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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Assembly line packing by the Supreme Model Supply Co., a model airplane company started by Waukesha teenagers in 1940. |
| Date: | 03 19 1946 |
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| Description: | "Tricky Dogs" (magnetized black and white Scotty dogs) display at Kresge's. 25 cents and 1.00 store. |
| Date: | 03 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting at a table in Kresge's window, demonstrating "Tricky Dog" toy (magnetized black and white Scotty dogs). 25 cents - 1.00 store. |
| Date: | 12 24 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children wearing winter coats and boots, who have received Christmas gifts at a party sponsored by the Rennebohm's drug stores. |
| 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: | 03 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Typical college girl's bedroom with frilly curtains, knick-knacks on shelves, and stuffed animals on the bed at the Victoria House, 225 Lake Lawn Place. |
| Date: | 11 11 1944 |
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| Description: | The window of Rennebohm's Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, displaying Santa Claus and an array of stuffed animal toys, mainly Teddy bears. A sign on the dis... |
| Date: | 11 27 1943 |
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| Description: | Interior of Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Store, in Wisconsin Union Transfer Building, 155-303 West Wilson Street, showing toys, Christmas decorations and... |
| 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: | 05 03 1943 |
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| Description: | Hill's Dry Goods Store, 202 State Street, National Baby Week window, showing baby clothes and stuffed animals. |
| Date: | 07 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Stuffed rabbit and elephant toys. |
| Date: | 02 23 1940 |
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| Description: | Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as Little Oscar, is sitting in a Speed-o-Racer and shaking hands with Billy Marble. Behind them is the Wienermobile. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as the Coroner from "The Wizard Of Oz," shaking hands outdoors with a man wearing a hat and coat. Behind them is the Oscar Mayer W... |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Roger and Mary Sue Mallory, in front of a Christmas Tree, playing with toys their father Lieut. Col. Robert Mallory, stationed in France, sent to them. Rog... |
| Date: | 07 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Animated display window at Master Furriers, 11 West Main Street, "Madison City of Prosperity," display of miniature storefronts with Madison merchants' sto... |
| Date: | 11 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Colored drawing including animals and trees used as background for a toy display, H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 11 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Colored drawing featuring animals is a background for a toy display, H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Two children, a boy and a girl, look at display of toys in a store window. |
| Date: | 01 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Patricia Fitzpatrick and her mother Frances Risdon Fitzpatrick, seated by a Christmas tree with opened presents, including several stuffed animals. Patrici... |
| Date: | 04 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Whitney Mason Gould, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stevens Gould, 712 Rogers Street, with a stuffed rabbit illustrating traditional Easter gifts for children. |
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