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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising booklet for the 100,000 Red Carpet Series Scout. The color photograph features a man and woman loading a paper bag into the v... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Several people peer into a storefront window on Capitol Square. This window shopping is perhaps in preparation for the Christmas holiday. |
| Date: | 01 13 1950 |
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| Description: | A new Oldsmobile car on display, probably in the showroom of Pyramid Motor Company Incorporated, 434 West Gilman Street, with a salesman and possible custo... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A publicity photograph of a bespectacled young woman, in a 1960s mod-style dress, examining a jar of Smucker's strawberry preserves in an aisle of a grocer... |
| Date: | 03 11 1956 |
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| Description: | Actor Ernest Borgnine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a butcher in "Marty", reenacted his role for a publicity photograph at a groc... |
| Date: | 12 27 1951 |
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| Description: | A woman shops for meat at the National Food Store in the Shorewood Shopping Center, located at 3244 University Avenue in Shorewood Hills. |
| Date: | 12 27 1951 |
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| Description: | A woman shops for fruits and vegetables at the National Food Store in the Shorewood Shopping Center, located at 3244 University Avenue in Shorewood Hills. |
| Date: | 12 27 1951 |
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| Description: | A woman carries groceries out of the National Food Store in the Shorewood Shopping Center, located at 3244 University Avenue in Shorewood Hills. The Magic ... |
| Date: | 01 23 1953 |
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| Description: | Two checkout counters at the Hi-Lo supermarket at 2038 Jenifer Street, with unidentified clerks and customers. |
| Date: | 07 07 1953 |
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| Description: | The Gray Ladies (volunteers) of the Red Cross do shopping as part of their hospital duties. Mrs. Tracy W. (Anne) Allen is shown in her car, returning from ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street looking west. On these blocks there is a restaurant, rug store, post office, and Farmers State Bank. Automobiles are parked on both s... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Front and side of the two-story drug store on the corner of the street. The store advertises Kodaks, ice cream, soda, cigars, Coca-Cola, Victor records, an... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View down the dirt road of Main Street. On the left, two men are walking on the sidewalk near a store with a hand-painted "closing out sale" sign. On the r... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down retail street. Cars are parked along the curbs. The stores include: Victrola's dealer, a cafe, a recreation parlor, a restaurant, a clothing stor... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street lined with shops. Cars are sporadically parked along the curbs. There is a hotel, the Fritzstoldt tailor, soda fountain and drug stor... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Rows of cars are parked at shops on Main Street. The shop signs (from left to right) are: Doctor R.H. Merrifield Dentist, Clem Meyer — Dry Goods and Grocer... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down dirt street. Two women and three children pose at the intersection. Farther down the street is a post office. There is a bridge at the end of the... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down middle of a retail street. Horses and buggies are parked on either side of the street at the curb. The visible shops signs are: Millinery, WallPa... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down middle of street with many shops. Cars are parked at an angle along both sides of the street. A man rides a bicycle across the intersection. The ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A street in the business section of Brodhead. Cars are parked along the curb near storefronts. In the foreground in the middle of the intersection is a str... |
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