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Wisconsin Woman Picketing for Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: A woman wearing a paisley dress is carrying a United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO sign in front of a Kroger store that reads, "Honor Picket Line/ National Cou...
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Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: View down Main Street. A group of women are looking in store windows on the right.
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Jon P. Wilcox Crossing Picket Line

Date: 1969
Description: Jon P. Wilcox (far left), cucumber grower and state legislator, crossing the grape boycott picket line at a Kroger store. In 1969, Grape boycotts in Wiscon...
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Man and Woman in Drugstore

Date: 1960
Description: A man and woman stand behind the service counter at a drugstore.
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Bringing Food to the Table

Date: 08 13 1956
Description: Joan Atwood shopping for vegetables for a special recipe. Part of photo spread for WSJ Centennial Cookbook contest.
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Boscobel Meat Market

Date: 1905
Description: A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho...
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Planning a Wedding

Date: 04 02 1957
Description: Barbara Noel Wellman, right, looking at a wedding gown as a possibility for her June 29 marriage to Thomas Kivlin.
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Planning a Wedding

Date: 04 02 1957
Description: Jill Molinaro and Patrick Levenhagen shop for wedding rings.
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Kroger Supermarket Opening

Date: 11 18 1957
Description: Kroger's Midvale Plaza at 525 South Midvale Boulevard has added features to save time for busy shoppers. There is a clothing counter, shown here, and also ...
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Jordan's Super Market

Date: 01 02 1958
Description: A woman pushes a child in a shopping cart while at Jordan's Super Market.
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Red Owl Supermarket

Date: 01 14 1958
Description: Mrs. Donald Tracy and her three sons, Douglas, Greg and Michael, use a shopping cart at the opening of the new Red Owl supermarket at 3535 East Washington ...
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Woman in Store Aisle Examining Bread

Date: 1970
Description: Woman standing in a store aisle examining a loaf of Levy and Sons Bakery rye bread. She is wearing a yellow shirt, colorful headband, and a beehive or bouf...
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Sue Carolyn Renk

Date: 06 18 1958
Description: Sue Carolyn Renk examines a piece of crystal glassware as her mother, Mrs. Wilbur Renk looks on. She is preparing for her wedding and her graduation.
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Street Traders at Apia

Date: 02 25 1945
Description: Indigenous traders on the sidewalk in front of the Burns Philip Ltd. Store display window at Apia, British Samoa (today the independent country of Samoa). ...
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Rose Sussman

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Rose Sussman, a former ballet dancer and teacher, shopping for a dress in a Madison store. The former Rose Goloff was born in the southern Ukraine section ...
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Ben Franklin Store Opens on Monona Drive

Date: 05 21 1959
Description: Robert Retzlaff (left), manager of the newly opened Ben Franklin variety store at 4204 Monona Drive, posing in the foreground on his store's first day of b...
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Aerial View of Westgate Shopping Center

Date: 1959
Description: Aerial view of the Westgate Shopping Center under construction.
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C and P Plaza

Date: 11 19 1959
Description: Carl Payne (in the middle of the group at right) greets visitors at the C and P Plaza, his new store, on its opening day.
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Municipal Market

Date: 1918
Description: Farm produce for sale from farm trucks at the Municipal Market on the Capitol Square. The Municipal market was established by a committee of women in July,...
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Cap Pistol Legalization

Date: 07 03 1953
Description: After Governor Kohler signed legislation legalizing the sale of caps and cap pistols, many youth prepared to celebrate the Independence Day holiday with th...

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