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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as the Coroner from "The Wizard Of Oz," shaking hands outdoors with a man wearing a hat and coat. Behind them is the Oscar Mayer W... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | International D-30 truck with a silver streamlined armored body built for Brinks, Inc. A man is sitting the driver's seat. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the inn, with three cars parked in front. There is a "Chicken & Steak Dinner" sign, as well as a "Schlitz" beer sign. The cobbl... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard hospital marker that reads: "Old Fort Howard • 1816 • This building formerly stood with the surgeons quarters and the powder magazine by the ri... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of the Tank Cottage, aka the Roi-Poerlier-Tank Cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Tank cottage. The cottage was built in 1776 by Joseph Roi, a fur trader, who lived in it until 1805 when it was purchased by Jacques Porl... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A marker at Lake Pepin made by the sixth grade of Whitehall Memorial School as part of their Junior Historian activities. The Junior Historians are a grade... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Hamacher Hotel on West Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | 1100 block of South Sixteenth Street with storefronts and automobile traffic. Cable car tracks run down the middle of the street. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Main Street, showing a grocery store, restaurant, and the Up and Down Tavern. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Leslie (formerly Old Belmont), Wisconsin. The first Wisconsin Terrritorial Capitol, a building rented by the Legislature which met there for 46 days in 183... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Looking East down middle of avenue. Numerous vehicles are on the road, with a few pedestrians visible. A sign identifies the Republican Hotel on the left, ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Looking east on Wisconsin Avenue in the 800 block between 8th and 9th Streets. Cars are parked and driving down the street. An apartment block called the B... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. A building on the left has a large sign for Gimbel's on its roof. Beyond the river in the background are two large s... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Central Building. Six-story building with cars along the road next to it. In the lower foreground is a parking lot with a sign listing parking as 15 cents. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front entrance to Notre Dame Hall; taken at an angle. The name of the hall is above the arched doorway. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Small neighborhood of the city at the west end of the Menomonee River Valley. Overhead is the second Wisconsin Avenue Viaduct, demolished in 1992. Cars a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | There is a sign painted on a building at right that reads "Schlitz". In the bottom right are railroad cars. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across street of storefronts, including a barbershop, and a sign reading "Alamo" above a marquee that says "Free Poultry and Country Store". The 1100 ... |
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