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| Date: | 08 11 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Strand Theater located at 16 East Mifflin Street near the corner of Wisconsin Avenue. The marquee reads "Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View down middle of main street of the business district. Automobiles are parked along the curb and pedestrians are on the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 04 21 1929 |
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| Description: | U.S. Post Office, located at 215 Monona Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 08 1928 |
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| Description: | View of 500 and 600 blocks of University Avenue at night, looking west from West Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Badger Creamery Company at 629 West Washington Avenue at Hawthorne Court. Further down on the left is the Wheeler Conservato... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Park Hotel and surrounding streets. Caption reads: Park Hotel Richland Center, Wis." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Highway sign along STH 11 near Galesville, one of a whole new vocabulary of signage created for automobile traffic. The inverted triangle w... |
| Date: | 03 27 1924 |
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| Description: | Looking northeast on N. Prospect Avenue from E. Juneau Avenue. View of the residential neighborhood with automobiles parked on the side of the roads. Capti... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Man pumps gas into an automobile at the Consolidated Boat Co. There is advertising for Coca-Cola, Baby Ruth, and Occident Flour on the side of the small fr... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A car drives on a main street in a downtown business district. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street looking west. On these blocks there is a restaurant, rug store, post office, and Farmers State Bank. Automobiles are parked on both s... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road of a two-story home located on a corner lot at 330 5th Avenue. There are signs on the lawn advertising rooms for tourists. A man is standi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Street scene featuring a gas station and cafe along a dirt road. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A retail street at the intersection of East Oat Avenue. Cars and trucks are parked in the middle of the street. The shops are: a drugstore, Guernsey's Bake... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | The exterior of the city hall and public library on the corner of East Bluff Street and Wisconsin Avenue. There is a toy wagon outside the building. The la... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View across intersection of the exterior of the Shorb Hotel. Boys on bicycles are in the street in front near a man standing on the curb. Automobiles are p... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Edward Rutledge Charity. There is a sign for the tourist camp and Irvine Park on the lamppost. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two girls and a toddler pose on the side of the street on a sidewalk. Three girls play farther down near a storefront with two cars parked along the street... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A boy stands at the corner in front of the Peoples State Bank. |
| Date: | 09 20 1926 |
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| Description: | Oshkosh Pure Ice and Coal Co. horse-drawn wagon. Note on back: #3, camera pointing west and set 23 feet east of east curb, east wheel of wagon was 3 feet w... |
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