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Manchester's Department Store Photo Studio

Date: 11 29 1944
Description: The photo studio department in Manchester's Department Store. A man is assisting a female customer, while female employees do their work.
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Manchesters Display Poster

Date: 08 23 1940
Description: George Stein, photographer, on the right, and Frank Marx, window decorator, on the left in Manchesters Department Store. They are looking at a 10' tall pos...
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Maytag Washing Machines and Ironers

Date: 10 20 1937
Description: Sales woman demonstrating a Maytag washing machine to a customer. In the foreground are Maytag Ironers (mangles) at Burdick & Murray, 26-30 N. Carroll Stre...
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Santa Claus Mail Box

Date: 11 24
Description: Harry Dimond, general manager of Hills Dry Goods Store & Postmaster Walter Hyland stand on either side of the "Santa Claus Mail Box" placed in Hill's Dry G...
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Hills Department Store Orchestra

Date: 05 26 1934
Description: Group portrait of twelve men who are members of the Hills Department Store orchestra.
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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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Department Store Interior

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Description: Several men and women standing inside a department store next to tables piled with bolts of fabric. The store has a pressed tin ceiling.
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Manchester's Store Interior

Date: 03 12 1947
Description: Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer.
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Manchester's, Inc., Frostman's Woolens Window Display

Date: 03 09 1953
Description: Frostman's woolens window display with two mannequins wearing suits in Manchester's, Inc., corner window #4, taken from East Mifflin Street.
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Manchester's, Inc., Frostman's Woolens Window Display

Date: 03 09 1953
Description: Frostman's woolens window display with two mannequins wearing suits in Manchester's, Inc., corner window #4, taken from Wisconsin Avenue.
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Sears, Roebuck, and Company Profit Sharing

Date: 02 15 1952
Description: Store manager Robert H. Anderson (left) hands out statements for the 1951 profits to six of the Sears, Roebuck, and Company employees who are members of th...
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Dorothy Hatfield

Date: 04 24 1955
Description: Dorothy Hatfield receives a bag of silver dollars as her award from J. Jesse Hyman Sr., President of the Emporium Company, in recognition of her 13 years s...
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Baron Brothers Department Store Remodeling

Date: 09 04 1957
Description: Interior view of Baron Brothers Department Store after remodeling. Joseph Rothschild, a partner of the firm, is standing with Freda Kitson, manager of the ...
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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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Ben Franklin Store Opens on Monona Drive

Date: 05 21 1959
Description: Robert Retzlaff (left), manager of the newly opened Ben Franklin variety store at 4204 Monona Drive, posing in the foreground on his store's first day of b...
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J.C. Penney Store at Westgate

Date: 02 22 1960
Description: The management staff of the new J.C. Penney Company department store gather around specially designed "cool" spotlights for jewelry counters. Left to right...
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Montgomery Ward Open House Square Dance

Date: 09 13 1960
Description: John and Mary Bierlein participate in the square dance at the Westgate Shopping Center as part of a Montgomery Ward open house.
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Montgomery Ward Open House Square Dance

Date: 09 13 1960
Description: Adam and Pauline Statz participate in the square dance at the Westgate Shopping Center as part of a Montgomery Ward open house.
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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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