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Fireworks Stand

Date: 07 1927
Description: Three boys purchase fireworks from the proprietor of a National Fireworks tent near Ogden Avenue. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Ag...
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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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Capital Buick Co. Parts Department

Date: 11 07 1929
Description: Interior of the Capital Buick Co. parts department, at 750 E. Washington Avenue. A customer is standing at a counter talking to a salesman.
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Madison Roofing Company Booth

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: A man standing in the Madison Roofing Company booth at the Dane County Fair displaying various samples of roofing materials.
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Silent Glow Oil Burner Booth

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Sales personnel pose in the Silent Glow oil burner booth with an oil burning kitchen stove, furnaces, and portable styles of oil burners at the Dane Count...
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Pyrofax Gas Appliances Booth

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: Two salesmen posing in the Pyrofax gas appliance booth at the Dane County Fair.
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Display Window of Hankscraft Egg Cooker

Date: 01 18 1929
Description: A woman demonstrates how to use a Hankscraft egg cooker in a mock Easter display window with Easter bunnies and Easter eggs.
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Egg Cooker for Sale

Date: 12 08 1928
Description: A salesman is showing a Hankscraft egg cooker to a customer at Harloff-Loprich Electric Company, 506 State Street.
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Man Demonstrating Hankscraft Egg Cooker

Date: 12 08 1928
Description: Man demonstrating Hankscraft egg cooker to a female customer in Harloff-Loprich Electric Company, 506 State Street.
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A & P Store Interior

Date: 10 17 1928
Description: A & P store interior, 809 University Avenue. A person is standing behind the counter.
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Electric Refrigeration Sales Company

Date: 06 11 1928
Description: Electric Refrigeration Sales Company with sales force, and two trucks with signs that read: "Frigidaire, Nokol, Hardinge, Aetna oil burners." The company i...
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Group Portrait of Volleyball Team

Date: 02 22 1928
Description: Gillespie Motor Sales men's volleyball team, with three men standing and three men kneeling.
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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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College Shop

Date: 06 01 1927
Description: Slightly elevated view of the interior of the College Shop. Two male clerks are behind the counter of the shop at 720 State Street.
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International Harvester Dealership

Date: 04 1929
Description: Elevated view of a customer at the sales counter of O.T. Kercheval's International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters and a calender are on the wall...
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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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W.E. Tomlinson and Customer at IH Dealership

Date: 06 10 1924
Description: W.E. Tomlinson, an International Harvester dealer, looks at a tractor binder with a customer.
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Cream Separator Oil

Date: 04 26 1927
Description: A man, possibly an International Harvester salesman, presents a can of cream separator oil to a customer. The setting is likely an International Harvester ...
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Harvester-Thresher Delivery

Date: 05 17 1927
Description: Mr. Dennison (left), manager of the Lucas Hardware Company, an International Harvester dealership, stands with another man in front of six assembled harves...
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Delta Implement Company Employees

Date: 1929
Description: Employees of the Delta Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership, lined up outdoors for a group portrait.

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