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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Will Viel chooses a cigar in Margraff & Freiburger's Dry Goods Store. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View of a horse-drawn float decorated with banners and flags and rows of pharmaceuticals on shelves. Two costumed children are posing in the back. A large ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A holiday display of German-made Christmas ornaments, possibly in a store window. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Russell Block, 1606-1608 Tower Avenue. The 1899 City Directory makes the first mention of New York Furriers, Simmons and Malik, proprietors. New York F... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Carl Bohnsack (left) and August Marquardt sitting on a bench outside a jewelry store. They are wearing hats and suits. Pocket watches are on display in the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Three men posing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods and jars of candy on the shelves behind them on the left, and pharmaceuticals are on t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An interior view of Brennecke and Bergmann Pharmacy on the corner 4th and Main Street. Two children are sitting on a chair in the middle of the floor, whil... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Counters and display cases show goods for sale in the General Store. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An automobile on display for the twelfth annual Milwaukee Auto Dealers show. The show was held January 19-25. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View towards a woman standing at the meat counter of the Madison Packing Company. She is buying chickens from a man standing behind the counter which has a... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men talking in an auto parts store. One man is behind the counter wearing eyeglasses and holding a box, the other man is wearing a hat and leaning on t... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Smith's Store, featuring a glass topped case filled with merchandise. Pails and a large light fixture hang from the ceiling, and boxes of ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four snack bar employees, one woman and four men, standing behind a counter. Behind them are shelves with a display of candy in boxes. S... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A man carrying an umbrella is gazing into the display window of Levinger's Antique Shop, Jefferson and East Main Street. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Several people peer into a storefront window on Capitol Square. This window shopping is perhaps in preparation for the Christmas holiday. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | William Behnke selling out after 60 years as the neighborhood grocer at North Avenue and 29th Street. There are four people behind the counter, and custome... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a general store. Items are stacked on the floor, tables and shelves. |
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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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| Description: | Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t... |
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