro Aluminum toy sets: dishes, silverware.
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Interior of Continental Store, 6 North Street

Date: 09 11 1946
Description: Continental Store grand opening sale, 6 North Street. Interior view showing counters and merchandise, washing machines, bicycles, auto parts and cash regis...
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Continental Store

Date: 09 11 1946
Description: Continental Store grand opening sale, 6 North Street. Interior view showing counters and merchandise, washing machines, bicycles, auto parts and cash regis...
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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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