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| Description: | View of businesses on South Water Street, including the Monroe County Bank and a drugstore on the left. Caption reads: "South Water Street, Sparta, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Superior Avenue, with the Tomah Hardware store in the left foreground. A number of pedestrians and horse-drawn sleds and vehicles are in t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of Water Street, featuring the Monroe County Bank on the corner on the left. Caption reads: "Water Street, Looking North, Sparta, Wis." |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | View on North Water Street, showing the building in which the Bank of Sparta was founded. A man is walking beside a oxen pulling a covered wagon. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops towards a main street during berry season. Horse-drawn wagons are gathered further down the street near an intersection. The Mo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View down street towards an intersection. Large lampposts are at each corner. A sign on the building on the left reads: "Sidney." Caption reads: "Oak St. E... |
| Date: | 06 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Looking south. A jeep sits in the middle of the construction zone. The storefronts are covered with quilts and blankets. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Main Street with several cars parked along the curb. A curbside Red Crown gas pump is visible at the right near the O.W. Schuele Hardware store, and people... |
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| Description: | View across unpaved street of a row of stores. On the corner is the Cashton Hardware Company. A horse and wagon is parked at the curb of H. B. Bohl City Me... |
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| Description: | View down Front Street of stores and shops. At the far end of the street is a group of men with horse-drawn wagons. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down an unpaved road towards a central business district. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Edward Moe General Merchandise which offers groceries, dry goods, shoes, hardware, automotive supplies, Red Crown gasoline, Red Seal dry batteries, and Mob... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | View down a commercial street. An automotive repair shop is located on the left side of the street. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View down road towards a group of men posing on the porch of Young's general store. |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. There is a bank on the right and a 5&10 cent store on the left. Horse-drawn wagons and carriages are along the unpaved street. In th... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Street scene down middle of street, with businesses on both sides. A hotel, the post office, and a hardware store are on the left. A mercantile, ice cream ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View from street of the facade of the Farmer's State Bank. The cornerstone of the building says "1913". A group of men sit on a bench in front of a store o... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across an unpaved road of the business district. There is a man standing in front of a general store, with a hand water pump and bucket near the porch... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down center of Main Street. On the left is the Hotel Lewis, with a columned porch and awnings above the second-story windows. Further down the street ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street from its intersection with Oak Street. On the left corner is a bank and two drug stores. On the right are two restaurants and a shoe sh... |
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