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Shopping for Christmas

Date: 12 08 1961
Description: A woman is holding a doll while standing in front of a display of dolls and stuffed animals.
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Shoppers Hunt for Post-Christmas Sale Bargains

Date: 12 26 1963
Description: Madison shoppers fill stores looking for post-Christmas sale bargains.
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Shoppers Hunt for Post-Christmas Sale Bargains

Date: 12 26 1963
Description: Shoppers fill stores looking for post-Christmas sale bargains and returning or exchanging unwanted gifts.
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Festival de France on Madison's Capitol Square

Date: 09 29 1964
Description: Mary Rowe, age 15, buying a corsage at Festival de France on the Capitol Square in Madison.
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Behnke's Grocery

Date: 1960
Description: William Behnke selling out after 60 years as the neighborhood grocer at North Avenue and 29th Street. There are four people behind the counter, and custome...
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Woman Buying Chickens at Madison Packing Company

Date: 1926
Description: View towards a woman standing at the meat counter of the Madison Packing Company. She is buying chickens from a man standing behind the counter which has a...
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Interior of Del Wood's Country Store

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Description: Elevated interior view of Del Wood's Country Store. Items are on display on open shelves, and on shelves set up on barrels. Two people are standing in the ...
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Shoppers and Strollers

Date: 06 2014
Description: Crowd of men and women walking on the sidewalk along a row of booths selling farm produce.
Poster

This Town Is Your Home

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoon panels. In the first, silhouetted figures are working in the yard in front of a large house with a public school and a factory with...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Record shop employee Charles Lunde (right) explaining the merits of Charlie Ventura's septet to customer Richard Mallum, who is admiring the cover of the v...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer John Salzer (left) looking over an album with George Dasson. Other 33rpm vinyl records are displayed on the wall, and framed photographs of musica...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer Nancy Thomsen purchasing a vinyl record. Other 33rpm records are displayed along the back wall and counter top, and 45s are sitting inside a glass...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Customers Judy Schwandner and May Nicolaus enjoy hearing a record playing on a turntable in the store's listening booth.
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer Anne Davis playing a vinyl record in a listening booth before making a decision to purchase it.
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On Christmas Day

Date: 1900
Description: A Christmas greeting card with an illustration of a woman at a market stall with wreaths and greenery. Inside the stall is the vendor. The colors are chrom...
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Larry Borenstein Selling Women's Shoes

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, answering a woman's questions at the Borenstein Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. She is sitting on a couc...
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Larry Borenstein Selling Women's Shoes

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, assisting a customer at Borenstein's Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. A young man, perhaps a sales assist...
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Teenagers Wield Power

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Margee Palldett, of 310 Ottawa Trail and a senior at West High School, shopping for her own clothes.
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Arthur Dier smiles approval as his fiancee, Evelyn Schaefer, asks his opinion of a bright flowery Easter hat at a Madison store. Ms. Schaefer, in the foreg...

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