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| Description: | Customers pose at the soda fountain counter. Clerks are behind the counter. |
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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: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Looking south at street corner. There is a brick building, with a sign that says "Printing Office," and a pharmacy to the right. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Palace of Sweets, a restaurant-style candy shop manned with waiters and waitresses. |
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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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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the store's interior, with people posing behind the counters. Some of the items for sale are glassware, fruit, and souvenir penna... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Irene Steinkopf, a former Milwaukee journalist, shops for sausage in Vienna where her husband had been assigned by the Associated Press. A bit much for two... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 25 1945 |
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| 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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| Description: | William R. "Bill" Kinney (1912-1978) behind the bar of the White Front Tavern. Bill and his brother Howard Kinney owned the bar from 1948-1956. Three unide... |
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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 ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the M.E. Lawrence butcher shop. Meat carcasses are hanging along the wall on the left behind a wood and wire barrier. Stools are along the... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Note on reverse reads: "Windsor Blaisdell of Rhinelander in meat-market of this old store." He is standing behind the wood stove, and the butcher is leanin... |
| Date: | 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "July 1941. This is an exterior view of our new and enlarged store at West Allis, Wis. Note the double set of doors and corner entra... |
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