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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Frances Willard School house built in 1853. The image of a bow is printed on the left. Caption reads: "The Francis E. Willard School, Janesville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The Grand Hotel. Caption reads: "Grand Hotel, Janesville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | The Lappin block, Ed. Carpenter, proprietor. Businesses on this block include: Bort, Baily & Co., Dry Goods and Carpets; A.F. Hall & Co., "The Reliable Jew... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the busy streets of Court and Milwaukee. Three prominent buildings in view are: Court Street Methodist Church on the far left (b. 1868), w... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Street looking west. In the foreground is a dog standing on a bridge. Signs on a building on the right read: "Furniture" and "Valley Chief Reaper... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View from along right side of bridge of Milwaukee Street looking east in Janesville. The Myers House is located at the top of the hill. There is a sign for... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View down left side of street towards the right side of the street. A man is on a horse-drawn wagon in the left foreground. Storefronts are on the right. C... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Tallman Homestead Marker. There are automobiles parked along the curb in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Van Pool Brothers office, where the Master Builders' Association of Wisconsin was founded. Caption reads: "Birthplace of Master Builders ... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Employees of the General Motors plant in head to work. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Hotel Myers, in downtown Janesville. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesville in 1873 and lived there until his father, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones moved th... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Street scene with pedestrians near Milwaukee Street bridge. The Hotel Myers is in the background. The Lappin-Hayes Block is seen to the right of the Myer... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Rock River, with a large smokestack and water tower on the left. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesville in 1873 and lived there u... |
| Date: | 07 17 1909 |
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| Description: | Field trip to Emma Willard's home near Janesville by the 18th annual convention of the Loyal Temperance League of Wisconsin. The sign on one of the wagons... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon speaks at an outdoor event. There is an airplane in the background. Patricia Nixon is shown seated behin... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Looking east down East Milwaukee Street. Commercial intersection in downtown, with pedestrians walking across the street over street-railroad tracks. The ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians and automobiles downtown. A street-railroad track runs down the middle of the road. |
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