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| Date: | 11 17 1932 |
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| Description: | Male and female turkeys awaiting their fate in cages in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre. A poster advertises "Next Tuesday is Poultry Night Here! 8 turkey... |
| Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, photographed in front of the store. The majority of the employees are waitresses. War bond posters ... |
| Date: | 09 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster... |
| Date: | 08 23 1940 |
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| Description: | George Stein, photographer, on the right, and Frank Marx, window decorator, on the left in Manchesters Department Store. They are looking at a 10' tall pos... |
| Date: | 05 27 1939 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin in a police uniform, standing in front of a motorcycle and a life-sized poster of four movie stars on a tandem bicycle. This event occurred... |
| Date: | 03 10 1939 |
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| Description: | Cyril Ballam and Governor Julius P. Heil looking at a National Wildlife Restoration Week poster. |
| Date: | 03 26 1938 |
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| Description: | Acacia fraternity "Bowery" party, with couples in costume. There are many commercial posters and advertising on the wall in the background. |
| Date: | 02 24 1937 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Benny Meroff and his NBC Orchestra and Revue, with eight drawings, and photographs of performers. |
| Date: | 03 12 1936 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 05 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Man standing beside advertising signs for Wallace Beery in "The Secret Six — The answer to gang rule in America." Taken in front of the Strand Theatre. |
| Date: | 04 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Shell service station, with a male attendant standing in front. There are posters advertising the "Trader Horn" movie on the ground in front of the pumps. |
| Date: | 04 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Walgreen's window, 30-32 E. Mifflin Street, advertising the movie "Trader Horn," with a poster and copies of the book on display. |
| Date: | 04 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street, with a "Trader Horn" movie poster with another poster for "Great Whiskers — the Smith Brothers — George Bernard Shaw ... |
| Date: | 03 21 1931 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Acacia fraternity "Nut House" party. Students are wearing costumes, and the room is decorated with posters. |
| Date: | 01 31 1931 |
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| Description: | Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai... |
| Date: | 10 10 1930 |
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| Description: | Man dressed as an African standing beside poster advertising the movie, "Africa Speaks," in front of the Capitol Theatre, 209 State Street. |
| Date: | 08 17 1930 |
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| Description: | Moseley's Bookstore display window advertising the book and the movie "All Quiet On The Western Front." The movie was being shown at the RKO Capitol Theatr... |
| Date: | 08 15 1930 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre entrance advertising "Joe Cook Rain or Shine." The doorman is standing at the entrance with a child. 209 State Street. |
| Date: | 07 31 1930 |
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| Description: | Orpheum advertisement for "The Sap from Syracuse", and a Capitol Theatre advertisement for "Let Us Be Gay" in Collyer's Pharmacy window in the Mayer Buildi... |
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