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| Description: | A line of people waiting to look through a large telescope at Manchester's Department Store at Christmas. |
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| Description: | Santa Claus talks on a telephone at a Christmas display at Manchester's Department Store. |
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| Description: | Santa Claus talks on a telephone seated in a Christmas display in Manchester's Department Store. |
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| Description: | Santa Claus standing and waving in a Christmas display at Manchester's Department Store. |
| Date: | 04 03 1947 |
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| Description: | Students Coleman Jackson, Joe Dean, and Dick Sexton are shown meeting with the Easter Bunny that has been entertaining children in a leading department sto... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of the Hudson Bay Company department store in Alberta, Canada, celebrating the centennial anniversary of the reaper's invention. |
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| Description: | Back, front, and inside front cover of the menu from The Restaurant at Baron's department store, with "A Historical Map of Madison" focusing on the isthmus... |
| Date: | 12 21 1963 |
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| Description: | Unidentified youngster shown enjoying breakfast with Santa at Manchester's Department Store. |
| Date: | 12 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Madison shoppers fill stores looking for post-Christmas sale bargains. |
| Date: | 12 26 1963 |
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| Description: | Shoppers fill stores looking for post-Christmas sale bargains and returning or exchanging unwanted gifts. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A group of children meeting Santa at Gimbels. Decorated Christmas trees are next to his chair. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson snuggled in bed ready to dream of Christmas toys before visiting the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing on a drum set at the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. On the drum face is an image of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing cowboys with plastic tommy guns at Toyland, the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Wearing helmets, Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing with a football in the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. They are in an aisle displaying rocking chairs, ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Jo Clark, age 3, is sitting on a table in a department store as clerk Frances Sternberger (left) is tying the chin strap of a new Easter hat. Jo's mother, ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Arthur Dier smiles approval as his fiancee, Evelyn Schaefer, asks his opinion of a bright flowery Easter hat at a Madison store. Ms. Schaefer, in the foreg... |
| Date: | 10 26 1957 |
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| Description: | "Free punki'ns" are being given to children by the Madison Sears store and the Y Men's Club of the YMCA. The pumpkins are to be carved and entered in a con... |
| Date: | 11 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Christmas shoppers crowd the Capitol Square on the day after Thanksgiving Day. Women shoppers are seen at the corner of State Street, Carroll Street and W.... |
| Date: | 02 19 1959 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Governor Philleo Nash, center, cutting the ribbon to open the new million dollar J.C. Penney Co. department store located on the Capitol Square ... |
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