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Main Street Streetcar

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner.
Postcard

Washington Street

Date: 1905
Description: View looking down Washington Street with cable car, bicyclist and pedestrians walking along the sidewalks in downtown area. Caption reads: "Washington Stre...
Photograph

View from the West Bank of the Milwaukee River

Date: 07 11 1912
Description: Looking east on E. Wisconsin Avenue from the west bank of the Milwaukee River. The Pabst Building is on the left.
Photograph

Downtown Milwaukee Street

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Description: View down Milwaukee street with strolling pedestrians on the sidewalk. The large commercial buildings include the Gridley Dairy Co. storefront. There is al...
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Street Scene near Wisconsin National Bank

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Description: Street and sidewalk outside of the Wisconsin National Bank. Men, women, and children are walking on sidewalks, and crossing in front of streetcars. Horse-d...
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2nd Wisconsin Regiment Lines a City Street

Date: 1898
Description: Soldiers from the second Wisconsin regiment line a city street upon returning from Puerto Rico. There is a horse-drawn cart and an electric street car on t...
Photograph

Midsummer Festival Monument

Date: 1898
Description: View from across street of the Midsummer Festival Monument in the Court of Honor on the median of Grand Avenue. An electric street car is visible in the ba...
Photograph

Henderson Street

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Description: View of a boy riding a bicycle in a city street with an electric cable car on tracks in the background. Horse-drawn carts are visible as well. Business sig...
Photograph

Hotel Adnabrown

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Description: View of Hotel Adnabrown from across the street including other surrounding buildings and a streetcar. Caption reads: "Hotel Adnabrown, Springfield, VT."
Postcard

Main Street with Streetcar

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Description: Colorized elevated view looking north down Main Street. There is a streetcar and two horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground. Caption reads: "Main Street, l...
Photograph

Flores Avenue

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Description: View of Flores Avenue, a commercial section of downtown. The city hall, built in 1884, stands on the left near Laredo National Bank, founded in 1892. On ...
Photograph

Downtown Street Scene

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Description: View of downtown looking toward Hotel de Francia. The city hall, built in 1884, is at right.
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Shopping District

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Description: Pedestrians cross the street in front of cable cars and horse-drawn carriages at the intersection of Fifth and Hampshire Streets.
Photograph

Street Scene

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Description: View across intersection down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles and horse-drawn...
Photograph

Street Scene in the Business District

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Description: View down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson in the distance at left, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles, cable cars...
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Downtown Street Scene

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Description: View of a downtown street featuring cable cars, horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and storefronts. National Hotel, built in 1855, stands on the street co...
Photograph

State Street, Erie, Pennsylvania

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Description: View down State Street featuring cable cars, horse-drawn carriages, and bicycles. Pedestrians pass by shops and the Marine National Bank on the right, kno...
Photograph

Street Scene

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Description: View down a street. A sport runabout car parks in the foreground.
Print

John Pritzlaff Hardware Co. Billhead

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Description: Billhead of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "jobbers in hardware, iron & cutlery, bicycles, sporting goods etc.," with a three...
Postcard

Grand Avenue

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Description: Elevated, colorized postcard view of a street in a central business district. Streetcar tracks run down the center of the street, and automobiles are drivi...

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