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| Date: | 1960 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| 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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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 2014 |
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| Description: | Crowd of men and women walking on the sidewalk along a row of booths selling farm produce. |
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| Description: | Altgeld Gardens Commercial Center was designed by George Fred and William Keck as Project #317 in 1946. This shopping center was associated with Altgeld Ga... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel showing a busy town, with several shops labeled: "Toys, Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes, Clothes, Prosperity Shop, and Drug Store."... |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customers Judy Schwandner and May Nicolaus enjoy hearing a record playing on a turntable in the store's listening booth. |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customer Anne Davis playing a vinyl record in a listening booth before making a decision to purchase it. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 03 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 03 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 12 1957 |
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| Description: | Margee Palldett, of 310 Ottawa Trail and a senior at West High School, shopping for her own clothes. |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | School days mean new shoes for Barbara Notstad, who is being fitted at Van's Shoe Store in Cambridge by William Van Valkenberg. Her mother is sitting besid... |
| Date: | 11 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Christmas shoppers crowd the Capitol Square on the day after Thanksgiving Day. Women shoppers are seen at the corner of State Street, Carroll Street and W.... |
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