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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Record shop employee Charles Lunde (right) explaining the merits of Charlie Ventura's septet to customer Richard Mallum, who is admiring the cover of the v...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer John Salzer (left) looking over an album with George Dasson. Other 33rpm vinyl records are displayed on the wall, and framed photographs of musica...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer Nancy Thomsen purchasing a vinyl record. Other 33rpm records are displayed along the back wall and counter top, and 45s are sitting inside a glass...
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Customers Judy Schwandner and May Nicolaus enjoy hearing a record playing on a turntable in the store's listening booth.
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Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer Anne Davis playing a vinyl record in a listening booth before making a decision to purchase it.
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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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Larry Borenstein Selling Women's Shoes

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, assisting a customer at Borenstein's Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. A young man, perhaps a sales assist...
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Teenagers Wield Power

Date: 04 12 1957
Description: Margee Palldett, of 310 Ottawa Trail and a senior at West High School, shopping for her own clothes.
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Easter Season

Date: 04 20 1957
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, ...
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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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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: School days mean new shoes for Barbara Notstad, who is being fitted at Van's Shoe Store in Cambridge by William Van Valkenberg. Her mother is sitting besid...
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Christmas Shoppers on the Capitol Square

Date: 11 29 1957
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....
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Winnipeg Y-Teens Visit Madison

Date: 04 08 1958
Description: Three women standing outdoors on a sidewalk viewing a dress on a mannequin in the foreground inside a show window on Capitol Square. They are (L-R): Linda ...
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Crowd on State Street

Date: 02 11 1959
Description: Large crowd of shoppers appears on Madison's State Street due to the influx of 5,800 teachers attending the Southern Wisconsin Education Association teache...
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: New Sun Prairie third grade teacher Diane Schmitt shops for groceries on her way home from school. The cashier is Carl Conrad and the man in the background...
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Post-Christmas Shoppers Crowd Downtown Madison Stores

Date: 12 27 1960
Description: Post-Christmas shoppers crowd downtown Madison stores as they return or exchange unwanted Christmas gifts.

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