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Rhythm Girls

Date: 06 25 1932
Description: Fanchon and Mario "Rhythm Girls" posing in front of an A&W Root Beer. They are standing in a line and holding mugs of root beer.
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World's Largest Tire

Date: 11 02 1930
Description: Group of people, including dwarfs and midgets, posing with "the worlds largest tire" in front of the RKO Orpheum Theatre as part of a promotion for Goodyea...
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Fall Festival Entertainers

Date: 09 08 1930
Description: Four women are playing banjos in the McVicar Photo Service Booth at the 1930 East Side Businessman's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival.
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Morey's Flying Billboard

Date: 04 17 1928
Description: Howard Morey posing in an airplane that advertised Pennco Oil, his distributorship of Waco airplanes, and his flying school. Two women sit in front of him....
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McConley's Food Market Interior

Date: 09 11 1945
Description: McConley's Food Market, interior, 1254 East Washington Avenue, showing counter with scale, shopper carts, shelves of canned goods, refrigerator in rear, Bo...
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Acacia Fraternity Bowery Party

Date: 03 26 1938
Description: Acacia fraternity "Bowery" party, with couples in costume. There are many commercial posters and advertising on the wall in the background.
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Safety League Mystery Ship

Date: 07 18 1935
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...
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Acacia Fraternity Nut Party

Date: 03 23 1935
Description: Group portrait of Acacia fraternity members and their dates, at 108 Langdon Street, at a nut party. The group is posing with many advertisement posters whi...
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"Madame White" Cosmetics Car and Employees

Date: 08 17 1934
Description: Group portrait of "Madame White" cosmetics sales staff with car and signage for an event at the Capitol Theatre with Richard Barthelmess in "Midnight Alibi...
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Comfy Marcel Shoppe Interior

Date: 11 22 1934
Description: Five beauty operators and four customers in the Comfy Marcel Shoppe, 1917 Winnebago Street, beauty parlor. Includes advertising text: "For better beauty cu...
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Palace Beauty Shop

Date: 10 20 1933
Description: Advertisement for the Palace Beauty Shop, 531 State Street, with a view of beauty operators working with three customers, and the banner: "We make loveline...
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"Lux" Girls

Date: 07 24 1933
Description: Group portrait of women posing for a Lux soap publicity drive on the steps in front of the Clarridge Apartments.
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Horse-Drawn Cart Advertising Movie

Date: 09 24 1932
Description: Horse-drawn cart advertising "Horsefeathers," a Marx Brothers movie, for the RKO Orpheum Theatre. "Mad Mirth takes a chariot ride among the wild oats."
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Fanchon & Marco Showgirls

Date: 05 20 1932
Description: Fanchon & Marco showgirls posing while wearing straw hats at Karsten's clothing store.
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Fair Oaks Market Interior

Date: 06 20 1931
Description: Fair Oaks Market interior, with meat counter and other food products, butcher and customers. August F. Schulz was the manager of the store.
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RKO Parade Float

Date: 06 05 1931
Description: RKO parade float, with people on the float and ushers standing beside, advertising "cool and comfortable as a summer vacation" for the Orpheum and Capitol ...
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Willson Sunglasses Paste-up

Date: 03 04 1957
Description: Advertising paste-up of three women wearing three different types of Willson Sunglasses: J25D, J26D, J27D.
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Borden's Ice Cream Display Case

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Borden's ice cream in display case, with a person (hand and arm only showing) lifting a carton of ice cream from case, taken for a TV ad.

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