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Karstens, Center Island Window

Date: 05 02 1944
Description: F.W. Karstens Company, 24 North Carroll Street, center display window featuring neckwear.
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College Shop

Date: 06 01 1927
Description: Slightly elevated view of the interior of the College Shop. Two male clerks are behind the counter of the shop at 720 State Street.
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Closet Storage Show Window

Date: 10 09 1952
Description: Show window at Hill's Store, 202 State Street, featuring a display of EZ-DO and Princess House Space Savers garment bags, shoe bags, hat boxes and storage ...
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South Central Florist Association Aids Cancer Crusade

Date: 04 06 1959
Description: Florists of the South Central Florists' Association will create floral arrangements in the windows of the Wolff, Kubly and Hirsig store. These arrangements...
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Woman at Microphone

Date: 02 28 1941
Description: Manchester style show. In the background is a "Baby Shop" sign.
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Gimbels-Schusters Department Store Pop-Concert-Fashion Show

Date: 08 19 1965
Description: The Beatle-haired drummer from the DuPont dance group band, playing at a pop-concert-fashion show hosted by the Gimbels-Schusters department store, outside...
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Larry Borenstein Selling Women's Shoes

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, answering a woman's questions at the Borenstein Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. She is sitting on a couc...
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Shoe Stockroom at Borenstein Dry Goods Store

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, standing in a narrow aisle of the shoe stockroom at Borenstein's Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue.
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Portrait of Larry Borenstein

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Quarter-length portrait of shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, who worked in the family department store, Borenstein's Dry Goods Store, located in the Atwood ...
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
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...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: A man holding a paper-wrapped package under his arm pauses while shopping to watch the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater on the Madison C...
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Observers of the Building Demolition on Capitol Square

Date: 09 26 1957
Description: Two busy Madison lawyers pause to watch the demolition of buildings on Madison's Capitol Square to be replaced with a new building to house a J. C. Penney ...

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