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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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Picketing Gimbel's

Date: 03 15 1955
Description: Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store.
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Farmall 560 Tractor

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Description: Color photograph of a man on a Farmall 560 tractor outside an International Harvester dealership. Another man stands near the tractor on the left. In the b...
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J.H. Svendsen and Joe Borecek

Date: 02 28 1945
Description: Portrait of J.H. Svendsen (left), owner of Svendsen's Painting and Decorating Firm at 118 State Street, and Joe Borecek, retail store manager. The store wa...
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National Business Women"s Week

Date: 10 04 1949
Description: The Madison Business and Professional Women's club celebrates National Business Women's Week by honoring some of its members. Pictured is Ms. Sadie G. Muns...
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Two Men in Store

Date: 1937
Description: Two men talking in an auto parts store. One man is behind the counter wearing eyeglasses and holding a box, the other man is wearing a hat and leaning on t...
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Ralph Jacobs Gift Shop

Date: 12 16 1949
Description: Ralph Jacobs looks over some of the exotic merchandise in his gift shop on County Highway PB in the town of Verona.
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Female Shopper with Smucker's Strawberry Preserves

Date: 1970
Description: A publicity photograph of a bespectacled young woman, in a 1960s mod-style dress, examining a jar of Smucker's strawberry preserves in an aisle of a grocer...
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National Food Store in the Shorewood Shopping Center

Date: 12 27 1951
Description: A woman carries groceries out of the National Food Store in the Shorewood Shopping Center, located at 3244 University Avenue in Shorewood Hills. The Magic ...
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John Satori

Date: 2008
Description: John Satori in his store.
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Bob Mulock with Customer

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Description: "Bob's Moen Photo" Owner Bob Mulock (on the right) with customer Hans Laping.
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Gene Bricker

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Portrait of Gene Bricker, store manager of Bricker's Appliance & TV at Madison East Shopping Center.
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Packers Display in Art Store Window

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Two teenage boys stand on the sidewalk looking at an art store window display featuring illustrations of the Packer players. The Packers were about to play...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Elizabeth Stemp (right), owner of the Stemp Typewriter Company, shows a typewriter to customer Mildred Subey, associated with the Herfurth Insurance Agenc...
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Women's Service Exchange

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: Berta Newel serves a customer, Hazel Van Wagene, at her new job as a clerk in the yard goods department of Yost's-Kessenich's store. Mrs. Newell received e...
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Tri-County Plumbing & Heating, Inc.

Date: 02 23 1978
Description: "Tri-County Plumbing & Heating, Inc. Almond Giese and Ralph Langenecker, proprietor, talk over a work project."
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Zimmel Implement

Date: 02 15 1978
Description: "Lynn Zimmel serves a customer at Zimmel Implement."
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Jeweler Alfreda Fauerbach

Date: 08 10 1956
Description: Portrait of Alfreda Fauerbach, president and treasurer of O.M. Nelson and Son jewelers, after 50 years of service with the firm.
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Olson & Veerhusen Contest Winner

Date: 11 13 1957
Description: Mary Lou Clingman receiving her prize, a Hart Schaffner & Marx suit, from W.M. Harris, president of Olson & Veerhusen, for winning first prize in a contest...
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Mildred Brown

Date: 12 19 1957
Description: Mildred Brown of 441 West Johnson Street has opened the "Mother Cabrini" shop in the first floor of her home.

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