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| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Donut queen posed for advertising campaign. The female model is holding a box of donuts and is sitting on a large clock bearing the slogan: "It's Always Do... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from street towards ushers posing in front of the Capitol Theatre. The marquee reads: "Maurice Chevalier in 'The Love Parade.'" |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Women and men at work inside an office. The women are using typewriters. A large advertisement for International motor trucks is on one wall. |
| Date: | 01 1942 |
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| Description: | Man and woman consider buying Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps from a clerk at a basement CUNA Credit Union National Association office. |
| Date: | 12 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Three female employees in the CUNA (Credit Union National Association) general office. 142 E. Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 10 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Royal Tailors, Inc. display window located at 12 East Mifflin Street, with neon advertising. |
| Date: | 09 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Loraine Hotel lobby with local business directory next to registration desk, male customer at registration counter and two clerks in front of Western Union... |
| Date: | 01 23 1928 |
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| Description: | Schenk's Corners, with the Security State Bank, located at Atwood Avenue and Winnebago Street. On the right hand side of the view is Hausmann Fuel Company,... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exhibit in the showroom of International Harvester's General Office building demonstrating the features of the Farmall Fast-Hitch. The exhibit includes a F... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 15 1966 |
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| Description: | At a demonstration against the payment of taxes to support the war in Vietnam, a young man burns his check to the Internal Revenue Service. Probably in fro... |
| Date: | 09 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Ralph Olson, left, a member of the governing body of Zor Shrine, presenting Roundy Coughlin with a special Kelly green fez as a token of appreciation for h... |
| Date: | 03 16 1936 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Ralph W. Page, G.M. [of] Tri-State Ice Cream Co. Taken by Madison Branch House." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing by a cooler with a beer bottle in her hand at Reed's Cafe near a stove and countertop. Original caption states: "McCormick-Deering 6 ca... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is filling a glass from a faucet mounted on a McCormick-Deering 6 can cooler in the Floyd Kaylor Restaurant. Three people are sitting at a counter ... |
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| Description: | At Lou Braslawsky's kosher meat market, a butcher holds a roast for a customer to examine. A sign at the back of the store suggests that chickens, not beef... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An imposing two-story structure on the corner of Oak Street and Third Avenue. Lawyers offices occupy the upstairs. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry G. Holden demonstrates the benefits of growing alfalfa to a group of men, women, and children standing in a crossroads in a commercial area... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street of a group of employees, all men, posing outside their cafe. The cafe advertises Kennedy Dairy Company brand ice cream, Coca-Cola produc... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street of a group of men standing on the sidewalk in front of the bank. A streetlamp hangs from a utility line. |
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