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Main Street on the Square

Date: 1900
Description: View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West."
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King Street

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized view of King Street, looking east, with a streetcar. Lake Monona is in the background. Caption reads: "King Street, looking East, Madison, Wis."
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Pinckney Street at Night

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view at night of streetcars moving along the Capitol Square on Pinckney Street. Walzinger's Drugstore is one of the prominent storefronts on the l...
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Lake Park Pavilion

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Description: View across road toward a large pavilion with a gray roof and tower. A dirt road passes across the lower foreground. On the right of the building is a trol...
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Majestic Building and Schlitz Hotel

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Description: Elevated view of the hotel on a street corner. The Majestic is the tallest building in the image. Signs designate two of the buildings, with a smaller buil...
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Majestic Theatre Building

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of fourteen-story theatre building, with two red buildings on either side of it. On the street are people, horses, carriages, and trolleys. C...
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Main Street with Streetcar

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Description: Colorized elevated view looking north down Main Street. There is a streetcar and two horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground. Caption reads: "Main Street, l...
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Promotional Postcard

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Description: Promotional postcard with three city scene sketches and thirty-one characteristics of the city listed. Caption reads: "Kankakee the Rising City Beautiful."

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