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Patrons and Bartender at Chet's Tavern

Date: 1941
Description: Two patrons and bartender at Chet's tavern. The bartender is pulling bottles of Schlitz beer out of an International No. 4 De Luxe dry type beverage cooler...
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Turkeys in Cooler

Date: 12 07 1944
Description: Goeden Company, 635-637 University Avenue walk-in cooler, with many turkeys hanging on racks.
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Fast Freezer Room

Date: 03 06 1939
Description: Freezer room at 20th Century Market, 1860 East Washington Avenue, with Oscar Mayer's White Clover brand pure lard and other products on the floor and shelv...
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Oscar Mayer Salesmen

Date: 12 13 1931
Description: Group portrait of Oscar Mayer salesmen taken in front of sides of beef hanging in the cooler.
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International R-172 Refrigerated Truck

Date: 1953
Description: International R-172 ice cream truck with mechanically refrigerated body. The truck is backing up to a loading dock.
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Rennebohm Food Service Workers

Date: 1979
Description: Two Rennebohm Drug Store, Inc., employees make sandwiches. A large commercial refrigerator is visible in the back of the kitchen area where they are workin...
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Couple Shopping at Grocery Store Dairy Case

Date: 10 03 1947
Description: Elevated view of man and woman with a grocery cart shopping at the dairy case in a grocery store. Sign over case reads: "There's a Heap of Good Livin' Down...
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Beer Cooler at a Tavern

Date: 1936
Description: Wooden crates are piled around a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler used for cooling beer at Mr. Jay Winter's tavern.
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Pepsi-Cola Bottles Stored in Milk Cooler

Date: 11 16 1936
Description: A McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler used to store bottles of Pepsi-Cola at Springer Brothers.
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8-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 11 11 1936
Description: H.W. Griswold stands beside a McCormick-Deering 8-can milk cooler.
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McCormick-Deering 6 Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 28 1936
Description: A older man stands next to a McCormick-Deering milk cooler. Handwritten notes identify the photograph as being taken in Bowling Green, Missouri, and the m...
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McCormick-Deering Wet and Dry Compartment Milk Cooler

Date: 10 20 1936
Description: A woman wearing a striped smock puts apples from a tin into a 4-can combination wet and dry compartment milk cooler. Also seen in the cooler are items suc...
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McCormick-Deering 10-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 13 1936
Description: Mr. and Mrs. John Kalbrach stand in front of their McCormick-Deering 10-Can Milk Cooler. Mr. Kalbrach is wearing overalls and Mrs. Kalbrach is wearing a fl...
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McCormick-Deering 8-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 13 1936
Description: Milton Stump stands with his hands on his hips next to a McCormick-Deering 8-can Milk Cooler. Multiple upside-down milk canisters are on the wall behind Mr...
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McCormick-Deering 10 Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 09 1936
Description: Elevated view of H.C. Wuesthoof putting a milk canister into what a 10 can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler.
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McCormick-Deering 10 Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 09 1936
Description: H.C. Wuesthoof places a milk canister into a 10 can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler.
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McCormick-Deering 8-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 08 1936
Description: A man works near an 8-can milk cooler at the Columbia Baking Company.
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McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 09 23 1936
Description: Tony Gildig takes milk bottles from a crate and places them into a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler. Some of the writing on the cooler is readable but ...
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McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler

Date: 09 09 1936
Description: A woman wearing a dress places bottles into a "McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler "for cooling beer". The photograph was taken at Royce Cafe in Edmond, Oklahoma...
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McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 07 14 1936
Description: Two children, Charles and Lois, stand next to a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler. The children are the grandchildren of Paul Myers.

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