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McDrum Drug Company

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Description: Customers pose at the soda fountain counter. Clerks are behind the counter.
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Employment Office

Date: 1933
Description: Men looking for a job during the Great Depression waiting their turn in the Employment Office waiting room, while another man is sitting with a clerk and f...
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Office

Date: 1921
Description: Two female workers and one male worker in the Service Department of the Winther Motor and Truck Company.
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Office

Date: 10 05 1921
Description: Office workers - Mr. Hagaman and Mr. Heinricks - in the General Office at the Winther Motor and Truck Company.
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Office

Date: 10 05 1921
Description: William Swift (Purchasing Agent) and Bill Evans (Assistant Purchasing Agent) at desks in the office of Winther Motor and Truck Company.
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Wisconsin Assembly Clerks and Employees

Date: 1877
Description: Composite of portraits of the men of the Wisconsin Assembly. Clerks and employees: 1. T.B. Reid, Sgt-at-Arms 2. W.A. Nowell, Chief Clerk 3. M. Knig...
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Men at Hotel Desk

Date: 1900
Description: Two men are standing at the counter of a desk at a hotel, and two men are standing behind the counter. Caption reads: "Office."
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Camp-girls Buying Ice Cream

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Description: Camp-girls buying ice cream cones from a woman at the Camp Sherwood Shoppe. Candy bars and lollipops are on the counter, and a Camp Sherwood pennant is in ...
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Palace of Sweets

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Description: Slightly elevated view of the Palace of Sweets, a restaurant-style candy shop manned with waiters and waitresses.
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Drugstore Interior

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Description: Interior of a drugstore with a soda fountain, seating, and two men staffing the counter. Items and signage lines the walls.
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Lewis Arms in Work Uniform

Date: 04 24 1957
Description: Lewis Arms sits on a railing outside University Hospital where he worked as a storeroom clerk. He is wearing a white jacket and hat.
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Jump River CCC Clerks with Trophies

Date: 1935
Description: Russ Edlerkin, Army Chief Clerk in shorts and tank top; George Arthur Weidner, Army Chief Clerk holding two trophy cups; unknown F.S. Clerk holding two tro...
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World War Monument and County Clerk's Office

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Description: View of a World War I Monument outside of the County Clerk's Office. To the left of the colonnaded Clerk's Office, the Old Courthouse, built in 1895, can ...
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August Kroll Letterhead

Date: 1888
Description: Letterhead of August Kroll of Leopolis, Wisconsin, dealer in hardware, stoves, and tinware, with an image of the interior of a store and customers being he...
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J. Swenholt Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of J. Swenholt, postmaster and dealer in general merchandise in Wittenberg, Wisconsin, with an interior view of people shopping and tending to m...
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Buchanan & Griffin Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Buchanan & Griffin, of Arkansaw, Wisconsin, dealers in "Shelf and Heavy Hardware." Features an interior view of a clerk waiting on a customer...
Postcard

Man at Hotel Reservation Desk

Date: 1909
Description: A man with a moustache stands smoking a cigar behind a hotel reservation desk. Behind him is a clock on the wall and a gramophone. A glass case on the coun...
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Mann's Restaurant

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Description: James R. Mann, and Eleanor Mann, proprietors of Mann's restaurant, standing in front of their storefront, with the clerk, Joe Haberlie, and an unknown woma...
Postcard

Interior of a General Store

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Description: Interior view of a general store with canned goods on display on shelves along the wall in the background. Two men are standing behind the counter, and fou...

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