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| Date: | 08 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester window display featuring clothing for "Women Who Work," with two mannequins and an office desk, Window A. 2-12 E. Mifflin Street. Taken for "Cha... |
| Date: | 08 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Inc., display in Window B featuring clothing for "Women Who Work" with two mannequins and an office desk. |
| Date: | 08 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester window display featuring outdoor clothing for "Women Who Work," with two mannequins, an office desk and a clothing stand with a jacket, hat and ... |
| Date: | 11 29 1951 |
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| Description: | The first commercial pigeon hole parking unit in the world was built for the Harry S. Manchester department store, behind Manchesters at the corner of Wisc... |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Berta Newel serves a customer, Hazel Van Wagene, at her new job as a clerk in the yard goods department of Yost's-Kessenich's store. Mrs. Newell received e... |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Robert Retzlaff (left), manager of the newly opened Ben Franklin variety store at 4204 Monona Drive, posing in the foreground on his store's first day of b... |
| Date: | 11 01 1954 |
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| Description: | A model, and a North Central Airlines stewardess posing at the top of loading stairs leading up to an airliner for Northwest Airlines. The model is posing ... |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing on a drum set at the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store, Toyland. On the drum face is an image of a cowboy riding a bucking bronco. |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing cowboys with plastic tommy guns at Toyland, the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store. |
| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? After lunch Doris Ardelt cashes in a book of saving stamps at a downtown department ... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Tempted by a display of hats, Doris Ardelt (reflected in the mirror) and Joal Fenn l... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | A man holding a paper-wrapped package under his arm pauses while shopping to watch the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater on the Madison C... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two men are watching from a shady spot in Capitol Park as buildings are being demolished to make way for a J.C. Penney store. The photograph was taken with... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | An observer leans on a parking meter on Monona Avenue to watch the demolition of the Madison Theater to make way for a new building to house a J.C. Penney ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two busy Madison lawyers pause to watch the demolition of buildings on Madison's Capitol Square to be replaced with a new building to house a J. C. Penney ... |
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