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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
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Hill's Shoe Department
August 9, 1935
Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, shoe department, showing pneumatic tube paying system.
Hill's Fur Coat Department
August 5, 1935
Hill's Dry Goods Company, 202 State Street, fur coat department, showing racks of fur coats.
Hill's Dry Goods Store Tire Department
April 27, 1933
Hill's Dry Goods Store, new Firestone Tire shop, 202 State Street.
Burdick & Murray Shoe Department
February 29, 1932
The shoe department in Burdick & Murray Co., located at 15-19 E. Main Street.
Hill's Department Store Record Display Window
September 29, 1957
Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, display window featuring a sale on 12" 33 1/3 RPM long play records.
Hill's Dry Goods Store Corset Department
March 9, 1934
Hill's Dry Goods Store, corset department. There are tables piled with various styles of foundation garments.
