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People Posing in front of House

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Description: Photographic postcard of a group of adults posing in front of a brick house. The house has a patterned design on the exterior. Below the peak of the roof, ...
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Park Avenue

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Description: Colorized postcard view down the sidewalk of a tree-lined street in a residential neighborhood. Pedestrians are on the sidewalk in the front of what may be...
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Goodwin Block

Date: 1909
Description: Colorized postcard view from the street of the Goodwin block, featuring a hotel and a pharmacy. Several bicycles are parked at the curb. Caption reads: "Go...
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522 First Avenue

Date: 1908
Description: View from the street of three people standing in front of a small house. There is a small Oeil-de-boeuf window in the upper story. The windows have shutter...
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Bernard Schoeneman Homestead

Date: 1920
Description: Former Bernard Schoeneman (b. 1826; d. 1904) homestead. View from garden towards the brick farmhouse, where seven people, women and children, are posing on...
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Street Scene

Date: 1906
Description: The printed inscription identifies this scene, "Looking South on Main Street, Montello, Wis." A woman is standing on the sidewalk at left near a parked bug...
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Cold Storage Plant, Lomira, Wis.

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a brick warehouse next to a dwelling. Attached to the postcard is an inset portrait of a seated women in the upper right c...
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Court Street

Date: 10 16 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Court Street, Richland Center, Wis." Pedestrians are walking on the sidewalks of a main street, with many businesses on each side. Se...
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Street Scene

Date: 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Street Scene, Richland Ctr., Wis." Pedestrians are walking on the sidewalks of a main street, with many businesses on each side. A st...
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Parade Float

Date: 1912
Description: Several people, holding umbrellas, are riding in a car decorated with many tissue paper pom poms for a parade. There are miniature horse models on the hood...
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Patriotic Crowd

Date: 1914
Description: A crowd of adults and children are standing in a line with American Flags on a brick street. There is a large, three-story brick building on the right. In ...
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Ripon High School

Date: 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Ripon High School, Ripon, Wis." A two-story, red brick building, with a group of students and teachers posing on the lawn. The school...
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South Side Square

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "South Side Square. Ripon, Wis." View across square towards buildings which line the South Side of the brick paved Public Square. Seve...
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Bird's Eye View of Destruction

Date: 08 01 1907
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Bird's Eye View of Destruction, St. John's Institute for Deaf Mutes, St. Francis, Wis. Aug. 1, 1907." A partially burned stone and ...
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South View of Fire Damage

Date: 08 01 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "South View, St. John's Institute for Deaf Mutes, St. Francis, Wis. Aug. 1, 1907." A partially burned stone and brick building with pe...
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The New Auditorium

Date: 04 08 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "The New Auditorium, Milwaukee." A large brick building with stone trim, surrounded by a large lawn and sidewalks. Several people are ...
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Third Street, North from Sycamore

Date: 09 03 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Third St., North from Sycamore, Milwaukee, Wis." A busy city street with streetcars, automobiles, trucks and pedestrians. Many buildi...
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First National Bank

Date: 11 06 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "First National Bank, Milwaukee, Wis." An early Milwaukee "skyscraper" built of brick in the Neoclassical style. It was built in 1912....
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New Auditorium

Date: 1916
Description: Text on front reads: "The New Auditorium, Seymour, Wis." The newly finished brick auditorium with construction debris still evident. A man and a women are ...
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Two Views of Sheboygan

Date: 08 10 1919
Description: Text on front reads: "On the Sheboygan River, Sheboygan, Wis., Elks Club." The view on top is of people in a boat on a river with trees and shrubs on the s...

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