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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of the Sears-Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. The portion of East Washington in front of the store is full of parked automobiles. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Sears-Roebuck department store on East Washington Avenue and its surrounding parking lots. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of Yost-Kessinich Department Store at 201 State Street. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin street looking west, with the Gimbels sign on the building in the background. Text on postcard reads: "Wisconsin St. & Railway Exchange Bldg., Mi... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians in shopping district. Cars are parked and a streetcar is coming down the street. |
| Date: | 11 28 1952 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the nearly-full automated parking ramp at H.S. Manchester's Department Store. Several cars can be seen driving along Wisconsin A... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 paraded on Wisconsin Avenue to draw attention to the fact that employees of the Packer Packing ... |
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| Description: | Street scene with parked and moving vehicles. Buildings are along the left side and a line of trees and lampposts is along the right. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr... |
| Date: | 11 29 1951 |
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| Description: | The first commercial pigeon hole parking unit in the world was built for the Harry S. Manchester department store, behind Manchesters at the corner of Wisc... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from street of commercial area with storefronts and pedestrians. Many cars are parked on both sides of the street. Visible storefront signs read, "S &... |
| Date: | 08 01 1952 |
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| Description: | A group of Davenport, Iowa, city officials and business leaders visited Madison to study the city's unique pigeon-hole parking unit at the Harry S. Manches... |
| Date: | 10 01 1953 |
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| Description: | The parking lot is filled with vehicles as the Madison East Shopping Center grand opening draws thousands of people to view the twelve-store shopping cente... |
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| Description: | View of a street in the business district featuring automobiles, a street car, and pedestrians near the German National Bank (organized in 1888) on the rig... |
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| Description: | View of street in the business district featuring pedestrians, automobiles, and storefronts. The Crawford County Courthouse clock tower, designed by archit... |
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| Description: | View of the business district looking toward North Third Street. W.H. Zinn Co. Department Store, an Italianate building constructed in 1837, stands on the ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | An International CO-192 truck leads a 25-piece circus parade through downtown streets. The parade originated at Circus World Museum in Baraboo. Additional ... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 100 block of State Street. Businesses include: Yost's, Singer, the Capitol Theatre (showing "Africa: Texa... |
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| Description: | View of the downtown business section crowded with automobiles and pedestrians. A department store on the right is labeled, "Wigwam Block 1900." |
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| Description: | View down a street featuring stores and small businesses with signs written in Spanish. On the left corner, Eduardo Cruz' department store can be seen, bui... |
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