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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A business man stands in a seafood store with a neon lobster sign. He is watching the construction of the World Trade Center through the window. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view over sidewalk towards eight horses drawing a circus wagon in parade. The parade is coming from the circus ground at the white pine g... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men driving a circus calliope for a parade in town. A calliope is a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam throu... |
| Date: | 05 17 1927 |
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| Description: | Mr. Dennison (left), manager of the Lucas Hardware Company, an International Harvester dealership, stands with another man in front of six assembled harves... |
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| Description: | Shops contained on first floor of a Victorian structure, one of which belongs to a woman named Mary. Standing in front are her husband and two sons. Furthe... |
| Date: | 02 18 1935 |
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| Description: | View from street of a man wearing overalls and a hat loading a loaf of Lippman's bread into a box shelved in the back of an International truck owned by Li... |
| Date: | 01 24 1935 |
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| Description: | A man reaches into an open door on the left side of a refrigerated compartment of an International truck owned by Standard Ice Cream. The truck is parked i... |
| Date: | 01 12 1929 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck parked along the curb in front of an Italian-American Grocery. The sign o... |
| Date: | 09 1921 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Hayden & Harms, an International Harvester dealership. Several men are standing near the building's front door near displayed farm impleme... |
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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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| 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... |
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| Description: | Group of men, women, children and a dog posing standing in front of G.M. Breakey Drugs and Groceries. One man, perhaps the grocer, is standing in front of ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc... |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Robert Retzlaff (left), manager of the newly opened Ben Franklin variety store at 4204 Monona Drive, posing in the foreground on his store's first day of b... |
| Date: | 2012 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | View from street of two men standing just inside the open doorway of the storefront. Trunks are displayed on pallets set up on the wooden sidewalk. Dexter ... |
| Date: | 04 2014 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman are standing behind the counter at Lane's Bakery. The glass display case has three rows of baked goods. There are three tall movable rack... |
| Date: | 03 14 1923 |
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| Description: | View of two men posing while sitting in the driver's seats of two trucks parked in front of a dealership. The doors of the trucks have painted signs that r... |
| Date: | 05 04 1927 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a grocery delivery truck. The sign on the side of the truck reads: "Ted's Market, 125 Fift... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Tempted by a display of hats, Doris Ardelt (reflected in the mirror) and Joal Fenn l... |
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