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Driving Hogs Through Town

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Description: Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t...
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TV Dealership Rarick's Hardware

Date: 12 06 1956
Description: View across street toward Rarick's Hardware, a color television dealer. A group of people are posing on the sidewalk in front of the show windows. A truck ...
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International D-15 Truck Delivering Goods to Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store

Date: 06 21 1938
Description: Salesman delivering farm and garden goods to the Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware store, 21 South Pinckney Street on the Madison Capitol Square, with an Inter...
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Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store

Date: 02 25 1945
Description: Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store, 401 West Gilman Street, at the corner of State Street.
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Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store

Date: 05 05 1934
Description: Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Co. hardware store, located at 17 South Pinckney Street. There is a lighted "TOYS" sign above the second floor display window. The vie...
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Interior of Continental Store, 6 North Street

Date: 09 11 1946
Description: Continental Store grand opening sale, 6 North Street. Interior view showing counters and merchandise, washing machines, bicycles, auto parts and cash regis...
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Corner of W. Main and S. Carroll Streets

Date: 1860
Description: View across Capitol Park lawn towards the corner of West Main and South Carroll Streets with businesses and horse-drawn wagons. The building at the corner ...
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Loading Truck at Landall Brothers Dealership

Date: 03 09 1933
Description: Men loading a cream separator and gas pumps into the back of an International Red Baby truck in front of the Landall Brothers hardware store and farm equip...
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International Model 94 Truck

Date: 1924
Description: Man sitting in an International model 94 truck owned by Shapleigh Hardware. The truck is hitched to a canvas covered trailer, and is parked on a wet cobble...
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International Model D-15 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: International model D-15 truck with special body parked outside the "Community Hardware" store. The truck was owned by the Union Fork and Hoe Company of Co...
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Men Posing Outside Local Businesses

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Description: Seventeen men and boys are posing in front of the storefronts on a sidewalk on the north side of Main Street, between First and Second Streets, including O...
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Al. Ringling Theater

Date: 1950
Description: View across street of the Al. Ringling Theater with a Studebaker pickup truck in the foreground. There is a hardware store on the right.
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Buildings at Crossroads

Date: 05 1962
Description: Texaco gas station on the left and cars parked on the road next to buildings in downtown Beetown. The road is rutted and muddy with puddles. Several signs ...
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J.W. Mason Hardware Store

Date: 1900
Description: View from across street of the J.W. Mason hardware store, next to a barbershop. A horse and buggy are driving past the store.
Postcard

Superior Avenue

Date: 1905
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...
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Joseph Rumenopp's Hardware Store

Date: 1884
Description: The hardware store opened and run by Joseph Rumenopp located on the corner of Central Avenue and East Second Street. The store was later sold to J.J. Willi...
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Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View down center of unpaved street. A sign on the building on the left corner reads: "The Upham & Russell Co. Hardware and Metals". A barber's pole is on t...
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Monroe Street Businesses

Date: 1958
Description: Exterior view of businesses along 1831-1841 Monroe Street, including: H & R Variety store, Schensky Hardware, Archer's Pharmacy and Main Western Auto.
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Rest Stop

Date: 1925
Description: A passenger bus making a stop at the service station of Gustav H. Schwalen.
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First Avenue in Fairbanks

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Description: View down business-lined First Avenue. Pedestrians are walking along the street. Caption reads: "Looking Up First Avenue — Fairbanks, Alaska. In The Winter...

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