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Christian Frautschi Furniture Store

Date: 1895
Description: Members of the Frautschi family pose at the Christian Frautschi Furniture Store. From left to right are Alice, Irving, Christian and Arthur Frautschi.
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Fred Schenk Grocery Store

Date: 1907
Description: Interior of the Fred Schenk grocery store on the corner of Atwood Avenue and Winnebago Street. Included in the photograph are Art Ramsey, Matilda Schenk, a...
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Family Examining a New W-30 Tractor

Date: 02 07 1935
Description: Salesman showing a new McCormick-Deering W-30 tractor to a small group of men, women, and children in the showroom of an International Harvester dealership...
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International Truck Hauling Farmall Regular Tractor

Date: 05 02 1928
Description: Otto, Herbert, Eugene, Wilbur and Kenneth Sloneker standing in front of an International truck loaded with a Farmall Regular tractor. The brothers were par...
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Dealer Shows Farmall F-12 Tractor to "Customer"

Date: 1938
Description: Dealer P.W. Stonebrig(?) and his son posing as a dealer explaining a Farmall F-12 tractor to a customer. A Farmall F-20 tractor and several advertising pos...
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Family in Toy Store

Date: 10 23 1924
Description: Boy sitting in a "McFarlan" toy car as two men and a woman are looking on. The group appears to be in a toy store or toy department, with other toy cars, a...
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Family Posed in Street near House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is seated in chairs in the middle of a street in front of a frame house with shuttered windows. Adjoining this house is what may be a commercial s...
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Family by Onon Bjorn Dahle Store

Date: 1872
Description: A family standing on the porch of the Onon Bjorn Dahle Store. The store has a second floor balcony across the front, and steps and a fence on the right sid...
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Grocery Store Shoppers

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: A father and two children at the Kroger grocery store check out counter purchase Dean's milk, Red Dot potato chips, Kroger pancake mix, macaroni, and bread...
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Interior of Harry's Food Shop

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Interior of Harry's Food Shop, 1122 Chandler Street, owned by Harry and Loretta Blodau, with customer Mary Huth with her children. Patricia Huth is sitting...
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S.E. Burns

Date: 1922
Description: Mr. S.E. Burns, an International Harvester dealer, poses for a portrait with his son and son-in-law on either side of him.
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Austin Thorson and Family

Date: 01 03 1949
Description: Austin Thorson, winner of a $100 prize in a Lipton Tea Co. jingle contest, also won $1,200 worth of groceries from the Kroger Co. by writing the address of...
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Brandels on Main Street

Date: 1922
Description: Members of the Brandel family (probably), two men and one woman, pose on Main Street.
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3688 Tractor with Salesman and Customer Family

Date: 1981
Description: Color photograph of a salesman meeting with a customer's family next to an International Harvester 3688 tractor at a dealership. The photo appears to be st...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 06 27 1950
Description: Michael Welch is being sponsored by his dad's filling station, Welch's Service Station, 2030 University Avenue, and Jordan Brothers' grocery, 1863 Monroe S...
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Sidell Sisters

Date: 1928
Description: Billie is dressed as a man, and Pierre is lying on a table with Billie leaning over her.
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Mother and Child at Woodman's Grocery Store

Date: 2008
Description: A child is sitting in a shopping cart while her mother is looking over frozen goods at a grocery store.
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Sigrid's Bavarian Trail — Exterior

Date: 03 12 1999
Description: "We dine at Sigrid's Bavarian Trail, a restaurant serving German food in Waupun, WI." From left to right; John Bodden, Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Rudy Heinecke...
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Beck Motor Sales

Date: 02 1978
Description: "Beck Motor Sales. This fine 1917 Dodge Roadster is on display in the showroom. Reuben Beck (with phone) and his brother, Gerald, (center) are the propriet...
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Car Slogan Contest Winners

Date: 02 01 1957
Description: Five adults and three children posing in front of a prize new 1957 Chevorlet. On the left is Warner Young, chairman of the Madison Automobile Dealers Assoc...

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