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Street Scene

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Description: View down rows of automobiles lined up and parked at an angle in the middle of the street. Sidewalks and storefronts are on both sides of the street.
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King's Garage

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Description: Exterior view of the King Motor Company Garage. Automobiles are parked near the curb, and other cars are being driven down the street.
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View of the 200 Block of State Street

Date: 1941
Description: Elevated view of the south side 200 block of State Street. A large sign announces the coming of a new Montgomery Ward's store on the site. Stores shown inc...
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Law Enforcement Officers with Protest Signs

Date: 1964
Description: A group of law enforcement officers wearing helmets hold rolled up paper, probably signs confiscated from demonstrators during a Freedom Summer protest out...
Photograph

Voting Rights Protesters

Date: 1964
Description: View down sidewalk of two male protestors wearing signs around their necks walking down a sidewalk in a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. The sign...
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Voting Rights Protesters

Date: 1964
Description: View towards sidewalk of a line of demonstrators carrying signs during a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. A man walking along the sidewalk holds ...
Photograph

Clay County Welfare Office

Date: 1965
Description: View down sidewalk of the Clay County welfare office. The caption on the back of the image reports that African-Americans who received welfare were treated...
Photograph

Dow Chemical Protest

Date: 10 1967
Description: A small group of women, along with two children, hold signs protesting Dow Chemical. Two women are wearing gas masks.
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Flood in Darlington

Date: 02 28 1948
Description: View up hill of cars driving in the flooded street of the downtown area. The downtown had also flooded in 1923 and 1937. The Pecatonica River rose rapidly ...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1930
Description: View down Main Street. The wide street has cars and trucks parked along the curbs on both sides. The Elroy Post Office is on the corner on the right. Furth...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1920
Description: View down center of unpaved street, showing storefronts on the right, with a metal railing between the street and sidewalk. There is a gas pump at the rail...
Postcard

Bridge Street

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized view of Bridge Street, looking north from Spring Street intersection, in the central business district. The view includes stores, some with canva...
Postcard

Bridge Street

Date: 1940
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...
Map or Atlas

Madison Wisconsin and Vicinity.

Date: 1953
Description: This map shows local streets, roads, highways, Middleton, Monona, Lake Wingra, Lake Monona, Lake Mendota, and an inset map that shows city parking areas. A...
Photograph

Pleasure Boat Ramps

Date: 12 10 1957
Description: Pleasure boat ramps, made of timber, on the south side of Racine Harbor. A man is walking in the snow near the ramps. There are piles of material along the...
Photograph

The State Bank

Date: 1925
Description: View from across street of the 100 block of South Pinckney Street between 1925 and 1929. The State Bank, Lucien S. Banks, President, is in the center. To t...
Photograph

Metropolitan 5 to 50 Cent Stores

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Description: View from intersection of buildings on the corner of N. Pinckney and E. Washington Streets. On East Washington are the offices of C.P. Cooley, a restaurant...
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Water Tower at the top of East Washington Avenue

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Description: View looking down East Washington Avenue towards the water tower. On the left is a sign on the side of a building for the Schoelkopf Ford dealership. There...
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Union Bus Station

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Description: View across Fairchild Street towards the Union Bus Station at 122 W. Washington Avenue, with a row of automobiles parallel parked outside. On the exterior ...
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Loraine Garage

Date: 1927
Description: View across street towards the Loraine Garage at 14 N. Fairchild Street. There is a painted sign on the building advertising parking for 50 cents. There ar...

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