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Exquisite Harp on Display in Madison Store

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: Helen Kowalke, an employe of Forbes-Meagher Music Company, tries out the harp on display at the store.
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Exquisite Harp on Display in Madison Store

Date: 11 16 1960
Description: Ben Rhodes, manager of Forbes-Meagher Music Company's instrument department, poses with the harp on display at the store.
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Montgomery Ward's Phonograph Records Department

Date: 01 07 1944
Description: Interior of the Montgomery Ward Company phonograph record department, 215 State Street.
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Two Men Standing Indoors

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Description: Two men are standing indoors, one man on the left and the other on the right. In the center is a vintage hand crank phonograph. A sign hanging on the back ...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer Anne Davis playing a vinyl record in a listening booth before making a decision to purchase it.
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Customers Judy Schwandner and May Nicolaus enjoy hearing a record playing on a turntable in the store's listening booth.
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer Nancy Thomsen purchasing a vinyl record. Other 33rpm records are displayed along the back wall and counter top, and 45s are sitting inside a glass...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer John Salzer (left) looking over an album with George Dasson. Other 33rpm vinyl records are displayed on the wall, and framed photographs of musica...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Record shop employee Charles Lunde (right) explaining the merits of Charlie Ventura's septet to customer Richard Mallum, who is admiring the cover of the v...
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Joseph Hackel Building and Stanley Hanks Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards the right half of the Joseph Hackel Building and the Stanley Hanks Building. The ground floor of the Joseph Hackel Buildin...
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Blied Building on Madison Capitol Square

Date: 01 1963
Description: View from street of businesses along West Main Street, long after the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street, when the top two stories were ...
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Music Store

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Description: Interior view of a music shop with phonographs, violins, phonograph records displayed on the wall, and wax cylinders lining a shelf.
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300 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: optometrist (closed), Neff's Beauty Salon, Wisconsin Blue ...
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Run on the First National Bank

Date: 04 1905
Description: Elevated view of street scene of a run on the First National Bank. The sidewalk is crowded with people, spilling into the street. A horse-drawn buggy is dr...
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Otto Rindlisbacher with Hardanger Fiddle

Date: 08 15 1941
Description: Otto Rindlisbacher, folk singer and maker of stringed instruments, and violin collection, sitting in his shop holding a Hardanger fiddle. Caption at bottom...
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Neese, Kustermann & Root Billhead

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Description: Billhead of Neese, Kustermann & Root of Green Bay, Wisconsin, stationers, printers, book-binders, and dealers in musical instruments and sewing machines. T...
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Three Men Playing Musical Instruments

Date: 1900
Description: Three Men Playing Musical Instruments, Edward Schwaller at left; Frank H. Schwaller in middle; man at right unidentified. Probably inside Schwaller Music ...
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Man in Musical Instrument Store Room

Date: 1900
Description: A well-dressed man sits in a chair in a Schwaller Music Store on Pine Street. Various pianos are on display. There are signs for Sohmer Pianos and New Home...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage near Storefronts

Date: 1900
Description: Looking east across Pine Street at the F. A. Schwaller Music Store / Schwaller's Real Estate Office, flanked by Theodore Riel's dry goods and grocery store...
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Commerical Storefronts

Date: 1900
Description: Looking east across Pine street at the storefronts of J. Wien's clothing, dry goods, and grocery store, Black's Dry Goods store, Schwaller's Real Estate Of...

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