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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 09 07 1934 |
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| Description: | New and greatly enlarged Emporium Department Store, 15 - 17 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 11 07 1930 |
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| Description: | View of Harry S. Manchester's Inc. department store with display windows and awnings over the entrances, on the corner at 2-6 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 05 20 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the Montgomery Ward Store, on the corner at 102 N. Hamilton Street. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Leona street scene with parked cars in front of Connor's Big Department Store and the Hotel Gordon, photographed sometime during the summer of 1941. Soon... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Pettibone Peabody retail store. A large store with four stories situated on a corner. An automobile is at the curb and pedestrians on the... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | F.W. Woolworth store on East Main Street at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard), showing the old Vilas block (aka Pioneer Building). |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Snowy Milwaukee street with the Edgewood streetcar, pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages. Men and women are passing by a clock on the sidewalk. A Gimbels... |
| Date: | 06 26 1906 |
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| Description: | Group of salespeople standing in front of The Big Store. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians in shopping district. Cars are parked and a streetcar is coming down the street. |
| 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 ... |
| 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 across street toward the front of E. Wigderson's Department Store located on the southwest corner of 5th Avenue and Superior Street. Caption reads: "E... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Goldberg's Department Store. Merchandise is displayed in the storefront windows and an American flag is on the roof of the building. Caption re... |
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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." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of Main Street, looking north. A horse-drawn wagon is traveling north and another is parked on the right. On the left is a store, ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. Designated parking is in the center of the street. On the left is a billboard, and signs in front of the commercial buildings read "... |
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