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Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store

Date: 05 05 1934
Description: Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Co. hardware store, located at 17 South Pinckney Street. There is a lighted "TOYS" sign above the second floor display window. The vie...
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Montgomery Ward Store

Date: 05 05 1934
Description: Montgomery Ward & Co. at 102 North Hamilton Street at the corner of North Pinckney and East Mifflin Streets.
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Emporium Department Store

Date: 01 21 1934
Description: Emporium Department Store, 15-17 N. Pinckney, also showing Rennebohm Drug Store #6 on the left and Joe Tittle and Sons Meats on the right. The building occ...
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Central High School Entrance

Date: 12 09 1933
Description: View of the Central High School entrance arch at 214 Wisconsin Avenue. Ivy is growing around the entrance, and is obscuring the carved letters of "High Sch...
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Men in front of Grand Army Hall

Date: 10 13 1933
Description: Six men with a flag in front of Grand Army Hall, 118 Monona Avenue, (Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard). Taken as publicity for the motion picture "Forgott...
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Frank's Restaurant

Date: 10 19 1933
Description: Frank's Restaurant, 821 University Avenue, signage reads: "Regular Meals and Plate Lunches," "Beer on tap, 5 cents" and National Recovery Administration si...
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DeForest State Bank

Date: 09 12 1933
Description: A group of people are gathering in front of the DeForest State Bank, site of a robbery.
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Mayor Law and Chic Sale

Date: 07 20 1933
Description: Mayor James R. Law presenting the keys of the city to Chic Sale, former Dane County land owner and character impersonator performing at the Orpheum Theater...
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Orpheum Theater

Date: 08 06 1933
Description: "Gold Diggers of 1933" on Orpheum Theater marquee, 216 State Street. The entrance to Weber's Restaurant is on the left side of the theater.
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Volunteers of America Church & Dormitory

Date: 07 14 1933
Description: Volunteers of America church and dormitory, 412 S. Baldwin Street.
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Madison Steam Dye Works

Date: 06 16 1933
Description: Madison Steam Dye Works, 116 S. Pinckney Street.
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Jenny Justo Saying Goodbye to Her Dog

Date: 05 15 1933
Description: Jenny Justo, 921 Spring Street, saying goodbye to her dog before leaving for a year in the Milwaukee jail.
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Presenting Trophy to Richard H. Puelicher

Date: 09 16 1932
Description: Westinghouse representive, Charles Doctal, presenting trophy to Richard H. Puelicher, D S Stophlet salesman for winning a 60 day refrigerator sales contest...
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Jubilee Singers

Date: 09 09 1932
Description: Six female Jubilee Singers from Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute, Prentiss, Mississippi, with their director E.M. Hall.
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Children's Summer Handcrafts Display

Date: 08 08 1932
Description: Children's summer handcrafts display in Baron Brothers Inc. window, 12-18 W. Mifflin Street.
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General "Doughnut" Tires

Date: 04 23 1932
Description: General "Doughnut" tires on Ford in front of Monona Tire Co., 128 S. Pinckney Street. There is a sign for the Mueller Insurance Agency on the left at 126 S...
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Two Police Officers

Date: 04 21 1932
Description: Portrait of Police Officer Earl V. Bonner, the shortest man on the Madison police force, who joined in 1928, and Romain W. York Jr., the tallest man on the...
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Commercial National Bank

Date: 03 10 1932
Description: Corner entrance to the classically-columned Commercial National Bank, 102 State Street.
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Apatment House, 148 E. Gorham Street

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Three-story apartment house, 148 E. Gorham Street, with snow on the ground.
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Katherine Verikios

Date: 11 21 1931
Description: Katherine Verikios, 10, 1135 E. Mifflin Street, wearing fur-trimmed coat. She won the Madison Label Saving contest and received a new Chevrolet.

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