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Mautz Paint Department

Date: 01 17 1935
Description: A sales clerk assists a customer in the Mautz paint department at Price Hardware Store, 626 S. Park Street.
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Nilles Hardware and Paints Co.

Date: 07 03 1929
Description: Nilles Hardware and Paints Co., 2330 Atwood Avenue, interior.
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International Model 94 Truck

Date: 1924
Description: Man sitting in an International model 94 truck owned by Shapleigh Hardware. The truck is hitched to a canvas covered trailer, and is parked on a wet cobble...
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International Model D-15 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: International model D-15 truck with special body parked outside the "Community Hardware" store. The truck was owned by the Union Fork and Hoe Company of Co...
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Men Posing Outside Local Businesses

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Description: Seventeen men and boys are posing in front of the storefronts on a sidewalk on the north side of Main Street, between First and Second Streets, including O...
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Richard Ela Company

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: Interior of Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street, showing a sales counter with a large display of tools. Three clerks and one customer are standing n...
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Richard Ela Company

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: Interior of Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street, showing a sales counter with a large display of tools and three clerks and one customer. Alternate ...
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Harvester-Thresher Delivery

Date: 05 17 1927
Description: Mr. Dennison (left), manager of the Lucas Hardware Company, an International Harvester dealership, stands with another man in front of six assembled harves...
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Main Street

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Description: View across unpaved street of a row of stores. On the corner is the Cashton Hardware Company. A horse and wagon is parked at the curb of H. B. Bohl City Me...
Print

August Kroll Letterhead

Date: 1888
Description: Letterhead of August Kroll of Leopolis, Wisconsin, dealer in hardware, stoves, and tinware, with an image of the interior of a store and customers being he...
Print

Buchanan & Griffin Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Buchanan & Griffin, of Arkansaw, Wisconsin, dealers in "Shelf and Heavy Hardware." Features an interior view of a clerk waiting on a customer...
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street. The hardware store is on the corner on the left, the shoemaker shop is on the right, and the offices of "The Journal" are further do...
Book or Pamphlet

Emerson Catalog Cover

Date: 1900
Description: Catalog cover reads: "The Emerson Product, A Book of the Shop." Features three color illustrations, with, top to bottom: the Emerson factory; a street view...
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New Store Opens Today

Date: 05 17 1957
Description: Four officials of the new Brookwood Hardware House pose proudly in the their new building which will open today at 2310 University Avenue. Standing around ...
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Interior of Hardware Store and Post Office

Date: 1911
Description: An unknown man and Jerome Francis Franklin, Sr. (right) pose in the back room office of the Franklin Hardware Company and Eland Post Office. On the left ar...
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New Automobile Supply Store in Madison

Date: 02 25 1959
Description: The new Midwest Tire and Auto Store in the Madison East Shopping Center. The store manager, Richard Luedtke, is shown in the new store.
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Harvey J. Stangel

Date: 1932
Description: Portrait of Harvey Jacob Stangel (1903-2004), secretary-treasurer of the J.J. Stangel Hardware Company, seated at his desk. His father, Jacob J. Stangel, e...

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