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Taylor's Super Service Gas Station

Date: 01 06 1939
Description: View from street towards two men filling the gas tanks of a car and truck at Jack D. Taylor's Super Service Station, 751-753 Williamson Street. This Art De...
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Valentine Flower Window Display

Date: 02 12 1941
Description: Valentine floral display window at University Floral Company, 747 University Avenue. Owned by Dea McVicar and his son Angus McVicar.
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Smart Motor Company

Date: 02 17 1937
Description: The Smart Motor Company dealership located at 437 West Gilman Street, designed by Harry Alford. Signs in the show windows read: "Willys" and "Hupmobile."
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Levitan Building

Date: 07 27 1940
Description: The Art Deco, Egyptian-influenced facade of the Levitan Building at 15, 17, & 19 West Main Street, including the F&W Grand 5&10 cent store, Rennebohm Drugs...
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Fitzpatrick Lumber Company Houses

Date: 11 23 1938
Description: A row of houses at 826, 830, 834 & 838 North Fair Oaks Avenue built by the Fitzpatrick Lumber Company in what was the Town of Blooming Grove, now near East...
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Pi Lambda Phi Party Group

Date: 01 05 1946
Description: Group portrait of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity party group at the Park Hotel.
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St. James Class Play

Date: 05 03 1942
Description: Group portrait of play cast on stage for St. James Catholic School, 1204 St. James Court.
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St. James Class Play

Date: 05 03 1942
Description: Group portrait of play cast, St. James Catholic School, 1204 St. James Court.
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Manchester's, Inc., "Sachet" Display

Date: 04 08 1941
Description: Manchester's, Inc., 2-6 East Mifflin Street, displays "Sachet" hosiery and other accessories.
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Manchester's, Inc., Baby Shop

Date: 04 08 1941
Description: The Baby Shop at Harry S. Manchester's, Incorporated, 2-6 East Mifflin Street, with clothes and changing table.
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Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Co. Display

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Co. booth at the East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival, featuring a winter display of bears eating ice cream and a dai...
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Oscar Mayer Coolerator Booth

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Coolerator refrigerator booth at the East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival. The Oscar Mayer Coolerator Store was located at 401-405 State Stre...
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Anchor Building

Date: 10 10 1941
Description: Anchor Savings and Loan Association, 2 South Carroll Street. The Loraine Hotel at 119-125 West Washington Avenue, is seen behind the Anchor building.
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R.F. Lease & Co. Trucks and Equipment

Date: 11 09 1941
Description: R.F. Lease and Co., 209 East Main Street, company truck, with eleven men standing beside their floor sanders. Other business in view, Madison School Supply...
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R.F. Lease Trucks and Equipment

Date: 11 09 1941
Description: R.F. Lease and Co., 209 East Main Street, floor sanding company trucks, with eleven men standing beside their floor sanders. Other businesses in view: Madi...
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Telephone Operators Party

Date: 12 20 1941
Description: Group portrait of telephone operators at a party.
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Blackfriars Production of "You Can't Take It With You"

Date: 05 26 1941
Description: Blackfriars Guild theater group cast on stage for "You Can't Take It With You."
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Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Co. Booth

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Left hand section of Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Company booth at East Side Business Men's Association Fall Festival, featuring a winter landscape with three b...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity

Date: 08 19 1941
Description: Group portrait of men and women taken outdoors at 225 Lake Lawn Place, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, taken for Jack McEhlone. Two men are wearing University ...
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Accident Scene at Femrites' Corner

Date: 1941
Description: Accident scene at Femrites' Corner, taken from Highway 12 & 18 looking west past Highway 51 (Monona Drive).

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