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New Supermarket Opens in Madison

Date: 02 03 1961
Description: Manager Ralph Johnson, left, and supervisor Richard Brye stand in an aisle of the new A and P supermarket to open on Wingra Drive.
Photograph

New Supermarket Opens in Madison

Date: 02 03 1961
Description: The new A and P supermarket to open on Wingra Drive west of Park street.
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New Third Grade Teacher in Sun Prairie

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: New Sun Prairie third grade teacher Diane Schmitt shops for groceries on her way home from school. The cashier is Carl Conrad and the man in the background...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Stevens Point

Date: 1891
Description: Page 13 of a Sanborn map of Stevens Point.
Photograph

Ice Cream Brings Quick Young Friends

Date: 05 28 1959
Description: Upwards of 700 children were treated to free ice cream and potato chips by Lawrence Rich (right foreground) at the rear of his grocery store at 2633 Commer...
Photograph

Girl Scouts Distribute Election Literature

Date: 10 25 1958
Description: Four Girl Scouts hand out voting literature prepared by the League of Women Voters at the Red Owl store on University Avenue. Dorothy Kittleson takes a pam...
Postcard

Post Office and Store

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "Post Office and Store, Winnebago, Wis." A corner store and post office with three gas pumps, surrounded by trees. A man leans on his ...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1933
Description: Text on front reads: "Main St., Wild Rose, Wis." Two women are sitting on a bench on the sidewalk under the awning of a restaurant, a trailer is parked at ...
Postcard

Tichigan Lake

Date: 08 21 1939
Description: Text on front reads: "Tichigan Lake, Wis." A couple stands next to parked cars in front of the grocery store at Wichmans Resort. On the right is a crowd of...
Postcard

Two Men in Meat Market

Date: 1907
Description: Note on reverse reads: "Windsor Blaisdell of Rhinelander in meat-market of this old store." He is standing behind the wood stove, and the butcher is leanin...
Photograph

Display of Food Products

Date: 09 21 1926
Description: Display of packaged food products for Universal Grocery Company.
Photograph

Universal Grocery Store Interior

Date: 10 13 1927
Description: Universal Grocery Store, 20 West Mifflin Street, interior view from rear.
Photograph

TD-9 — Road Maintenance

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-9 — Road Maintenance." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "TD-9 owned by Standard Paving Co., Tulsa, Okla. Used with B.E. T...
Photograph

Two Trucks Parked at Corner

Date: 02 27 1928
Description: View across intersection of two Minervini Grocery trucks parked facing each other at the corner along a sidewalk in front of a storefront for Hoboken Auto ...
Photograph

Fleet of Delivery Trucks

Date: 12 12 1927
Description: View across street towards a fleet of trucks parked at an angle in front of storefronts. The sign on the trucks reads: "H. Levenson Sons & Co. Inc. • Marke...
Photograph

Grocery Delivery Trucks

Date: 12 12 1927
Description: Fleet of grocery delivery trucks backed up to a building with a sign that reads: "A.W. & H.H. Behrens Wholesale Grocers." One man is sitting in the driver'...
Photograph

Ralph G. Plumb

Date: 1932
Description: Portrait of Ralph Gordon Plumb (1881-1976), president of the Plumb & Nelson Company, seated at his desk. The company was a wholesale grocery business at 71...
Photograph

Grocery Delivery Truck

Date: 05 04 1927
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a grocery delivery truck. The sign on the side of the truck reads: "Ted's Market, 125 Fift...
Photograph

A. Brosniak Delivery Truck

Date: 08 10 1926
Description: Delivery truck parked outdoors. There are no doors on the cab of the truck. The truck bed has a high stake body, and the sign painted on the truck reads: "...
Photograph

Universal Grocery Store Interior

Date: 10 13 1927
Description: Interior view from front of Universal Grocery Store, 20 West Mifflin Street.

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