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| Date: | 11 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Helen Kowalke, an employe of Forbes-Meagher Music Company, tries out the harp on display at the store. |
| Date: | 11 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Ben Rhodes, manager of Forbes-Meagher Music Company's instrument department, poses with the harp on display at the store. |
| Date: | 01 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Montgomery Ward Company phonograph record department, 215 State Street. |
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| Description: | Two men are standing indoors, one man on the left and the other on the right. In the center is a vintage hand crank phonograph. A sign hanging on the back ... |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customer Anne Davis playing a vinyl record in a listening booth before making a decision to purchase it. |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customers Judy Schwandner and May Nicolaus enjoy hearing a record playing on a turntable in the store's listening booth. |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customer Nancy Thomsen purchasing a vinyl record. Other 33rpm records are displayed along the back wall and counter top, and 45s are sitting inside a glass... |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Customer John Salzer (left) looking over an album with George Dasson. Other 33rpm vinyl records are displayed on the wall, and framed photographs of musica... |
| Date: | 01 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Record shop employee Charles Lunde (right) explaining the merits of Charlie Ventura's septet to customer Richard Mallum, who is admiring the cover of the v... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View across State Street towards the right half of the Joseph Hackel Building and the Stanley Hanks Building. The ground floor of the Joseph Hackel Buildin... |
| Date: | 01 1963 |
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| Description: | View from street of businesses along West Main Street, long after the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street, when the top two stories were ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of a music shop with phonographs, violins, phonograph records displayed on the wall, and wax cylinders lining a shelf. |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: optometrist (closed), Neff's Beauty Salon, Wisconsin Blue ... |
| Date: | 04 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of street scene of a run on the First National Bank. The sidewalk is crowded with people, spilling into the street. A horse-drawn buggy is dr... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View down retail street. Shops and parked cars are on either side. On the side of a shop on the left there is a hand-painted advertisement for the selectio... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin Music Company of Madison, Wisconsin, with two elevated views of the Cable Company's Chicago and St. Charles piano and organ fac... |
| Date: | 08 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Record Shop, 105 West Mifflin Street, display window featuring Joet Robinson, MGM starlet, and her phonograph records, as well as adve... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Badger Talking Machine Shop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "exclusive dealers in Victrolas, Records, and Supplies," with a center oval medallio... |
| Date: | 08 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Refurbished store fronts along West Main Street at the corner of South Carroll Street. The building occupied by Walk-Over Shoe Store and Forbes-Meagher Mus... |
| Date: | 07 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Businesses along West Main Street during the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street, after the top one and two stories have been removed. Bu... |
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