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Mexican Market Scene

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Description: A market scene in Juarez, Mexico with people standing around pottery and various other items being sold from a blanket laid on the ground.
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African American Women Selling Fruit

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Description: Two African American women wearing hats selling fruit at a stand made of wood panels placed on top of barrels in Bermuda.
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Vegetable Vendor With Basket Balanced on Head

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Description: African American vegetable vendor with a large basket of vegetables balanced on her head.
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Vegetable Vendor with Basket Balanced on Head

Date: 1900
Description: African American vegetable vendor with a large basket of vegetables balanced on her head and another in the crook of her arm. Text on photograph reads "Veg...
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Grain Seller

Date: 12 30 1937
Description: Grain sellers sitting in the market place in Zliten, Lybia. They are wearing traditional Arab robes and head wraps.
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Button Seller

Date: 08 2000
Description: A man sells Gore-Lieberman buttons at Riverside Park.
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Vendors at City Market

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of men standing around vendor trucks parked at the city fruit market in front of commercial buildings. A building in the background has a sig...
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Booths on the Midway

Date: 08 1948
Description: Crowded midway at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Signs above booths read "Circus Candy," "Cigarettes," "Snow Balls," "Souvenirs," "Guess?" and "Aqua ...
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Crowd at the Centennial Exposition

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: A crowded street at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition State Fairgrounds. Above the crowd is a banner reading "The Fastest And Funniest Show On Ice." Amer...
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Evening Crowd at Centennial Exposition

Date: 08 1948
Description: A crowd walking the grounds of the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition in the early evening. An electric sign on the right says "Terrel Jacobs Wild Animal Circ...
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Salesman at Fair

Date: 08 1948
Description: A large crowd has gathered to hear a carnival barker sell bottles of something at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. Cure-all-pills? Snake-oils? No sign ...
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Warsaw Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion.
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Good Humor Ice Cream Truck

Date: 06 01 1936
Description: The driver of a Good Humor ice cream truck sells ice cream to a young customer in a residential neighborhood.
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William Steiger Campaigning

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Description: Bill Steiger (right) speaks to several men as he campaigns for congress. Dick Cheney is visible on the far left.
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Street Traders at Apia

Date: 02 25 1945
Description: Indigenous traders on the sidewalk in front of the Burns Philip Ltd. Store display window at Apia, British Samoa (today the independent country of Samoa). ...
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Farmer's Market

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Description: Elevated view of the farmer's market on East Washington Avenue near storefronts. Many horse-drawn buggies and wagons are lined up on both sides of the aven...
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Municipal Market

Date: 1918
Description: Farm produce for sale from farm trucks at the Municipal Market on the Capitol Square. The Municipal market was established by a committee of women in July,...
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Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1922
Description: The Hustler Harvest Festival featured the giveaway of a 1922 Packard touring automobile donated by Morg Rider, a dealer for Studebaker, Reo, Nash, Chevrole...
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Flower Vendor

Date: 2012
Description: Hmong gardener kneeling and looking into the camera at the Northside Farmer’s Market. She is wearing a white hat, light blue shirt, royal blue apron, green...
Postcard

Lunch Stand at Durand

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view of a lunch stand advertising buttered popcorn, ice cream cones and cigars. Groups of men, women and children are...

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