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Filter: Creator Name of McVicar, Angus B., 1903-1964
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| Date: | 08 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Sweet's Food Shop, located at 354 West Main Street. |
| Date: | 06 18 1952 |
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| Description: | A hosiery window display with mannequins at Hills Store, 202 State Street. A sign in the window reads: "Fruit-of-the-Loom Nationally Famous Nylons, 99 cent... |
| Date: | 09 17 1931 |
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| Description: | View down East Wilson Street from the corner of King Street. The Union Transfer Building is on the right hand side at 155-303 East Wilson Street, Rubin's F... |
| Date: | 07 02 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the nearly completed Capitol Theatre. Construction scaffolding is in the background. |
| Date: | 04 19 1932 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Hub clothing store, located at 22-24 West Mifflin Street. A sign reads: "Society Brand Clothes and Florsheim Shoes." Second floor windows h... |
| Date: | 05 22 1934 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Olson and Veerhusen men's store and tailoring shop located at 7-9 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 06 11 1934 |
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| Description: | Simpson's women's clothing store, with Art Deco sign, located at 23-25 Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 10 27 1955 |
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| Description: | Interior of the new, self-service Woolworth's variety store, 2-8 West Mifflin Street, showing lower sales area and balcony at the back of the store with me... |
| Date: | 10 26 1934 |
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| Description: | A driver is sitting in Licari's panel truck, next to the small art deco office of Licari Tire Company, where another man is posing at the door, 767 West Wa... |
| Date: | 09 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Kennedy Mansfield Dairy Co. ice cream bar in the Carlson's 5¢ to $1.00 Store, 2524 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 01 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Kresge $1.00 Store, located at 13 South Pinckney Street, with a window display of Valentine cards and folders. |
| Date: | 08 31 1944 |
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| Description: | View of the W.T. Grant five and ten-cent store at 19-21 South Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 07 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Co-op Electric Store, 155 East Wilson Street, showing small electric household appliances. |
| Date: | 09 09 1937 |
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| Description: | Abe Lincoln window display at Baron's taken for Robert L. Hess Agency of Lincoln National Life Insurance Company. Posters with photographs and other memora... |
| Date: | 05 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Display of carpets and rugs in Manchesters', 2-6 East Mifflin carpet shop. |
| Date: | 02 26 1936 |
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| Description: | First block of West Main Street with E.W. Parker Jewelers, 9 W. Main, Cops Cafe, 11 W. Main Street, Rennebohm's drugstore, 13 W. Main, Levitan Building (ar... |
| Date: | 12 12 1935 |
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| Description: | Men and women watching a Mautz Paint Co., demonstration in store at 118 State Street. |
| Date: | 12 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Entrance to Hub Building, 24 West Mifflin Street, showing Maiden Beauty Shop sign and part of Menges Pharmacy with a Coca-Cola sign. |
| Date: | 11 21 1935 |
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| Description: | Window display of Royal portable typewriters at the Stemp Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. |
| Date: | 12 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Welch Oyl-Ayr Heating Co., 1437 Regent Street, (Trachte building) with Ford truck parked in front. The building is next to M.J. Nilles Sheet Metal and Furn... |
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