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Newly Completed Post Office

Date: 1909
Description: View across street toward the post office just after completion. A man is standing on the sidewalk at the street corner. Caption reads: "Post Office, Wausa...
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Main Street, Looking West

Date: 1907
Description: View along sidewalk of Main Street, with pedestrians on the sidewalk and walking across the street. Storefronts line both sides of the street. Caption read...
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Cook Street

Date: 1905
Description: Colorized postcard of a view of Cook Street. Caption reads: "Cook Street, Portage, Wis."
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A Stroll through Donges Bay

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Description: Well-dressed group of three women and one man walking along a dirt road lined with fences and telephone poles. Caption reads: "A Stroll through Donges Bay....
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5th Avenue

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Description: Photographic postcard view of 5th Avenue. Citizens and horse-drawn wagons line the streets and sidewalks. Stores are on both sides of the street, and a ban...
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New Traymore Hotel

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Description: Commercial postcard with slightly elevated view of people on the boardwalk at Atlantic City with the Traymore Hotel in the background. Postmarked from Atla...
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Railroad Loading Platform

Date: 1924
Description: Railroad loading platform with a Gurney Refrigerator Company plant in the far background. On the far left a man pulls a hand cart, in the center a man sits...
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Bank of Durand

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view from across street towards a two-story brick corner building, labeled as the Bank of Durand. Two Ford Model T's ...
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St. Paul's University Chapel

Date: 1909
Description: Black and white printed postcard of a drawing of St. Paul's University Chapel, 723 State Street. Caption reads: "St. Paul's University Chapel, (in course o...
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City Hall Square

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Description: View through a City Hall archway of the city square, which includes a statue, a streetcar, and a decorative lamp post. Caption reads: "City Hall Square, Mi...
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Two Men in Horse-Drawn Buggy

Date: 1912
Description: Black and white photographic postcard of two men in a horse-drawn buggy parked in the middle of a unpaved street. Storefronts and pedestrians are behind th...
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Homecoming Parade

Date: 07 06 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Home Coming Parade, Racine, Wis., July 6th 09." Image of the Mitchell Motor Company float. Two very large figures made of tires and p...
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City Hall

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "City Hall, Ripon, Wis." View across public square towards a brick building with ornate exterior decorations and a bell tower with a b...
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Union Depot

Date: 08 09 1917
Description: Text on front reads: "Union Depot, Schleisingerville, Wis." A railroad station with a train on the tracks. A man with a cart is standing near the baggage c...
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Main Street South

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street South - Seymour, Wis." Men and horse-drawn vehicles in the unpaved street with storefronts on both sides. The men are wea...
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Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "St. Scene, Shawano, Wis." Horse-drawn buggies are traveling on a street lined with businesses, with pedestrians on the sidewalks. Sig...
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Post Office

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Post Office, Sheboygan, Wis." This brick structure with arched windows was built in 1892 and expanded in 1907. A larger building repl...
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Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Soldiers Grove, Wis. 1921." The main unpaved street of a small town with businesses on each side, including a barber, se...
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Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Spooner, Wis." Unpaved main street with many businesses on both sides. Automobiles and trucks are on the street or parke...
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Soo Line Depot

Date: 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Soo Line Depot, Stevens Point, Wis." The depot was built in 1918 of brick in the Prairie School style. There are pedestrians on the p...

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