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Hommels Cooking School

Date: 11 24 1933
Description: View from center aisle of Hommel's Cooking School set up on the Parkway Theater stage, 6-10 W. Mifflin Street. Displayed is a layout of the cooking demonst...
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Promotional China Display

Date: 10 28 1935
Description: Promotional display of Salem china, Tricorne pattern, in the lobby of the Eastwood Theatre, 2090 Atwood Avenue. The sign reads: "China Night Every Tuesday ...
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Theater Ushers

Date: 02 01 1931
Description: Orpheum and Capitol theatre ushers listening to a talk about fire prevention as they are standing beneath a marquee that advertises the epic "Cimarron."
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Customer at Parts Desk of International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of a customer at the service counter of an International Harvester dealership. A bin of oil filters, McCormick-Deering hammer mills,...
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McConley's Food Market Interior

Date: 09 11 1945
Description: McConley's Food Market, interior, 1254 East Washington Avenue, showing counter with scale, shopper carts, shelves of canned goods, refrigerator in rear, Bo...
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Eastwood Theatre Booth

Date: 09 25 1938
Description: Eastwood Theatre booth at the East Side Business Men's Association fall festival. "Wednesday, Club Nite $300.00, $25.00 guaranteed."
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Poster of Harold Lloyd in "The Milky Way"

Date: 03 12 1936
Description: Poster of Harold Lloyd in "The Milky Way," and a bale of hay, on display in the lobby of the Parkway Theater, 6-10 West Mifflin Street.
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Golf Stunt

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Men posing during a golf stunt, as they try to hit a golf ball off a man's nose while he is lying on his back on the floor in the lobby of the Orpheum Thea...
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Orpheum Theatre Ushers

Date: 04 24 1932
Description: Orpheum and Capitol ushers relaxing at the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, where "Tarzan the Ape Man" is showing, at a kickoff for the Milk Bottle Fund ...
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American Legion

Date: 01 08 1931
Description: View towards a man dressed as a woman, with his back turned, standing in front of a group of American Legion men posing in a room at the G.A.R. Hall. The m...
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"Monte Carlo"

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Display advertising "Monte Carlo" movie featuring roulette wheel in Capitol lobby? A man is standing behind a table on the right.
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Children at the Orpheum Theatre

Date: 08 15 1930
Description: A crowd of children, some in costume, gather at the Orpheum Theatre entrance behind a caricature labeled "Jack Holt" during a promotion for the film, "Swin...
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Children at Orpheum Theater

Date: 08 15 1930
Description: Children dressed as circus performers at the Orpheum Theatre, inside the lobby which is advertising "Swing High."
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Schendel's Vaudeville Show, Circus, and Menagerie

Date: 08 23 1901
Description: The stage and surrounding posters of Professor Oscar John Schendel's "All Star Vaudeville, Big Three-Ringed Circus, and Mammoth Menagerie."
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Farmall Cub on Display at Union Station

Date: 07 08 1947
Description: Farmall Cub tractor on display at Union Station. Signs advertise: "The New! Farmall Cub; Designed to Mechanize America's Small, Family-Size Farms," and inc...
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Farmall Cub on Display at Branch Meeting

Date: 1947
Description: McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor on display at a Great Falls, Montana branch meeting. A sign on the tractor advertises the price of the tractor and va...
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Model Farm Display

Date: 12 28 1927
Description: A miniaturized model of a farm set against a backdrop of advertising posters for International Harvester equipment. The model was on display at the Iowa St...
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Movie Theater Audience

Date: 12 11 1928
Description: Rear view of a large audience gathered in a darkened theater to watch a motion picture, most likely an International Harvester advertising film. The image ...
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Milwaukee Auditorium

Date: 1910
Description: Advertisement for Auditorium with capacity information (total 15,700), purposes (Exhibitions, Conventions, Meetings, Lectures, Concerts, Dances, Circus, et...
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Milwaukee Auditorium

Date: 1910
Description: Main hall with description of location. Hall was 225 feet long, 100 feet wide and 65 feet high. Also gives basement size under main hall (36,000 square f...

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