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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester's, Incorporated, a department store on Mifflin Street. |
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| Description: | An early electric-powered streetcar in downtown Eau Claire, as it appeared about 1890-1895. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Evening Wisconsin building. There is a horse-drawn vehicle on the left near the curb. |
| Date: | 03 16 1919 |
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| Description: | View showing the flood conditions on city streets from the 1919 Flood on the Trempealeau River. Four men are surveying the damage. Caption reads: "Highwate... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on a city street surrounded by onlookers, perhaps a parade or some other public event. Two of the men in the street are carrying photography... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | An advertisement featuring Wauwatosa, showing the First Baptist Church, on the left, built in 1854 and the First Congregational Church, on the right built ... |
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| Description: | View over rooftops of town. A river is on the left, with a neighborhood on higher ground beyond. Caption reads: "Bird's-Eye View, Wausau, Wis." |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Racine, Wis. in 1850." Artist's rendering of the view of the harbor with sailing ships, sailboats, rowboats and canoes. The Main Stre... |
| Date: | 08 06 1949 |
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| Description: | The new addition to the Wisconsin State Journal building, located at 115 South Carroll Street. The combined structures will become the plant of Madison New... |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Copeland Opera House from across street. |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Lineup of parade vehicles at Law Park along Lake Monona for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. |
| Date: | 06 18 1952 |
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| Description: | William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows... |
| Date: | 07 04 1994 |
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| Description: | The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A view of downtown Thorp. Lampposts lining the street on both sides. Cars parked at the curbs on both sides. A couple cars driving away down the street. On... |
| Date: | 02 28 1948 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street, with a railroad crossing at the far end of the street. On the left is a shoe repair store, lumber business, and a lunch room with a ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | View down middle of unpaved street towards six children standing in the middle. There is a storefront on the right, with an automobile and a horse and bugg... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view taken from the roof of a building. Yards and dwellings in the foreground, with a church and school in the background. There are three or four... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View downhill towards a central business district. A restaurant and ice cream parlor are on the right side of the road, and a general store and gas pump ar... |
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