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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three men, including Governor Patrick J. Lucey, pose in front of a sign that reads: "Labor Works For Highway Safety. Make Labor Day Weekend A Safe, Pleasan... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Man driving a horse-drawn trolley of the Milwaukee City Railroad Company on the Greenfield Avenue & Third Street line. The corner of a building advertising... |
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| Description: | A car advertisement for a 1966 Chevelle on a billboard in a small unidentified Appalachian town. |
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| Description: | A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street of Central House, with advertisements on the side of the building for Red Crown Gasoline. The Order of the Gideons was founded he... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of Joe's Liquor Store at 702 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | An advertisement for the A.H. Kayser lumberyard at 204 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | 1904 Exhibit of the Maryland Association for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, in a railway coach. Photograph taken in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of the White Front Grocery at 610-612 Mound Street, in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Bluff street looking west. Posters are on a wall on the far right next to a building with an awning that reads: "Saloon". |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | The driver of the wienermobile finds the entrance to the Oscar Mayer tent at the Wisconsin State Fair too low for it to get in. |
| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Left view of White Front Grocery at 610-12 Mound Street in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Right view of the White Front Grocery at 610-12 Mound Street in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the Post Office and bank. An advertisement for a hardware store is on the side of the building on the left. Caption reads: "Post O... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertisement reads: "Castle-Pierce Printing Company" and "Jan. 1915". At bottom it reads: "Oshkosh, Wisconsin". Text on right reads: "North Station C. & N... |
| Date: | 09 01 1884 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the need for workers to pick cranberries for the Wisconsin Cranberry Company. |
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| Description: | A T.M.E.R. and L Company streetcar is stopped on Washington Avenue, with the two streetcar operators aboard. The advertisement on the streetcar reads, "190... |
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| Description: | Two elderly women walking on a sidewalk next to a storefront. |
| Date: | 07 24 1933 |
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| Description: | View of the A. Sinaiko Hay, Flour and Feed store, located at 653 West Washington Avenue. On the building are several advertisements for Quaker Feeds. |
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| Description: | Two men reading a newspaper outside of a storefront. The store's sign, partially obstructed, reads, "Richards[on]'s Flour & Feed[?] Stor[e]. Coca-cola, R... |
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