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Grocery Store

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Description: A woman is being waited on by a man standing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods are stacked on shelves along the wall behind the counter.
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Grocery Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter.
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Christmas Returns

Date: 12 26 1982
Description: A Target retail store is flooded with customers returning Christmas gifts.
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Customer at International Harvester Dealership Service Counter

Date: 1942
Description: Customer standing at the service counter of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters for the U.S. Truck Conservation Corps and WWII scrap...
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Manchester's Department Store Photo Studio

Date: 11 29 1944
Description: The photo studio department in Manchester's Department Store. A man is assisting a female customer, while female employees do their work.
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Thom McAn Shoe Store

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Clerks help customers try on shoes at the Thom McAn Shoe Store, 224 State Street.
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Avenue Food Shop

Date: 04 23 1931
Description: Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale.
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Self-Service Supermarket

Date: 1953
Description: A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market.
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Grocery Store Checkout Counter

Date: 01 13 1955
Description: Two clerks at a grocery store checkout counter with a woman and child purchasing milk and bread. The shelves behind the register are stocked with a selecti...
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Shoppers in Grocery Store

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: Two grocery store employees placing Dean's Milk in grocery cart for a woman and her two children.
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Grocery Store Shoppers

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: A father and two children at the Kroger grocery store check out counter purchase Dean's milk, Red Dot potato chips, Kroger pancake mix, macaroni, and bread...
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Hi-Lo Supermarket Counter

Date: 01 23 1953
Description: Two checkout counters at the Hi-Lo supermarket at 2038 Jenifer Street, with unidentified clerks and customers.
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General Store

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Description: Four men, a dog and a boy sitting on the porch of the general store. Signs in the windows read, "Ferry & Co. Seeds" and "Rape seed for sale." A barn and wi...
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Women's Service Exchange

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: Berta Newel serves a customer, Hazel Van Wagene, at her new job as a clerk in the yard goods department of Yost's-Kessenich's store. Mrs. Newell received e...
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The Mart

Date: 02 18 1978
Description: "The Mart. Mrs. Karl Hoff tends the drugstore in its 'Going Out of Business Sale.'"
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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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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...
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Man and Woman in Drugstore

Date: 1960
Description: A man and woman stand behind the service counter at a drugstore.
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Crime Re-enactment

Date: 04 23 1986
Description: This image was captured during the re-enactment of a crime that took place at a convenience store on Tuesday, April 22nd, 1986. The killing of Andrew N. Ne...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
Description: Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ...

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