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Rog's Superette

Date: 11 12 1967
Description: Rog's Superette, a small grocery store located on Main Street (STH 13) in Wisconsin Rapids.
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Smith's Store, Montrose, Wisconsin

Date: 1940
Description: Smith's Store in Montrose, Wisconsin.
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Receiving First Dial Telephone Call in Mazomanie

Date: 02 06 1946
Description: Charles T. Davies, Mazomanie representative of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, receives the first dial telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin ...
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Cranberry Exhibit

Date: 1950
Description: Agricultural exhibit designed by the Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association and Eatmor Cranberries. The exhibit shows various types and stages of cr...
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Couple Shopping in University Co-Op

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: Two people with a shopping cart shopping at the University of Wisconsin Co-Op.
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On the Campaign

Date: 06 1984
Description: Dwight York campaigning for Wisconsin Assembly visiting Jim Ruecker's grocery store.
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Kindergarten

Date: 1928
Description: View of the building which housed the first kindergarten in Wisconsin, opened by Mrs. Carl Schurz in 1856.
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Grocery Store Representatives at the Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1950
Description: From left to right: W.A. Riordan, John Buck, Leo Sorenson, Jean Nash and Del Hammond. Miss Nash, the owner of the cranberry marsh, escorts representatives ...
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Carlson's One Stop Market

Date: 1967
Description: Carlson's One Stop Market located on STH 22.
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Jon P. Wilcox Crossing Picket Line

Date: 1969
Description: Jon P. Wilcox (far left), cucumber grower and state legislator, crossing the grape boycott picket line at a Kroger store. In 1969, Grape boycotts in Wiscon...
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Central Wisconsin Cooperative Stores

Date: 08 11 1953
Description: Exterior view of the Central Wisconsin Cooperative Stores, Inc. building at 112 North Lake Street. The two-story brick warehouse has four loading dock door...
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Wentworth Farmers' Cooperative Store

Date: 07 1947
Description: Wentworth Farmers' Cooperative Association store organized in 1919 by a group of Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish farmers.
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Wisconsin Woman Picketing for Grape Boycott

Date: 1969
Description: A woman wearing a paisley dress is carrying a United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO sign in front of a Kroger store that reads, "Honor Picket Line/ National Cou...
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A. Erickson & Company Grocery Store

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Description: Interior of the A. Erickson & Company Grocery Store.
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Opening of A & P Supermarket

Date: 09 11 1962
Description: Miss Wisconsin, Joan Mary Engh, is cutting a symbolic ribbon signifying the official opening of the new A&P supermarket in the Hilldale Shopping Center. As...
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Milwaukee Grape Boycott Picketers

Date: 1969
Description: Picketers in front of Kroger supermarket in Milwaukee carrying United Farmworkers (UFW)/AFL-CIO signs that read, "Boycott Grapes" to support the grape boyc...
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A. Erickson & Company Grocery Store

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Description: Interior of the A. Erickson & Company Grocery Store. There is a cat sitting on the counter on the left.
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Grocery Truck

Date: 1921
Description: Universal Delivery Grocery Truck built by the Wisconsin Wagon Company. The photograph was taken in 1921, about the time the company relocated its operatio...
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Walter Peltz in his Grocery Store

Date: 1963
Description: Walter Wolf Peltz in his grocery store.
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Abbott's Grocery Store

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Description: View across unpaved road towards storefronts on a main street. Identified as Abbott's Grocery Store on the northwest corner of the Main Street intersection...

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