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Corset Window

Date: 07 14 1933
Description: Kessenich display window featuring CAMP physiological / surgical supports made by S.N. Camp & Co. Corset Department. Reflected in the window (reversed) are...
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Burdick and Murray Display Window

Date: 11 01 1933
Description: Burdick and Murray display window showing "Wiff 'n' Pouff Sensation" corsets. "Smartens Young Lines." 15-19 E. Main Street.
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Manchester Lingerie Display Window

Date: 09 30 1930
Description: Manchester display window featuring one woman mannequin, and one woman bust mannequin, dressed in lingerie.
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Manchester's, Inc., Women's Lingerie Window Display

Date: 09 19 1928
Description: Harry S. Manchester, Inc., at 2 East Mifflin Street. Women's lingerie is on display in the window.
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Farmall F-20 Tractor in front of International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1938
Description: Farmall F-20 tractor with attached mower and sun shade on a ramp outside a McCormick-Deering farm equipment dealership. Original caption reads: "The Farmer...
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H.S. Manchester Inc., Bra & Girdle Display Window

Date: 03 30 1949
Description: Display window at H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, showing Perma-Lift brassieres and girdles, "The Lift That Never Lets You Down," "No Bones Ab...
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Playtex Girdle Display Window

Date: 01 15 1951
Description: Manchesters Playtex Fab-lined Girdle display window, taken for International Latex Corporation.
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Playtex Girdle Display Window

Date: 04 03 1952
Description: Manchester's Department Store, 2 East Mifflin Street, display window featuring Playtex girdles, and a mannequin wearing a robe.
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Manchester's, Inc., "Tres Secrete" Bra Window Display

Date: 11 12 1952
Description: "Tres Secrete" inflatable bra and lingerie display in Manchester's, Inc., window display with two mannequins. A sign in the center of the window reads: "In...
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Manchester's, Inc., Corset Window Display

Date: 03 08 1953
Description: Gossard corsets, girdles and bras display in Manchester's, Inc., store window No. 3, 2 East Mifflin Street.
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Manchester's, Incorporated, Playtex Window Display

Date: 06 05 1956
Description: H.S. Manchester's, Incorporated, 2 East Mifflin Street, window display featuring "Playtex Panty Briefs" and mannequin, with decorated tube packaging for br...
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Bikers Wash in Rowan Creek

Date: 04 25 1970
Description: Bikers wash on the bank of Rowan Creek near York Farm during the Sound Storm music festival. One of the bikers is naked from the waist down and wearing a d...
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Circus Performers with Laundry

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Description: Five women circus performers in full costume pose behind a clothesline upon which bras, underwear, gloves and socks hang to dry.
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Ernestine Bishop with Children

Date: 07 1965
Description: A woman and two children, photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"Mrs. Ernestine Bishop, another most courageous freedom worker. Last summer she walk...

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War Correspondent and Two Soldiers

Date: 12 05 1943
Description: Robert Doyle poses in his undershorts between Private Gerald Minkin of Ironwood, Michigan (left) and Private First Class Samuel "Slim" Lanham of Louisville...
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Scene Still for "Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated scene still for the film "Foreign Correspondent." Pedestrians are walking with umbrellas down the sidewalk in the rain. On the street people are r...
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44th General Hospital Unit At Camp McCoy

Date: 06 15 1961
Description: Pfc. Richard Sroda, a public information specialist with the 32nd Division, was the photographer and Sp4 David Gordon, public information specialist for th...
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Doc Copeland Fishing

Date: 1907
Description: Ernest Copeland standing on a rock while fishing near Gordon Dam. He is wearing pajamas and a hat.
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Fred Klein Building and Hubert Schmitz Boarding House

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards two buildings. The building on the left is the Fred Klein Building. The upper two floors are apartments. The ground floor ...

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