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Interior of North St. Market

Date: 04 08 1938
Description: Four employees behind the meat counter in the North St. Meat Market (Jacobson's), 227 North Street.
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Peter F. Smyth Grocery Store

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: Interior of the Peter F. Smyth Grocery Store, located at 1202 West Dayton Street.
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Levenick Brothers Market

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: Interior of Levenick Brothers Meat Market with Toledo Scale. The market was located at 1406 Williamson Street.
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Butcher Shop Interior

Date: 1903
Description: Interior view of the butcher shop section of the Fowler and Holmes Store. There is wood paneling and cabinetry throughout the room, shelving and hooks on t...
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Inspecting Sisal Fiber at a Twine Mill

Date: 1948
Description: Female factory workers inspect sisal fiber, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. The fibers were stacked in piles and then weighed on a floor scale.
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Customers in General Store

Date: 1939
Description: Two women and a girl stand near a counter inside a general store as a man shows them a product. A cat and a dog sleep on the floor in the background, and a...
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Braslawsky's Kosher Market

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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...
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Shopping for Sausage

Date: 1935
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...
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Chas. Genge Meat Market

Date: 1911
Description: Exterior view of the meat market. A man wearing a butcher's jacket stands on the porch alongside a platform scale.
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Boscobel Meat Market

Date: 1905
Description: A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho...
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Grain Delivery Truck

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small building holding the...
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Industrial Tractors at Weigh Station

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an open truck loaded with grain, which is sitting on a scale at a weigh station. A man is standing near a small bu...

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