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Fireworks Stand

Date: 07 1927
Description: Three boys purchase fireworks from the proprietor of a National Fireworks tent near Ogden Avenue. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Ag...
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New World Life Insurance Agents

Date: 10 05 1945
Description: New World Life Insurance Company, 110 East Main Street, with ten male agents.
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New World Life Insurance Agents

Date: 10 05 1945
Description: Group portrait of six Madison agents of the New World Life Insurance Company. One man is sitting at the desk, and five men are standing around him, at 110 ...
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Farm Bureau Group

Date: 05 11 1945
Description: Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance group of sixteen men sitting at a luncheon table in the Wingra Room of the Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street.
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Winkler Stoker Sales Meeting

Date: 06 30 1944
Description: Group portrait of Winkler Automatic Furnace Stoker Company salesmen meeting at Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street.
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Woman Demonstrating Pres Kloth

Date: 04 15 1942
Description: Woman holding iron and demonstrating the Pres Kloth (a pressing cloth) in Manchester's Department store, 2-6 East Mifflin Street.
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Furniture Display Room

Date: 12 24 1940
Description: Lowell Frautschi showing a couple a dining room table in the furniture display room at Frautschi's Incorporated, 219 King Street.
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Furniture Display Room

Date: 12 24 1940
Description: Lowell Frautschi displaying fabric samples to a couple sitting on living room furniture at Frautschi's, Incorporated, 219 King Street.
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Maytag Ironer Demonstration

Date: 10 20 1937
Description: Sales woman demonstrating a Maytag Ironer (mangle) to a customer in the Burdick & Murray Department Store, located at 26-30 N. Carroll Street.
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Maytag Washing Machines and Ironers

Date: 10 20 1937
Description: Sales woman demonstrating a Maytag washing machine to a customer. In the foreground are Maytag Ironers (mangles) at Burdick & Murray, 26-30 N. Carroll Stre...
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Woman at Typewriter

Date: 04 05 1937
Description: A man watching as a woman demonstrates typing on an L.C. Smith typewriter at Jones Typewriter Co., 506 State Street.
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Woodman's Insurance Meeting

Date: 08 13 1936
Description: Group portrait of Woodman's Casualty Insurance salesmen's meeting in the Venetian Room of the Loraine Hotel, 119-125 W. Washington Avenue.
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Mautz Paint Company Demonstration

Date: 12 12 1935
Description: Mautz Paint Company demonstration in State Street store, located at 118 State Street.
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Kayser Motors Employees

Date: 06 21 1935
Description: Group portrait of Kayser Motors salesmen and mechanics, 701 E Washington Street.
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"Madame White" Cosmetics Car and Employees

Date: 08 17 1934
Description: Group portrait of "Madame White" cosmetics sales staff with car and signage for an event at the Capitol Theatre with Richard Barthelmess in "Midnight Alibi...
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Baron Brothers Basement Shoe Department

Date: 03 19 1934
Description: Baron Brothers Department Store, 12-18 W. Mifflin Street, basement shoe department with four salesmen and a large number of women customers.
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Manchester's Party

Date: 10 31 1932
Description: Manchester employees sitting at tables at the Chanticleer celebrating the 12th anniversary of the Harry Manchester Inc. store.
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Water Softener Demonstration

Date: 09 29 1931
Description: C.E. Bates Plumbing Company salesman showing the Trupar water softener to a customer, 1425 Regent Street.
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Mitchell Sales Company Employees

Date: 04 05 1930
Description: Mitchell Sales Company sales force posing in front of the store, 204 East Main Street. Kitchen ranges are on display in the windows.
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Madison Roofing Company Booth

Date: 08 22 1929
Description: A man standing in the Madison Roofing Company booth at the Dane County Fair displaying various samples of roofing materials.

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