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Filter: Creator Name of McVicar, Angus B., 1903-1964
| Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Three female employees of Rennebohm Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, wearing white uniforms, caps and neckties with slogans urging people to buy war bonds:... |
| Date: | 11 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ... |
| 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: | 10 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Merchandise counter at the United States Navy store on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 11 03 1944 |
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| Description: | U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) Band in Great Hall of the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Halloween decoration in the back... |
| Date: | 11 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Seven musicians in the Truax Field O. Henry Band on stage, decorated with banners, flags and logos of the Milwaukee Road "Hiawatha" and "Sioux" lines by th... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Booth at the U.S.O. Carnival sponsered by the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club, featuring games of chance and a model train set-up. |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club Committee standing in front of bandstand with musicians. Patriotic decorations provided by the ... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | The Army Air Force "Chicagoans" Band, with five musicians playing their instruments on a stage decorated with banners, flags and Milwaukee Road logos for "... |
| 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: | 09 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Malcolm McVicar's military insignia collection on display, with a United States flag, in the window of Photo Copy Service shop, 211 West Mifflin Street. |
| 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: | 11 08 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 9 men and 8 women employees (members of AFSCME Local 13 ?) in front of World War II Service plaque. |
| Date: | 07 1943 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota, Wisconsin, interior view of the bar showing liquor bottles and three World War II servicemen... |
| Date: | 08 17 1943 |
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| Description: | "Health for Victory" club sponsored by Oscar Mayer & Company, at Madison East High School, 2222 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 24 winners of Ray-O-Vac bond selling contest. |
| Date: | 11 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of State Civil Service employees enrolled in the staff assistance course for Red Cross and other defense related organizations, posed benea... |
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