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Buying Paint

Date: 1950
Description: A couple waits at the checkout stand with a shopping cart and cans of Mautz paint and other supplies to purchase.
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Christmas Returns

Date: 12 26 1982
Description: A Target retail store is flooded with customers returning Christmas gifts.
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Farmers Hauling Goods in Columbus Wagon

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Description: Two farmers standing in the bed of a wooden Columbus wagon loaded with groceries and other goods. The original caption reads: "One of the reasons why Alaba...
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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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McConley's Food Market Interior

Date: 09 11 1945
Description: McConley's Food Market, interior, 1254 East Washington Avenue, showing counter with scale, shopper carts, shelves of canned goods, refrigerator in rear, Bo...
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Furniture Display Room

Date: 12 24 1940
Description: Lowell Frautschi showing a couple a dining room table in the furniture display room at Frautschi's Incorporated, 219 King Street.
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Man Selling Ties to Emerie Ann Lincoln

Date: 03 21 1935
Description: A man is selling neckties to blues singer Emerie Ann Lincoln, at Spoo & Stephan Store, 18 N. Carroll Street.
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Mautz Paint Department

Date: 01 17 1935
Description: Mautz paint department at Fred Boss Hardware Co., 2309 Winnebago 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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Rennebohm's Pharmacist

Date: 10 24 1944
Description: A Rennebohm Drug Store employee shows a bottle of Drene shampoo to a male customer while the pharmacist looks on.
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Manchester's Store Interior

Date: 03 12 1947
Description: Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer.
Print

August Kroll Letterhead

Date: 1888
Description: Letterhead of August Kroll of Leopolis, Wisconsin, dealer in hardware, stoves, and tinware, with an image of the interior of a store and customers being he...
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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...
Book or Pamphlet

United Refrigerator & Ice Machine Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1915
Description: Front cover featuring ten inset color illustrations of refrigerating machinery, refrigerators and store fixtures in use in the home and in shops.
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West High Problems of Democracy Class

Date: 11 18 1954
Description: West High School seniors, Geraldine Doran, right, and Gretchen Ihde look at sofas with Tom Rennels, a salesman at the Black Furniture Store, as part of an ...
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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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