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| Description: | Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra... |
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| Description: | Two wagons and teams driving past the J.J. McGillivray Sash and Door Company. Two men in the wagon pulled by two horses in the foreground, and a man in the... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Billboard urging Wisconsin motorists to obey the 55 miles per hour speed limit that is illustrated with a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual lea... |
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| Description: | Sign for Lost Canyon, with people standing near a car in the foreground. |
| 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: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of Pewaukee Lake Mills. Asa Clark, a Vermont pioneer who settled in the town of Pewaukee in 1837, erected a sawmill in 1838 at the outlet of the lak... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Riverside Park, as seen from the south side of the Fox River. A section of the Main street bridge can be seen at the left. |
| Date: | 08 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Dane County Oil Company, 1854 South Park Street, following an explosion of an anti-freeze can which killed one person and injured five. |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a branch office operated by Machines Agricoles R. Wallut & Cie., and located at 59 Avenue Berthelot, Lyon (Rhone), France. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man drives an International Model F (or 31) motor truck away from the Red Crown Gasoline auto-filling station. The truck was operated by Standard Oil and... |
| Date: | 03 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men painting a Red Dot Potato Chips mural / billboard on the side of a building. |
| 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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