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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of a dog standing on front walk in front of the Dr. Chris L. Thuerer home, a large Four Square Style house which has large bay windows and... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A foursquare style house with front and back porches sits on a large landscaped lot with a decorative fence and painted pergola. The house, at 220 Eighth S... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of a two-story, wood frame house with a front porch sittomg on a wooded lot. The house has a large chimney, dentil molding under the eaves... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A uniformed delivery man is standing next to an International D-15 truck parked near the curb in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Hawkins Service Station, located at 309 Seventh Avenue. The station has a pagoda style roof typical of stations designed between 1917 and 1930 by Alexande... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children play in a large swimming pool with a stone changing house. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A fleet of four pickup trucks of various makes and a larger truck, all advertising L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating on the door. They are parked on a reside... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Pete Sprecher's Cafe and Bar on Water Street. A sign identifies the entrance to Pearl's Garden Dining Room. There are two benches and a penny weight machi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from road of large two-story house which has been converted to a funeral home. The two-story structure has a large porch and brick on the first story,... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from across street of a crowd sitting on the porch, lawn and street in front of the Elks Lodge (Al. Ringling house) listening to a speaker standing at... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men and a police officer stand beside the "Pioneer," an early Chicago and Northwestern Railroad locomotive which is parked beside the Sauk County Court... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of the street that runs through the Dartmouth College campus. Trees and buildings line the way, with a stone "Slow Keep Right" obelisk in the middl... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the west side of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus looking towards Bascom Hill. Lake Mendota is in the background on the right. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of foundation of the house built by Dominique DuCharme in 1790 and enlarged by Augustin Grignon after 1804. The Grignon family resided in the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man walks down Main Street towards an Amoco station and parked cars. To his left, a sign advertises "The Art Center" located on Hoyt's Lane. The Leavit... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A wide load on a Sarajevo street, about a year before the Kingdom of Yugoslavia fell to the Germans. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Wood carts and drivers on a street in Sarajevo, about a year before the city fell to the Germans. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A Yugoslavian cemetery in Sarajevo photographed by journalist Alvin Steinkopf about one year before the city fell to the Germans. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man uses tongs to remove a block of ice from the back of an International D-300 owned by the Oscar Mayer Company as he makes a delivery to 150 Lakewood B... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, railroads, roads, creameries and cheese fact... |
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