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Black and white archival photograph. Street view. Building visible across railway tracks. Sign across building reads RIFF’S and below that HUGE SAVINGS NOW. Male and female manikins are visible in the front windows. P.F. Kearney’s shop is to the right.
Black and white archival photograph. Street view. Window signs from left to right read: CLEARANCE SALE OUR PRICES ARE LOWER. Sign on the right side of the building reads: WINDSOR STYLE SHOP LTD. LEADS IN Fashions WHOLESALE & RETAIL. Six people stand on the sidewalk outside the building. Two boys, two girls, and a mother and daughter.
Black and white archival photograph. Four men and two women behind the cash register and counter, and two women in coats in front of the counter. The shelves behind the cash register and stocked full of packages, cans, and bottles of product.
Black and white archival photograph. Street view. Exterior view of E. Paddock & Sons during the Christmas season. Decorative garland and stars can be seen in windows and there are toys displayed in the lower windows.
Colour photograph. Street view. Girl in a winter coat holding a package stands in front of a white car outside of Hermann’s Shoe Shop,.
Black and white archival photograph. Two men in white lab coats stand in Hermann Münch’s shoe shop.
Black and white archival photograph. Street view. Looking west on Main Street, Windsor. Brown Derby, King Edward Theatre, A. Peckford, S. Cohen & Sons, and Purity Cafe visible. Kirk Pomeroy is carrying a birch broom, Daisy Bennett is wearing a light coat, and Mrs. Pomeroy is pushing a stroller.
Black and white archival photograph. Street view. Cohen’s, Main Street looking east towards Great Eastern Oil, and E. Becker’s shop. Women's manikins visible in the windows on the left side of Cohen’s main doors. Light car in the centre of the photo.
Black and white archival photograph. Street view. S. Cohen & Sons and Cohen’s Furniture Department looking west on Main Street, Windsor. Sign above store reads: DRY GOODS; HARDWARE; FURNITURE; S. COHEN & SONS LTD.; WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Female and male manikins visible in the store windows.
Black and white archival photograph. Street view. Exterior view of American Gents Furnishing Store S. Cohen & Sons on Main Street. Sign above right window reads: AMERICAN GENTS FURNISHING STORE [unintelligible] S. COHEN & SONS.
Colour photograph. Inside the Globe Restaurant kitchen. An oven is visible behind a man and woman are in the centre of the photo.
Black and white photograph. Two men standing on steps of the Globe Cafe between two bay windows. Signs on top of building from left to right read: Brookfield ICE CREAM DRINKS, GLOBE CAFE, and CONFECTIONERY, TOBACCO, and CIGARETTES. Bottom right sign says: DRINK Coca-Cola.
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