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Furniture Display Room

Date: 12 24 1940
Description: Lowell Frautschi displaying fabric samples to a couple sitting on living room furniture at Frautschi's, Incorporated, 219 King Street.
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Kessenich's Silk Department

Date: 07 18 1927
Description: Elevated view of Kessenich's Silk Department, 201 State Street. Two women are standing on either side of a counter in the right foreground.
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Kessenich's Linen Department

Date: 03 28 1927
Description: Kessenich's linen department. A clock is on the wall above the entrance, and a water fountain is on the wall on the left..
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Manchester's Store Interior

Date: 03 12 1947
Description: Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer.
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Men Stacking Twine Fiber

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: Three men use a lift to stack bales of bound fiber in a storage area, possibly at the McCormick Works twine mill. The company used sisal and hemp fiber to ...
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Fabric Store Interior

Date: 1940
Description: An interior view of a store with bolts and remnants of fabric for sale.
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Storing Sisal Fiber

Date: 07 28 1910
Description: Men use a pulley to raise bales of sisal from the ground of a warehouse to the top of a pile of stacked bales. Others use dollies to wheel in additional ba...

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