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| Date: | 09 28 1942 |
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| Description: | Highway billboard advertising Wisconsin cheese for the Department of Agriculture and Markets. |
| Date: | 11 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Oriental rug business owned by Solomon Gulessarian at 319 State Street. The Palace Barber Shop is next door on the right. |
| Date: | 04 1973 |
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| Description: | A Marlboro cigarette billboard advertisement looms over King Street. |
| Date: | 05 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Four men are looking on during installation of a billboard designed by Hinkson Advertising Agency, at the corner of S. Park Street and Olin Avenue. The sig... |
| Date: | 08 09 1933 |
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| Description: | "Madison Welding" NRA (National Recovery Administration) sign painted on the side of a building, possibly on the side of Madison Welding at 9 N. Ingersoll ... |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | A man stands with an Automotive Electric Company truck in front of a Delco Battery billboard. |
| Date: | 05 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Strand Theater, with marquee advertising Warner Baxter and Carol Lombard in "The Arizona Kid," and Collyer's Pharmacy, Kinney Shoes, and a Heinz billboard. |
| Date: | 05 19 1930 |
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| Description: | Johnson Oil Refining Company billboard. "20 years of quality ... time tells!" Featuring Father Time holding an hourglass in the center of the logo for "Joh... |
| Date: | 05 19 1930 |
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| Description: | Johnson Oil Refining Company billboard. "Dependable refiners ... time tells!" Featuring 2 different logos for "Johnson Gasolene, Time Tells": the one on th... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of Joe's Liquor Store at 702 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | A view of University Avenue near the intersection of Park Street looking south towards the storefronts of Campus Camera at 827 University Avenue and Choles... |
| Date: | 07 29 1952 |
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| Description: | Buick advertising sign in the first block of North Fairchild Street, uncovered by workers who removed another billboard that had covered the old sign. |
| Date: | 02 14 1956 |
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| Description: | A two-man crew puts up a 24-sheet poster of outdoor advertising about the First National Bank. It takes 15 to 20 minutes to put the advertising up on this ... |
| Date: | 04 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall at 118 Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Boulevard). The building was three windows wide... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a billboard from the Wis. Poster Advertising Co. promoting the Schoelkopf Ford dealership with an ad: "The Nearest Service Is Ford Service ... |
| Date: | 04 04 1964 |
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| Description: | A Scandinavian trade delegation of 25 Norwegian businessmen and journalists visit Madison to publicize the inaugural flight of Scandinavian Airlines System... |
| Date: | 12 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Drawing attention to a large billboard sign is Edwin Traisman, left, president of McDonald's of Madison, and Vernon Cox of Vivid Outdoor Advertising Compan... |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Atwood Alleys bowling alley, 2164 Atwood Avenue, owned and operated by William Freund. There are advertisements for Centenni... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across State Street towards an empty lot used for parking between Block Cleaners on the left, and the Wooden Nickel on the right. Three cars are parke... |
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