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Meat Market Display

Date: 1939
Description: Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display.
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Grocery Store

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Description: A woman is being waited on by a man standing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods are stacked on shelves along the wall behind the counter.
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Civil Works Service Employee gives out a Check

Date: 02 10 1934
Description: A Civil Works Service employee with a check and equivalent in groceries.
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Fred Schenk Grocery Store

Date: 1907
Description: Interior of the Fred Schenk grocery store on the corner of Atwood Avenue and Winnebago Street. Included in the photograph are Art Ramsey, Matilda Schenk, a...
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"Hot Dr. Pepper" Supermarket Display

Date: 1966
Description: Costumed saleswoman at a supermarket display for Dr. Pepper soft drinks. The display includes samples of "Hot Dr. Pepper" and "winter warmer."
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Grocery Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter.
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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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Woman Shopping at Kroger Store

Date: 07 09 1943
Description: A woman shopping in the produce department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She was promoting the Oscar Mayer Health for Victor...
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Shopping at Kroger's

Date: 07 1943
Description: A woman shopping in the meat department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She is there to promote the wartime Oscar Mayer Health...
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Linden Hill Grocery Store

Date: 06 19 1938
Description: Linden Hill Grocery Store, 36 South Fair Oaks Avenue. Anton "Tony" Lazarz and his wife Bernice, owners of the store, are sitting on the curb in the foregro...
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Hard Times Party

Date: 06 13 1936
Description: Group portrait of Kroger employees in costume at a Hard Times Party, Schenk's Hall, 2028 Atwood Avenue. There is a man with an accordion in the background.
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Miller Grocery

Date: 10 02 1935
Description: Miller Grocery Store, located at 113 North Hamilton Street. The interior of the store has food displays and shelving, and five people are standing in the b...
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Kraft Display in Grocery Store

Date: 09 06 1934
Description: Two sales clerks dressed as sailors standing beside the ship S.S. Kraft filled with Kraft and Miracle Whip salad dressing products. The display is in Frank...
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Kroger Air Show Hostesses

Date: 04 28 1934
Description: Ten hostesses dressed in white flying uniforms with helmets and goggles posing at the Kroger Grocery and Baking Co. air show and food exposition. They are ...
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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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Avenue Food Shop

Date: 04 23 1931
Description: Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale.
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Avenue Food Shop

Date: 04 23 1931
Description: Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, 2427 University Avenue, with a woman weighing items on an old balance beam scale.
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Gfroerer & Son's Booth at ESBMA Fall Festival

Date: 08 11 1929
Description: Gfroerer & Son's Independent Grocer's Alliance of America. (I.G.A.) grocery store booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. Ther...
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Self-Service Supermarket

Date: 1953
Description: A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market.
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Meat Boycott

Date: 04 06 1973
Description: Two women picketing in front of a shopping center urging the boycotting of meat. One woman carries a NFO sign that reads: "Farm families must be paid for t...

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