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| Date: | 12 27 1960 |
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| Description: | Post-Christmas shoppers crowd downtown Madison stores as they return or exchange unwanted Christmas gifts. |
| Date: | 11 15 1960 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 1998 |
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| Description: | A man is selling produce to customers on the opening day of the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the ba... |
| Date: | 04 1998 |
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| Description: | Customers shopping for plants on the opening day of the Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 02 11 1959 |
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| Description: | Large crowd of shoppers appears on Madison's State Street due to the influx of 5,800 teachers attending the Southern Wisconsin Education Association teache... |
| Date: | 04 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Three women standing outdoors on a sidewalk viewing a dress on a mannequin in the foreground inside a show window on Capitol Square. They are (L-R): Linda ... |
| Date: | 07 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kessenich's Silk Department, 201 State Street. Two women are standing on either side of a counter in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 07 18 1998 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from State and Broom Streets of shoppers on State Street during the Maxwell Street Days sale. |
| Date: | 12 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Man demonstrating Hankscraft egg cooker to a female customer in Harloff-Loprich Electric Company, 506 State Street. |
| Date: | 03 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, 2-12 East Mifflin Street, drapery department with a female clerk showing Koylon Foam for cushions to a young male customer. |
| Date: | 11 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Christmas shoppers crowd the Capitol Square on the day after Thanksgiving Day. Women shoppers are seen at the corner of State Street, Carroll Street and W.... |
| Date: | 08 14 1989 |
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| Description: | A man is holding up a sweater on a hangar over a clothing rack. in the foreground a woman is facing him and holding up another shirt. Caption reads: "Terry... |
| Date: | 11 05 1980 |
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| Description: | View down table that is packed with books towards people standing on either side examining the titles. Caption reads: "READER'S DELIGHT — Prospective buyer... |
| 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: | 05 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, assisting a customer at Borenstein's Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. A young man, perhaps a sales assist... |
| Date: | 05 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Shoe salesman, Larry Borenstein, answering a woman's questions at the Borenstein Dry Goods Store located at 1980-81 Atwood Avenue. She is sitting on a couc... |
| Date: | 04 12 1957 |
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| Description: | Margee Palldett, of 310 Ottawa Trail and a senior at West High School, shopping for her own clothes. |
| 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: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Arthur Dier smiles approval as his fiancee, Evelyn Schaefer, asks his opinion of a bright flowery Easter hat at a Madison store. Ms. Schaefer, in the foreg... |
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