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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1886
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting...
Book or Pamphlet

Collings Vehicle and Harness Catalog

Date: 11 13 1914
Description: Cover art for Collings Vehicle and Harness Company catalog, comprised of International Harvester logo and black and white photograph of a man on a horse-dr...
Photograph

Nancee Hat Shop

Date: 09 07 1935
Description: Exterior night view of the Nancee Hat Shop at 7 South Pinckney Street featuring hats, purses and an Art Deco entrance.
Photograph

Hill's Department Store

Date: 08 13 1957
Description: Exterior night view night of Hill's Department Store window, 202 State Street, displaying twelve ladies' "fashion tailored" long sleeve shirts. Advertised...
Photograph

E.A. Horn's Drugstore

Date: 1888
Description: Three men stand under the iconic mortar and pestle and striped awnings of E.A. Horn's Drugstore.
Photograph

Watertown Rexall Drug

Date: 1909
Description: Colorful advertising displays line the counters of this turn-of-the- century drugstore, with rows of glass pharmaceutical bottles filling the shelves behin...
Photograph

E.S. Purdy's Drugstore

Date: 
Description: Interior view of the E.S. Purdy Drugstore, including four employees.
Photograph

Kimberly and Elwers Drugstore

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of the Kimberly & Elwers Drugstore. Pharmaceutical bottles line the shelves on the right side.
Photograph

Otto Boberg's Drugstore

Date: 
Description: Interior view of Otto Boberg's Drugstore.
Photograph

Security State Bank Lobby

Date: 03 26 1927
Description: Lobby of the Security State Bank, with depositors waiting in line at teller's windows.
Photograph

Sibyl Hats

Date: 03 14 1956
Description: Night view of the "Mifflin Arcade" with terra cotta facade. Businesses include Silver Dollar Tavern at 117 West Mifflin Street, Sibyl Hats at 119 West Miff...
Photograph

Checking the Biologicals Supply

Date: 02 08 1941
Description: A clerk checks the status of the refrigerated stocks of various biological materials at the D.F. Jones Pharmacy.
Photograph

Making Pills

Date: 07 02 1942
Description: Pharmacist Edward Burke uses a small metal machine to help him make capsules of medicine. A woman is sitting at a table in the background.
Photograph

Grocery Store

Date: 
Description: A woman is being waited on by a man standing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods are stacked on shelves along the wall behind the counter.
Photograph

Civil Works Service Employee gives out a Check

Date: 02 10 1934
Description: A Civil Works Service employee with a check and equivalent in groceries.
Photograph

Charles Palmeri Receives Check

Date: 11 03 1934
Description: Charles Palmeri, aka Pasquale, in an apron, receives a check from James Lewis, Special Deputy representing the street banking commission, to settle his acc...
Photograph

Flipping Pancakes

Date: 06 11 1989
Description: Man flipping pancakes at "farm breakfast" as part of "June is Dairy Month" promotion in Washington County.
Photograph

Counting Pennies at the Bank

Date: 11 09 1955
Description: A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years.
Photograph

Alimony Payment

Date: 09 19 1958
Description: County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband.
Photograph

Portable Fan

Date: 06 14 1956
Description: Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool.

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