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Christmas Shopping

Date: 12 06 1947
Description: Natalie Schwartz, 137 Talmadge Street, admiring a Christmas tree outdoors.
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100,000 Red Carpet Series Scout Advertisement

Date: 1964
Description: Front cover of an advertising booklet for the 100,000 Red Carpet Series Scout. The color photograph features a man and woman loading a paper bag into the v...
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Oldsmobile in Showroom with Salesman and Customers

Date: 01 13 1950
Description: A new Oldsmobile car on display, probably in the showroom of Pyramid Motor Company Incorporated, 434 West Gilman Street, with a salesman and possible custo...
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Giftland at Night

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Description: Night view of gift shops, restaurants, and other attractions in a two-story shopping plaza. Several cars are parked along the curb beneath a streetlight in...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies

Date: 07 07 1953
Description: The Gray Ladies (volunteers) of the Red Cross do shopping as part of their hospital duties. Mrs. Tracy W. (Anne) Allen is shown in her car, returning from ...
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Looking West on Main Street

Date: 1922
Description: View down Main Street looking west. On these blocks there is a restaurant, rug store, post office, and Farmers State Bank. Automobiles are parked on both s...
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Street Scene

Date: 1929
Description: View down retail street. Cars are parked along the curbs. The stores include: Victrola's dealer, a cafe, a recreation parlor, a restaurant, a clothing stor...
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Main Street

Date: 1927
Description: View down Main Street lined with shops. Cars are sporadically parked along the curbs. There is a hotel, the Fritzstoldt tailor, soda fountain and drug stor...
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Main Street

Date: 1925
Description: Rows of cars are parked at shops on Main Street. The shop signs (from left to right) are: Doctor R.H. Merrifield Dentist, Clem Meyer — Dry Goods and Grocer...
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Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View down middle of street with many shops. Cars are parked at an angle along both sides of the street. A man rides a bicycle across the intersection. The ...
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Brodhead Street

Date: 1926
Description: A street in the business section of Brodhead. Cars are parked along the curb near storefronts. In the foreground in the middle of the intersection is a str...
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Business District

Date: 1912
Description: A main street intersection with many stores and shops. The stores include the Bank of Brodhead and A.J. Wagner's drugstore. Three boys stand at the corner....
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Selling Peaches at the Shed

Date: 09 1923
Description: Men looking through baskets of peaches in an open shed, where fruit was sold by the bushel. Others stand nearby. Original caption reads: "Selling peaches a...
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UFW Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: A picketer pushing the wheelchair of another supporter of the United Farmworkers — AFL-CIO grape boycott. They are possibly picketing in front of a superma...
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Milwaukee Picketers Supporting Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: A group of picketers supporting the nationwide United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott in front of Kroger Supermarket. Picketers are carrying signs that s...
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Grape Boycott Picket

Date: 1968
Description: Ernesto Chacon, a grape boycott organizer from Milwaukee, is wearing a jacket, sunglasses and a necklace around his neck. He is holding a United Farmworker...
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Grape Boycott Picketing

Date: 1968
Description: On the left, Ernesto Chacon, is in sunglasses and holding a sign that says, "Don't Buy Grapes," picketing for the United Farmworkers/AFL-CIO grape boycott....
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Milwaukee Grape Boycott Picketers

Date: 1969
Description: Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc...
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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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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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