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Risley Brothers Building

Date: 1944
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...
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J.C. Penney Co. Storefront

Date: 1940
Description: The storefront of the J.C. Penney store, 127 Third Street. There are summer clothes, hats, and shoes for men and women in the display windows. There is a h...
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Men Loading Washing Machine

Date: 09 08 1937
Description: Two employees of the Sibley, Lindsay, and Curr Company (Sibley's) department store load a washing machine from a loading dock onto the bed of an Internatio...
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Main Street

Date: 1921
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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Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: View down Main Street. A millinery, meat market, bakery, hotel and shoe store are on the left. An osteopath, a hardware store, a barber shop, a small resta...
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Main Street

Date: 1911
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left is the Hotel Lewis, with a columned porch and awnings above the second-story windows. Further down the street ...
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Business Block

Date: 1913
Description: View from unpaved road of the Cohen Bros Dept. Store, D.N. Farris storefront, and Park Hotel. A soda fountain in another building is on the right. A team o...
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Razing of Manchester's Department Store

Date: 06 1985
Description: View from Wisconsin Avenue towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store at 14 E. Mifflin Street. The foundation is exposed. A man wearing a hardhat ...
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F.W. Woolworth

Date: 1973
Description: View across Wisconsin Avenue, on the corner of West Mifflin Street, towards F.W. Woolworth's. A marble facade frames the show window on the corner. An elec...

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