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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the Post Office and bank. An advertisement for a hardware store is on the side of the building on the left. Caption reads: "Post O... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Postcard for Nakoma Realty Company. Caption reads: "Nakoma, You'll Enjoy The Wide Outdoors! 150 Acres Set Aside For Play! A Madison Realty Co. Property." |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View across the railroad tracks towards downtown area, including The Faast Land Company and General Merchandise store, as well as a sign for the Faast Land... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | West from Third Street. Advertising signs for Schlitz, People's Credit Clothing Co., Peoples Dentist, and other businesses line the buildings along the roa... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking east on Grand Avenue from the corner of Grand Avenue and 2nd Street. Plankinton Block was located between West Water (now Plankinton ... |
| Date: | 10 06 1911 |
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| Description: | View of Monsos Brothers Grocery & Crockery after most of the building was washed away by the flooding Black River. High, rushing water can be seen on the r... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Postcard of the Milwaukee lakefront. In the foreground is an image of Neptune standing in Lake Michigan holding a trident in one hand and a beer stein in t... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | View from the street of a billboard wall along a sidewalk, advertising Lincoln J. Carter's melodrama play, "Chattanooga." It is playing one night, January ... |
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| Description: | John Hahn stands in the street near his horse-drawn cart. The side of the cart says 'John Hahn Piano & Furniture Moving'. The cart, John Hahn, and the cart... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn cart, marked B.C. Horsch, is waiting near Dr. W.H. Perrigo's veterinary and dental business in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood in Milwaukee.... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View the from the street of a building being remodeled to accommodate two businesses: a drugstore on the ground floor and a postal sub-station on the secon... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Black and white photograph looking across unpaved North Main Street towards commercial buildings. Two horse-drawn carriages and one horse-drawn freight wag... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Hotel Lake View at Dartford. It was built in 1891 by Henry Oelke and located at the corner of Hill and Gold Streets. It is no ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard view of a lunch stand advertising buttered popcorn, ice cream cones and cigars. Groups of men, women and children are... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of a street with a lumber office and a church on the left, and dwellings on the right. A man and a dog are on the sidewalk. A tree-covered hill is in ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd gathered for the arrival of Buster Brown at the high school. Buster is in the backseat of a roadster. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of central Janesville from the the courthouse. There are signs advertising Parker Pens and Coca-Cola. Churches are on the horizon. Caption re... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street lined with commercial buildings. Automobiles are parked at the curb and street lamps are at the corners. Caption reads: "Main Street, J... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a row of businesses along the Fox River near the dam. There are horse-drawn vehicles in the street. Advertisements are on the side of the ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the New Kenosha Theatre. The marquee is advertising "Swim, Girl, Swim" with Bebe Daniels. An advertisement is painted on the left side of t... |
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