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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when the film "Foreign Correspondent" was showing there. The marquee says the gala premiere o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square. There is a large crowd on the sidewalk outside the theater. The marquee says the premiere of the fi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Rivoli Theater in Times Square the night the film "Foreign Correspondent" premiered there. Above the marquee is a large banner covering the front of th... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Toots Sullivan (on left) and Emil Picha stand in front of the exterior of the Toot's Standard Gas Station at the intersection of Mill Street and Prairie Av... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across street towards Manchestor's store. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view from street intersection of the High School gymnasium. Caption reads: "High School Gymnasium, Darlington, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph postcard of the park at the Grotto, with houses in the background. Caption reads: "Park at Grotto, Dickeyville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Looking north on Bridge Street from Spring Street intersection. In foreground, left, is a bank. In foreground, right, is a restaurant with a neon sign that... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk towards people standing in a line outside a movie theater showing the film The Long Voyage Home. Many people are holding umbrella... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of a crowd gathered along a pier for Regatta Day. Boats are docked alongside the pier on the left. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of man carrying a metal trash bin towards a dump truck. A man sits in the driver's seat. Another man stands near metal trash bins behind a fence along... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, one in the driver's seat of the D-300 M.T. truck, and the other carrying a metal trash bin, on a residential street. The truck is used by the Refu... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View looking north across intersection towards the 400 block of North Carroll Street. A light snow clings to the trees and roofs of the houses. A car is ap... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Rail handcar parked outdoors in a dirt yard. There is debris piled in the background, and in the far background are houses. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A photographer is walking near railroad tracks at a railroad crossing, with an automobile at the crossing in the background on the right. The photographer ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Colorized photographic postcard view of the front of Luther Hospital with automobiles parked in the drive. Caption reads: "Luther Hospital, Eau Claire, Wis... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view from shoreline looking downstream at the Fox River locks, with a bridge behind it. A boat is tied along the shoreline just below... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View down hill towards a man and a woman posing in the act of putting on a green of the golf course in Peninsula State Park. Eagle Harbor and the village o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A young boy wearing knickers, high stockings and a jacket is watching two swans on the Mullet River. A bridge and the rear of commercial buildings are in t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A split rail fence in the foreground frames a view of Eagle Harbor and Ephraim from Peninsula State Park. |
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