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| Date: | 07 14 1933 |
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| Description: | Kessenich display window featuring CAMP physiological / surgical supports made by S.N. Camp & Co. Corset Department. Reflected in the window (reversed) are... |
| Date: | 03 09 1934 |
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| Description: | Hill's Dry Goods Store, corset department. There are tables piled with various styles of foundation garments. |
| Date: | 11 01 1933 |
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| Description: | Burdick and Murray display window showing "Wiff 'n' Pouff Sensation" corsets. "Smartens Young Lines." 15-19 E. Main Street. |
| Date: | 09 30 1930 |
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| Description: | Manchester display window featuring one woman mannequin, and one woman bust mannequin, dressed in lingerie. |
| Date: | 09 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Harry S. Manchester, Inc., at 2 East Mifflin Street. Women's lingerie is on display in the window. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Farmall F-20 tractor with attached mower and sun shade on a ramp outside a McCormick-Deering farm equipment dealership. Original caption reads: "The Farmer... |
| Date: | 03 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Display window at H.S. Manchester Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, showing Perma-Lift brassieres and girdles, "The Lift That Never Lets You Down," "No Bones Ab... |
| Date: | 01 15 1951 |
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| Description: | Manchesters Playtex Fab-lined Girdle display window, taken for International Latex Corporation. |
| Date: | 04 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Manchester's Department Store, 2 East Mifflin Street, display window featuring Playtex girdles, and a mannequin wearing a robe. |
| Date: | 11 12 1952 |
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| Description: | "Tres Secrete" inflatable bra and lingerie display in Manchester's, Inc., window display with two mannequins. A sign in the center of the window reads: "In... |
| Date: | 03 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Gossard corsets, girdles and bras display in Manchester's, Inc., store window No. 3, 2 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 06 05 1956 |
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| Description: | H.S. Manchester's, Incorporated, 2 East Mifflin Street, window display featuring "Playtex Panty Briefs" and mannequin, with decorated tube packaging for br... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr... |
| Date: | 11 12 1938 |
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| Description: | Workers wearing aprons are plucking, cleaning, and dressing chickens at the Schauls Live Poultry Farm. One man is looking at a chicken over an open McCormi... |
| Date: | 04 25 1970 |
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| Description: | Bikers wash on the bank of Rowan Creek near York Farm during the Sound Storm music festival. One of the bikers is naked from the waist down and wearing a d... |
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| Description: | Five women circus performers in full costume pose behind a clothesline upon which bras, underwear, gloves and socks hang to dry. |
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| Description: | Advertisement for William Wilson, Medical Electrician that features a Greek godlike figure wearing various electrical medical garments and holding a placar... |
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| Description: | A line drawing of a partially-dressed woman wearing a bustle and corset standing before a full-length mirror. Another, fully-dressed woman is standing on t... |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football fullback Alan Ameche stands on a scale and points to his 210-pound weight as coach Ivan Williamson looks on. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | The heaviest member of the University of Wisconsin football team, tackle Jerry Cvengros from Ironwood, Michigan, tips the scale at 261 pounds. |
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