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| Date: | 09 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Display of merchandise in Manchester's East at the new Madison East Shopping Center on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 01 1952 |
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| Description: | A group of Davenport, Iowa, city officials and business leaders visited Madison to study the city's unique pigeon-hole parking unit at the Harry S. Manches... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of Yost-Kessinich Department Store at 201 State Street. |
| Date: | 09 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Jim Hursh of 2415 Norwood Place, a 1952 graduate of West High School, works at his summer job in the shipping room of an unspecified Madison department sto... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Sears-Roebuck department store on East Washington Avenue and its surrounding parking lots. |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | A man holding a paper-wrapped package under his arm pauses while shopping to watch the demolition of the Pioneer block and Madison Theater on the Madison C... |
| Date: | 05 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Style show stage set in the Madison Room, for Pathfinder News Magazine, "What color can do for you," at Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Penney's saleswoman Cora Stern measures fabric at the Madison store. She was named the top saleswoman in the entire Penney's organization. |
| Date: | 09 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Two Madison girls work summer jobs as sales clerks. They are Sue Giese of 4010 Saint Clair Street, left, and Barbara Thalle of 2249 Fox Avenue. They are 19... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | F.W. Woolworth store on East Main Street at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard), showing the old Vilas block (aka Pioneer Building). |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View of the Sears-Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. The portion of East Washington in front of the store is full of parked automobiles. |
| Date: | 10 01 1953 |
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| Description: | The parking lot is filled with vehicles as the Madison East Shopping Center grand opening draws thousands of people to view the twelve-store shopping cente... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? After lunch Doris Ardelt cashes in a book of saving stamps at a downtown department ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Tempted by a display of hats, Doris Ardelt (reflected in the mirror) and Joal Fenn l... |
| Date: | 07 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Five women wearing folded newspaper hats while viewing a large printing press on a tour at Madison Newspapers Inc. The five women from the advertising depa... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | An observer leans on a parking meter on Monona Avenue to watch the demolition of the Madison Theater to make way for a new building to house a J.C. Penney ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Two busy Madison lawyers pause to watch the demolition of buildings on Madison's Capitol Square to be replaced with a new building to house a J. C. Penney ... |
| Date: | 10 26 1957 |
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| Description: | "Free punki'ns" are being given to children by the Madison Sears store and the Y Men's Club of the YMCA. The pumpkins are to be carved and entered in a con... |
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