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| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a man in the driver's seat of an International Special Delivery dairy truck parked in front of billboards. The International Spe... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | 1101 Williamson Street. This natural foods bakery was organized and managed by its employees. The co-op opened in this location between 1973-74. |
| Date: | 05 15 1918 |
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| Description: | Vacant city lot cluttered with litter and advertising billboards for Premium Ham and Bacon and Wool Soap. The department likely used the photograph to show... |
| Date: | 01 08 1946 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk along East Wilson Street at the corner of the South Hancock intersection looking toward the West Wilson Street-King Street intersection.... |
| Date: | 08 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Building at 327 State Street to be occupied by B.F. Goodrich (formerly Sherwin-Williams Paint store). Billboards include Coca-Cola, Sunshine Krispy Cracker... |
| Date: | 11 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Singer Sewing Machine Company store, 325 State Street, and Sherwin Williams Paint and Wallpaper Store, 327-329 State Street, with a billboard on top of the... |
| Date: | 06 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Ace Buick Company sales and service garage, 16 N. Fairchild Street, with Gardner's Purity Bread and Coca-Cola billboards on the side of the building. Autom... |
| Date: | 02 22 1942 |
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| Description: | Burned-out Beran's D-X Diamond Mid-Continent Service Station, 118 King Street, at the corner of South Webster, including Kellogg's Cereal and Schlitz Beer ... |
| Date: | 10 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Looking east on University Avenue from the intersection with Grand Avenue, with the rear view of an automobile in the foreground. On the right is Samuel Fi... |
| Date: | 05 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Front door of Lewis D-X Service Station at night, 118 King Street. Sign on door reads: "We meet the finest people in the world at this station --- our cust... |
| Date: | 05 09 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men service an automobile at Lewis D-X Diamond Service Station, 118 King Street at S. Webster Street, with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the b... |
| Date: | 05 09 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men servicing an automobile at the Lewis D-X Diamond Gas Station, 118 King Street at S. Webster Street. |
| Date: | 11 12 1936 |
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| Description: | Chicago & Northwestern Railroad tracks, looking east at the crossing of S. Blair Street, King Street, E. Wilson Street, and Williamson Street. Included in ... |
| Date: | 05 31 1935 |
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| Description: | Diamond D-X Service Station, 118 King Street. (Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.) The view is across S. Webster Street looking up King Street toward the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 05 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Four men are looking on during installation of a billboard designed by Hinkson Advertising Agency, at the corner of S. Park Street and Olin Avenue. The sig... |
| Date: | 06 17 1933 |
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| Description: | A worker is sorting through the rubble from the collapsed Kleinheinz Pennco service station (Pennsylvania Oil Company), 702 S. Park Street. People in the ... |
| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Farm Utilities Company, located at 124 S. Butler Street. (A Trachte building.) |
| Date: | 01 06 1931 |
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| Description: | A man stands at a safety zone in the middle of West Mifflin Street between lanes of traffic at the corner of State Street and N. Carroll Street, waiting to... |
| Date: | 11 07 1930 |
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| Description: | View of Harry S. Manchester's Inc. department store with display windows and awnings over the entrances, on the corner at 2-6 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 05 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Strand Theater, with marquee advertising Warner Baxter and Carol Lombard in "The Arizona Kid," and Collyer's Pharmacy, Kinney Shoes, and a Heinz billboard. |
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