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| Date: | 07 29 1955 |
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| Description: | Millard's Tavern, 504 East Wilson Street with Fauerbach CB beer sign and "Bobby Hodges radio & TV star, Every Friday Night." Also shows Marty's Sandwich Sh... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Advertising calendar for Deering farm machinery featuring color illustration of a street in a French town with people looking on as a man puts up a "Deerin... |
| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Educational window display promoting awareness about tuberculosis at the Frankfurter Pharmacy. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
| 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: | 06 27 1980 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a pharmacy advertising "Low Cost Drugs." The building also has a painted advertisement for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | International Model H or 21 truck, farm equipment, and two employees in front of the Butler and Peckels International Harvester dealership. Signs in the wi... |
| Date: | 10 13 1963 |
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| Description: | Gasoline station, with Standard Oil Products and Champion signs, in old false front building. |
| Date: | 12 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Neon lights up Wisconsin Avenue on a winter night in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 08 13 1936 |
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| Description: | Parked automobile with Every-House Appliance Co. trailer-hitched, and advertising that reads: "Every House Needs Westinghouse," in front of the Westinghous... |
| Date: | 12 15 1935 |
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| Description: | Entrance to Hub Building, 24 West Mifflin Street, showing Maiden Beauty Shop sign and part of Menges Pharmacy with a Coca-Cola sign. |
| Date: | 11 21 1935 |
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| Description: | Window display of Royal portable typewriters at the Stemp Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. |
| Date: | 10 02 1935 |
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| Description: | Jones Typewriter Co., 512 State Street, showing Corona typewriter display: "Corona Crashes Through The World Over." |
| Date: | 07 18 1935 |
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| Description: | A man spinning the propeller with Frank A. Sloan in the pilot seat and a women is sitting in the back of a car that looks like an airplane. They are at a G... |
| Date: | 06 13 1935 |
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| Description: | Show window at Wehrmann's, 508 State Street, of a display of luggage. Signs read: "Luggage for the Grad." There is also a poster for "National Railroad Wee... |
| Date: | 03 25 1935 |
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| Description: | Stemp Typewriter Company, 533 State Street, with window display of Royal typewriters. |
| Date: | 08 30 1932 |
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| Description: | 1898 Oldsmobile decorated with advertising for "Mickey and Minnie Mouse in Person" at RKO Orpheum Theatre in front of Weber's Restaurant, 218 State Street.... |
| Date: | 03 31 1932 |
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| Description: | Royal Portable Typewriters on display in the window at Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. The name was later changed to Stemp Typewriter Comp... |
| Date: | 03 31 1932 |
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| Description: | Royal Portable Typewriters on display in the window at Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. The name was later changed to Stemp Typewriter Comp... |
| Date: | 02 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Window display of Royal typewriters at the Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. The name was later changed to the Stemp Typewriter Company. |
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