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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Circus parade passing Frederick and Mary Mark's confectionary. This view is north-northeast beyond the intersection of Williamson and Dickenson Streets. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | View of a large Columbus Day parade from Jackson and Third Streets. In the extreme right foreground is Conrad Althen's Store, and the Anderson and Larson S... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the baby department at Kresge's store. |
| Date: | 10 23 1924 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Christmas toy display at F.W. Woolworth, 1 East Main Street. Sign includes an image of Santa Claus. |
| Date: | 11 27 1943 |
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| Description: | Interior of Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Store, in Union Transfer Building, 155-303 West Wilson, showing toys, Christmas decorations and lamps and applia... |
| Date: | 12 1940 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin athletes trying on shoes in the Walk-Over Shoe Store, 8 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 10 05 1936 |
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| Description: | Woman, winner of radio contest, standing next to a Grunow floor model radio. Banner reads: "Grunow Teledial, the self-tuning radio" at the University Radio... |
| Date: | 05 05 1934 |
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| Description: | Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Co. hardware store, located at 17 South Pinckney Street. There is a lighted "TOYS" sign above the second floor display window. The vie... |
| Date: | 04 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Interior of Felton Gun Store, located at 120 E. Washington Avenue, with elk, deer, and mountain goat heads mounted on the wall among the firearms and hunti... |
| Date: | 03 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Sears Roebuck & Co. sporting goods display, featuring guns and golf clubs with "Hercules Work Clothes" sign. |
| Date: | 01 06 1932 |
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| Description: | A man builds a Ferris wheel with an Erector set at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Company, located at 17 S. Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 06 06 1929 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the sports department at Sears Roebuck & Co. at 313 State Street. |
| Date: | 09 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Continental Store grand opening sale, 6 North Street. Interior view showing counters and merchandise, washing machines, bicycles, auto parts and cash regis... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on a city street surrounded by onlookers, perhaps a parade or some other public event. Two of the men in the street are carrying photography... |
| Date: | 09 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of customers standing in line on the sidewalk waiting to purchase shotgun shells at Berg Sporting Goods Store, 2123 Atwood Avenue. O... |
| Date: | 09 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Three men and one salesman looking at duck decoys and buying shotgun shells inside Berg Sporting Goods Store, 2123 Atwood Avenue. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Clockwise from upper left images include: Cutters Point, Long Lake, Wis.; M.E. Church, New Auburn, Wis.; Farmers Store, New Auburn, Wis.; Public School, Ne... |
| Date: | 12 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Jancie Cordes, DeForest, with unidentified woman looking at a display of stuffed animals (at Wolff, Kubly, and Hirsig). |
| Date: | 07 01 1935 |
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| Description: | A six-can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler on display in an International Harvester dealership. A display case on the left near a window holds either toys or... |
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