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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A view from the 200 block of State Street looking toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. This urban scene includes marquees for the Orpheum Theatre and the Ca... |
| Date: | 07 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Pennsylvania oil company gas station at the corner of 2 North Park and Regent Streets in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 06 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Ray's Barbecue and Standard Oil Gas Station, on the Oregon Road (just beyond the French Village which was located at 2323 S. Park Street). |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | An elderly man is sitting in the grass by a Windsor Canadian Whiskey billboard. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A view from the roof across an unpaved road towards a building across the street from A.L. Dahl's photography studio. The two-story storefront is a general... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Con Edison billboard for the World Trade Center. The sign reads "To meet the needs of the spectacular twin-towered World Trade Center we're strengthening y... |
| Date: | 03 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior front view of Tony Urso's Westside Palm Tavern located at 730-736 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. Typewritten sheet with pho... |
| Date: | 07 28 1970 |
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| Description: | Traffic on Stevens Point's Second Street. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | The intersection of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue after the old City Hall (1858-1954) and Fuller Opera House had been torn down. |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Race course and grandstand at Road America in Elkhart Lake, where racing began in 1955. Prior to that, Elkhart Lake was host to automobile racing on the vi... |
| Date: | 07 30 1960 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the parking lot at the Westgate Shopping Center. The storefronts are on the left, and include Ragatz Shoes, Three Sisters, ?obil Shoes, S.... |
| Date: | 06 1972 |
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| Description: | View along the 2700 block of Fish Hatchery Road, with billboard advertising residential lots in Tower Hill Park (a development by Llyman McKee and William ... |
| Date: | 04 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Officer Frank B. Ingraham, at his beat on the corners of State, Henry, and Johnson Streets, with young school children from Holy Redeemer School. Ingraham ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Billboard for International motor trucks on Diversey Avenue outside of Deering Works. The billboard lettering reads: "Use International for Low-Cost Haulin... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Neighborhood streets near Deering Works, including several International Harvester billboards. One sign reads: "International Motor Trucks, a size and styl... |
| Date: | 05 14 1924 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Merchant's and Manufacturer's Bank Building on the east side of N. Plankinton Avenue between W. Wisconsin Avenue and W. Wells Street. The ... |
| Date: | 09 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Automobile parked in front of large elm tree at the corner of N. 3rd and W. Center Streets. |
| Date: | 03 03 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east on W. Wisconsin Avenue from approximately N. 4th Street, with the Wisconsin Hotel on the left and the Majestic building on the r... |
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| Description: | W. Wisconsin Avenue and N. 26th Street, looking east. Caption on glass plate reads: "Looking northeast showing property side of street, 2518 W. Wisconsin A... |
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