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| Date: | 12 29 1975 |
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| Description: | Two International Scouts entering a closed road. The roads appear to be unplowed and on a mountain. Sign reads, "Road Closed no winter maintenance." Origin... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the St. Joseph's Hospital. In the center is a two level open porch, with two people on the second level. A 1930s automobile is par... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view looking north on Barnard Avenue from Packard Avenue. There are businesses, automobiles and pedestrians on both sides of the stre... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Black and white photograph looking west down James Street at intersection, with pedestrians on the sidewalks and parked automobiles along the curbs. Captio... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View down street of commercial buildings. Text on back reads: "A friendly city of prosperous, industrious people in a farming and vacationers' paradise. 'T... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Catholic Church with a spire and stairways in front, on a narrow street. Trees and power poles line the street. Caption reads: "Catholic Church, Eagle, Wis... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Crossroads with Hwy 67 straight ahead; the road on the left goes toward Rte. 59 and Oconomowoc. The right turn goes towards Mukwonago. Power lines are over... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Diagonal view across Hwy 99 going through Eagle, Wisconsin. Probably Jericho Street, but unmarked. Cars are parked at an angle in front of storefronts lini... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Grade School building. Caption reads: "Grade School, Durand, Wis." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the Maryland State House from the street. A woman stands in front of the camera looking back to her right. |
| Date: | 02 18 1996 |
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| Description: | A view from Bedford Street of the smouldering ruins of the Hotel Washington. A pedestrian crosses the street in front of a parked firetruck. Water being us... |
| Date: | 01 1963 |
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| Description: | View from street of businesses along West Main Street, long after the remodeling of the Blied Building, 29 West Main Street, when the top two stories were ... |
| Date: | 06 1985 |
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| Description: | View up Wisconsin Avenue at West Dayton Street towards the razing of Manchester's Department Store. There are construction workers working near two cranes ... |
| Date: | 12 31 1964 |
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| Description: | Harold Thompson, City Traffic Engineering Foreman, with a display of some street signs with look-alike and sound-alike names, a problem for fire and police... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Bernice Lindsay is standing under a new reflected street name sign in her honor. She is wearing a coat, a hat, and a broach. Beside her is a fire hydrant. ... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips is in a dress on a podium. She is next to Bernice Lindsay, who is wearing a coat and a hat. Behind them is Reverend Lovell Johnson, who is wea... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Alderman Martin E. Schreiber, President of the Milwaukee Common Council, is on a podium wearing a suit. On the left is Vel Phillips who is wearing a dress.... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | 6th Ward Milwaukee Alderman Vel Phillips is wearing a dress and standing on a podium. To the right are Bernice Lindsay and Reverend Lovell Johnson standing... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips is on a podium wearing a dress. To the left are two members of the media holding recording equipment who are documenting the N Lindsay Street ... |
| Date: | 04 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Reverend Lovell Johnson of St. Marks African Methodist Episcopal Church is on a podium in a coat and hat. On her right are Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay... |
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