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| Description: | Color postcard of the new Motel Viking. Text on back reads: "New Motel Viking, Junction 53 & 8, Cameron, Wisconsin. TV, AAA, 20 Units - Air-Conditioned - C... |
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| Description: | Black and white postcard of cabins in front of a bluff, perhaps Castle Rock. A larger building is visible to the right. Text on bottom reads: "Castle Rock ... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view down a street (Rittenhouse Avenue) to Lake Superior. The street is lined with businesses and parked cars. Caption reads: "Street Sc... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view from street of the Hotel Rogers on a street corner. Text on front reads: "Hotel Rogers, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Hotel Eau Claire and its three-story tall electric sign. The hotel is on a corner, and cars are parked along the curbs, and pedestrian... |
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| Description: | View of Main Street with the Retlaw Theater on the right. Automobiles and street car tracks are in the center of the street. Caption reads: "Main Street, l... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of the Main Street Bridge with a large electric sign "Welcome to the Fort" on the left. Pedestrians are walking on the bridge. Caption reads: "Main St... |
| Date: | 03 09 1918 |
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| Description: | View of a city sidewalk after a snow storm, with tall piles of snow along the curb. Men are walking along the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Green Bay's Worst S... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of Washington Street at an intersection. Commercial buildings are on both sides of the street, with automobiles parked along the cu... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view down street towards a shopping district, which is lined with shops: Walgreen's, Prange's, and Kinney Shoes. Automobiles are parked ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of a shopping district lined with shops, and a theater on the left. A Prange's Department Store, and a Leath's furniture store is o... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view down a street in a main shopping district. Traffic signals are on the corners, and a large flag is hanging from the Beaumont Hotel ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street with businesses on both sides, including drug stores, grocery stores, appliance stores and an insurance/real estate office. Automobil... |
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| Description: | Color postcard view from intersection towards a roadside tavern. Text on reverse reads: "TIBBIES Where Chicken is King at Indian Ford, Wis. Three miles... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of a central business district street lined with lampposts and electric signs. Automobiles are parked at the curbs. Caption reads: "Main Street Lookin... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a central business district. The Majestic theater is on the left, and a furniture store is on the right. A street car, pedestrians and aut... |
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| Description: | View of the central business district with the street ending at the lakefront. Automobiles are moving up and down the street, one pulling a boat on a trail... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A view across Pinckney Street at the corner of Main Street. The two blocks along the Square include storefronts for Stevens, Mangel's, and Richman's. The F... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of 8th Street, looking north in a central business district. Cars are parked along the curb, and other cars are moving down the stre... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Hotel Charles, at the corner of Second and Main Street. A drug store is on the corner, with a bakery next door. Automobiles are parked... |
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