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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View looking south on Barstow Street. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the north side of the 200 block of State Street between Fairchild and Henry Streets. This side was free of saloons. The south si... |
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| Description: | Streetcar conductors pose next to street car #109 on the Oshkosh/Omro line, with the H.C. Roenitz wholesale shoe and rubber company warehouse in the backgr... |
| Date: | 08 06 1941 |
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| Description: | Odd side of the 100 block of King Street , from left to right, Interstate Finance Corp., 113 King Street; entrance to Capital City Bank Building, 111 King ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1935 |
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| Description: | The Blied Building with storefronts, from left to right: Western Union, 21 W. Main Street, Madison Trust Company, 23 W. Main Street, Fanny Farmer, 25 W. Ma... |
| Date: | 05 05 1934 |
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| Description: | Montgomery Ward & Co. at 102 North Hamilton Street at the corner of North Pinckney and East Mifflin Streets. |
| Date: | 05 15 1931 |
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| Description: | A streetcar was knocked off the tracks in an accident with an automobile at the corner of Mills and Drake Streets. |
| Date: | 09 06 1930 |
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| Description: | Banners and caricatures of the Marx Brothers adorn a streetcar advertising the film "Animal Crackers" at the RKO Capitol Theatre. |
| Date: | 01 21 1930 |
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| Description: | First Congregational Church, 1609 University Avenue, at the corner of North Breese Terrace, looking west along University Avenue. Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 05 26 1929 |
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| Description: | University Methodist Church, 1127 University Avenue. The building attached on the far left is the Abiel Brooks House. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Color map, hand-drawn with comic figures engaged in various activities throughout map. Bordered by the river on the left and Lake Michigan on the right, in... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The State Street approach to the Wisconsin State Capitol at the turn of the century. Electric poles and street railroad wires are in the foreground. In the... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A man tips his hat to a passing woman as horse-drawn carts and pedestrians navigate through the dirt and mud of Milwaukee streets, thereby illustrating tha... |
| Date: | 06 1947 |
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| Description: | A family boarding a route #40 streetcar. A sign on the front of the car advertises midget auto racing at the State Fair grounds; the second urges people to... |
| Date: | 05 1950 |
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| Description: | View across street of street railroad car #63. The car was built by the Cincinnati Car Co., and purchased from the Shaker Heights Rapid Transit Co. by Milw... |
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| Description: | View down snow-covered streetcar tracks towards a streetcar traveling up an unidentified residential street in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The repair shop of the Madison Traction Company on Fair Oaks Avenue, with five streetcars and a team of horses in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot... |
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