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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Color postcard depicting residents, automobiles and streetcars. Caption reads: "Lapeer St. & Genesee Ave. Saginaw, Mich." |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Overhead view looking down from a tall building at passing traffic and workmen on suspended scaffolding near the sidewalk. |
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| Description: | Night view across Lake Monona towards downtown Madison. |
| Date: | 12 16 1964 |
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| Description: | View of a crane about to swing a wrecking ball into a building wall at the 30 W. Mifflin Street and Carroll Street corner of the Square as a crowd is looki... |
| Date: | 08 2013 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of natural plants and trees towards the Madison skyline from across Monona Bay. A line of high-rise buildings frame the Wisconsin State... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view of Trinity Lutheran Church on Columbia Road, a stone building with a clock in the bell tower/steeple. Arched windows are on the front and... |
| Date: | 02 23 1978 |
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| Description: | A Caterpillar bulldozer breaking ground for the construction of the State Natural Resources Building, also known as General Executive Facility (GEF) 2, and... |
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| Description: | A view of City Hall from the square, including the Miller Cafe, other businesses, pedestrians, and a streetcar. Caption reads: "City Hall, Milwaukee, Wis."... |
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| Description: | The Chicago Housing Authority's Prairie Avenue Court public house project was designed by the architectural firm Keck and Keck as Project #410 in 1950. The... |
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| Description: | The Chicago Housing Authority's Prairie Avenue Court public house project was designed by the architectural firm Keck and Keck as Project #410 in 1950. The... |
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| Description: | The Chicago Housing Authority's Prairie Avenue Court public house project was designed by the architectural firm Keck and Keck as Project #410 in 1950. The... |
| Date: | 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Southwest view of 50 E. Huron Street. This house was the residence of Cyrus McCormick Jr. Snow is on the ground. Tall buildings and a water tower are in th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton, in his U.S. Navy dress blues uniform, posing and standing on a metal railing on the platform of a tall structure, possibly a lighthouse o... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Mariner Tower, built in 1930 at 606 West Wisconsin Avenue, standing to the left of the 1927 Schroeder Hotel in this elevated view looking east over lower b... |
| Date: | 09 07 1926 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a man selling newspapers from a delivery truck. Pedestrians and city buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is operating an industrial tractor, which has a shovel on the front for moving earth. Men are in the background standing near a pile of sandbags. Tal... |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is operating an industrial tractor, which has a shovel on the front for moving earth. Tall buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is using an industrial tractor, which has a shovel on the front for moving earth. Tall buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of three men standing outdoors and looking at a map. Behind them is a dump truck and a loader/backhoe. In the background is a city s... |
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