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Filter: Creator Name of McVicar, Angus B., 1903-1964
| Date: | 06 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street, window display featuring Royal typewriters and an adding machine. The name was later changed to Stemp Type... |
| Date: | 06 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street, window display featuring Royal Typewriters. The name was later changed to Stemp Typewriter Company. |
| Date: | 06 05 1931 |
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| Description: | RKO parade float, with people on the float and ushers standing beside, advertising "cool and comfortable as a summer vacation" for the Orpheum and Capitol ... |
| Date: | 05 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Man standing beside advertising signs for Wallace Beery in "The Secret Six — The answer to gang rule in America." Taken in front of the Strand Theatre. |
| Date: | 05 09 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the front of the Strand Theatre, showing people in line to enter. There is a car with a sign on the roof that is advertising "Shipmates." 16 E. Mif... |
| Date: | 05 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Montgomery Ward window display featuring men's suit fabrics and accessories, and a sign advertising, "Now Custom Made Hand Tailored Men's Suits." The store... |
| Date: | 04 11 1931 |
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| Description: | An ambulance carries signs advertising the film, "Mr. Lemon of Orange" in front of the Strand Theatre at 16 E. Mifflin Street. Also on that block are Barto... |
| Date: | 01 31 1931 |
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| Description: | Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai... |
| Date: | 01 08 1931 |
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| Description: | View towards a man dressed as a woman, with his back turned, standing in front of a group of American Legion men posing in a room at the G.A.R. Hall. The m... |
| Date: | 12 27 1930 |
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| Description: | View across street towards an advertisement for the movie "Third Alarm" on the side of a fire wagon with two fire fighters being pulled by horses in front ... |
| Date: | 12 31 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company building, 16 S. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 11 09 1930 |
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| Description: | Two Oscar Mayer delivery trucks made by Diamond T waiting at a loading dock. One of the trucks has a sign for "German Wieners." There is a stack of barrels... |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | World's largest Goodyear tire in front of RKO Orpheum theater, 216 State Street, with six people viewing the tire. One man is on top of the tire holding a ... |
| Date: | 11 09 1930 |
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| Description: | Profile view of the right side of an Oscar Mayer bacon truck made by Diamond T parked near a building. The sign on the back of the truck reads: "Oscar Maye... |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Display advertising "Monte Carlo" movie featuring roulette wheel in Capitol lobby? A man is standing behind a table on the right. |
| Date: | 10 27 1930 |
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| Description: | F&W Grand store window, located at 15 W. Main Street, displays 33 rpm records, jewelry, and advertising for Amos n' Andy in the film "Check and Double Chec... |
| Date: | 10 28 1930 |
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| Description: | The Capitol Theatre marquee, 209 State Street, advertises Amos 'n Andy in "Check and Double Check" flanked by the Lurose' women's clothing store, 205 State... |
| Date: | 09 26 1930 |
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| Description: | View from intersection towards the Madison Battery & Service Co. building at 250 State Street. The building is on the corner of West Johnson & North Henry ... |
| Date: | 10 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Royal Tailors, Inc. display window located at 12 East Mifflin Street, with neon advertising. |
| Date: | 09 27 1930 |
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| Description: | Two men and two boys are standing besides a truck parked on North Pinckney Street which has large signs advertising Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in the ... |
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