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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy promoting National Pharmacy Week. National Pharmacy Week was used as a way to help educate consumers about the role pha... |
| Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, photographed in front of the store. The majority of the employees are waitresses. War bond posters ... |
| Date: | 10 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Leath's Incorporated, 117 to 119 State Street, display window containing silhouettes of electric household appliances, with a sign that reads: "We'll soon ... |
| Date: | 05 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Window display at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig, 17 South Pinckney Street, with post-war appliances including products by Vollrath, Filter Queen, West Bend, General... |
| Date: | 05 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Display in left window of future post-war products including appliances manufactured by Toastmaster, All America, General Electric, Proctor, Sunbeam, Steam... |
| Date: | 09 07 1944 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Inc., window display promoting saving paper. Shows fake bomb falling on various ammunition with slogans that read: "Get in the Scrap," "... |
| Date: | 01 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Display of personal care products in the window of Rennebohm Drug Store #10, 676 State Street. Here the promotion to buy large size items seen in other Ren... |
| Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Tiedeman Drug Store, 702 University Avenue, display window showing Saturday Evening Post magazine covers with war theme, with a male and a female em... |
| Date: | 06 18 1946 |
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| Description: | Display window at Leath Furniture Company, 117-119 State Street. Features Sealy mattresses in bedroom setting, soldier sleeping in a twin bed dreaming of a... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Crowds at the corner of East Mifflin Street and North Pinckney Street on V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of J... |
| Date: | 06 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ... |
| Date: | 05 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Tom Miller, of 1815 Vilas Avenue, a newsboy for the "Wisconsin State Journal," selling an "extra" edition of the newspaper to Sgt. Ralph Jacobson, announci... |
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| Description: | A World War II soldier holds an infant in front of a grocery store. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men stand outdoors by a pile of scrap metal intended for donation to the war effort at the Chapman and Follmer International Harvester dealership. A ro... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | View through storefront window of a woman and a man working in an International Harvester Company war production exhibit at the Labor Recruiting Office. Th... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Me and women line the sidewalks to watch an International Harvester parade float go by. The float is decorated with uniformed men in a jeep, and palm trees... |
| Date: | 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Men and women stand on either side of a street to watch an International truck used as a float for the Naval Air Tech Training Center as part of a Navy Day... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | An International tractor pulls a parade float down a commercial street lined with spectators. The float celebrates International Harvester's war production... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a storefront window of the Burlington Farm Machinery Corporation, an International Harvester dealership. The window display includes posters pr... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International truck with a trailer full of scrap metal parked outside the R.H. Gehrke Company, an International Harvester dealership. William Le Capitaine,... |
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