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Bancroft Dairy Fountain

Date: 09 11 1937
Description: A male soda jerk is standing behind the semi-circular counter in the Bancroft Dairy fountain room, with seven customers eating ice cream.
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Dykman's Restaurant

Date: 10 12 1954
Description: Interior of the new Dykman's Restaurant, 107 West Main Street, showing the v-shaped luncheon counter with two waitresses, and featuring a Toastmaster three...
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Rennebohm Employees

Date: 1979
Description: Two Rennebohm employees take a break to read the newspaper. Although unidentified, this photograph by Chuck Patch, is thought to be the Rennebohm Drug Stor...
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Waitress at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A waitress identified only as Helen clears dirty dishes from the tables at the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 19 restaruant, 204 Cottage Grove Road. This is the ...
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Serving Breakfast at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: Barbara the waitress serves breakfast to Steve Kimbrough at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant while Albert Friedman drinks coffee and waits f...
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Breakfast at Rennebohms

Date: 1979
Description: A waitress serves ham and eggs to Steven O. Kimbrough at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. Chuck Patch, Kimbrough's breakfast companion, has...
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Three Rennebohm Waitresses

Date: 1979
Description: Waitresses Carlene, Laura, and Corey, pose for a photograph at an unidentified Rennebohm Drug Store restaurant. To the left, Steve Kimbrough, seated with h...
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Rennebohm Lunch Counter

Date: 1979
Description: Carlene, Corey, and Laura, pose with a group of customers at the lunch counter in a Rennebohm's Drug Store restaurant. Part of the restaurant and store is ...
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Robert Garvey, Bus Driver

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Portrait of Robert P. Garvey, a bus driver for the Madison Bus Company, seated behind the steering wheel.
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: City Attorney Harold E. Hanson has his blood pressure taken by Mary Clancy, Red Cross blood center staff nurse.
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Red Cross Blood Bank Drive

Date: 12 13 1951
Description: Dane County Highway Department employees line up to donate blood during the annual Red Cross blood bank drive. Left to right: James O'Connell, Russell Roed...
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Palace of Sweets

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Palace of Sweets, a restaurant-style candy shop manned with waiters and waitresses.
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Ice Cream Shop Interior

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Description: The interior of an ice cream shop, possibly Farmdale ice Cream Shop. Employees pose behind the long counters in uniform and several customers are seated at...
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Mt. Victory Diner Interior

Date: 1962
Description: Waitresses serve tables of customers seated for a meal inside the Mt. Victory truck stop. The caption on a similar photograph reads: "Service to a 'T' awai...
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Truckers at Diner Counter

Date: 1962
Description: A waitress stamps a customer's order at the counter at the Mt. Victory truck stop. The original caption reads: "Service to a 'T' awaits drivers in a hurry ...
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Mt. Victory Service Plaza Dining

Date: 1962
Description: A waitress serves four truck drivers sitting in a booth in the Mt. Victory truck stop dining room. Against the window of the booth is a tabletop jukebox.
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Robert Doyle in London

Date: 05 31 1944
Description: Robert Doyle in his room in London, England, at the Mount Royal Hotel. He is working at his typewriter in front of the window.
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A Corner of the Dining Room at Edgewater Hotel "On The River"

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Description: Two waitresses are standing at the back of the dining room at the Edgewater Hotel. All the tables are set with silverware and glasses.
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Dining Room in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of the dining room in the McCormick Works Club House. A waiter stands near the door to the kitchen in the background.
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Millston Diner

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Description: View of a man sitting on a stool at the counter of the diner. Behind the counter are standing two uniformed waitresses, perhaps twins, each holding plates ...

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