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CA-VEL Fabrics Window Display
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CA-VEL fabrics window display at Leath's furniture store, 117 State Street, showing a living room scene with panels of CA-VEL deep pile mohair upholstery fabrics, an angora goat whose fleece is known as Mohair, and fabric torture test machine. Taken for Collins & Aikman Corp., with over 100 years of fine upholstery fabrics.
June 20, 1949
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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McCammon Upholstery Display Window
February 14, 1934
Furniture and fabrics in Charles D. McCammon "Superior Upholstering" display window, 851 East Johnson Street, with National Recovery Administration sign.
Leath's Furniture Store
May 22, 1934
Leath's furniture and floor coverings store, 117-119 State Street.
Manchester's Sun Dresses Window Display
April 7, 1949
Manchester's Incorporated, 2 East Mifflin Street, "Petti" sun dresses display window, "Petite sun separates, and Indianhead fabric." Behind the mannequins are two large posters of Native Americans.
Homemakers Hardware and Appliance Co. Window
June 15, 1949
Homemakers Hardware and Appliance Company, 123 West Mifflin Street, display window featuring Norge washing machines.
Manchester's, Inc., Tipperary Fabric Window Display
May 25, 1950
Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, fabric display with Vogue patterns, one mannequin, and draped fabrics, "Tipperary, a completely washable soap'n water fabric." Window #3.
WooDick Corporation Display
Display of child's folding desk made by WooDick Corporation, in Madison Association of Commerce window.
