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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background. |
| Date: | 03 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Manchester's Inc., Vogue "Spring Fabrics Fashion Show" window display featuring a Vogue Magazine cover, a mannequin, and fabrics. |
| Date: | 11 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Singer Sewing Machine Company store, 325 State Street, and Sherwin Williams Paint and Wallpaper Store, 327-329 State Street, with a billboard on top of the... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around table, and a man standing with tool on the right. Behind the group is a Greek Revival house that has a sewing machine on the porch. T... |
| Date: | 09 23 1947 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, display window promoting "National Notion Week" and displaying items (notions) used for sewing. |
| Date: | 10 01 1947 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, show window displaying the Vogue "1947 look" in women's clothing. Includes a mannequin dressed in the 1947 lon... |
| Date: | 05 25 1950 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, fabric display with Vogue patterns, one mannequin, and draped fabrics, "Tipperary, a completely washable soap'n ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, sewing display window including three female mannequins, fabric, dress patterns, and two signs stating "You Save... |
| Date: | 03 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Frostman's woolens window display with two mannequins wearing suits in Manchester's, Inc., corner window #4, taken from Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 13 1953 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, show window displaying Forstmann woolen fabric yard goods. |
| Date: | 12 14 1956 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Incorporated, 2 East Mifflin Street, show window display of Singer Sewing Machines, fabrics, mannequin, and Christmas wreath. |
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| Description: | The Ludington Building, built in 1881 on the southeast corner of North Plankinton Avenue and West Wells Street, featuring the Singer Sewing Machine store. |
| Date: | 01 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Florence Brewer, seated, from England, learning sewing from Helen John, with Richard W. Bardwell, director of Madison Vocational and Adult Education School... |
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| Description: | A Woman for a peaceful Christmas sheet of patterns for felt butterfly, rabbit, cat, elephant, camel, and dog ornaments. Logo on left says: "No more shoppin... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A well-dressed man sits in a chair in a Schwaller Music Store on Pine Street. Various pianos are on display. There are signs for Sohmer Pianos and New Home... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Miss Graumann, far left, poses with four dressmakers in front of her shop. A sign on the right side of the door states "Dressmaking, Miss Annie Graumann".... |
| Date: | 11 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Fabric and pattern department of the new Sears store, located at 1101 East Washington Avenue. |
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| Description: | A logo for Singer Sewing Machine Company. Over the backdrop of a globe and clouds is written "The Sign of Singer Service Throughout the World." In the cent... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Parade float on which ten women are standing, some posing with knitting needles or behind a sewing machine. Two men and one woman are standing on the groun... |
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