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Policemen's Ball Window Display
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Kroger Grocery Store window, 3 North Pinckney Street, advertising policemen's ball. A stop and go light has been placed in the window with an officer (mannequin) brandishing a drawn gun standing guard. Includes photographs of the force from 1890 to the 1935 and a washing machine and groceries which will be given as prizes at the ball.
April 25, 1935
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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Kroger Grocery and Bakery Christmas Window Display
November 23, 1932
Kroger Grocery and Bakery, 3 N. Pinckney Street, Christmas window display.
Kroger Grocery and Bakery Christmas Window
November 24, 1932
Kroger Grocery & Bakery, 3 N. Pinckney Street, Christmas window display, featuring a sign that reads: "Christmas Cheer means food this year."
Kroger Grocery Store
May 15, 1934
Kroger Capitol Square Store, at 3 North Pinckney Street. Signs in the second floor windows read: "Dr. Scott, Dentist."
Kroger Grocery & Bakery Interior
November 25, 1932
Kroger Grocery & Bakery, 3 N. Pinckney Street, showing fruit, vegetable, and bakery displays with a clerk behind the counter.
Kroger Grocery Store
September 29, 1932
Kroger Complete Food Market, 3-5 North Pinckney Street, with black vitrolite front, chromium trim, and a modernistic Art Deco sign in chromium-plate letters.
