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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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TV Dealership Rarick's Hardware

Date: 12 06 1956
Description: View across street toward Rarick's Hardware, a color television dealer. A group of people are posing on the sidewalk in front of the show windows. A truck ...
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Kenosha Trolley Station

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Description: View across tracks toward the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Station. Caption reads: "C. & M. Electric Station, Kenosha, Wis."
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Business Section of Amery

Date: 1905
Description: Business section of downtown. View across unpaved road towards business along the left. A group of children and adults are posing standing in the road nea...
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Lawrence College Campus

Date: 1906
Description: View across street toward campus. Two men are standing on the sidewalk on the left. Caption reads: "Lawrence College Campus, Appleton, Wis."
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Main Street

Date: 1907
Description: View down Main Street, with a hotel on the left side and horse-drawn wagons on the unpaved street. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Main S...
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Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: Unpaved Main Street with many storefronts and a hotel on the right hand side. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Main Street, Arcadia, Wis".
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Knight Hotel

Date: 1907
Description: This building was named the Knight Block and contained retail on the first floor, business offices on the second floor and the Knight Hotel on the third, f...
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Soo Line Depot

Date: 1907
Description: Caption reads: "Soo Line Depot, Ashland, Wis." It was built in 1890 of brownstone in the Richardson Romanesque style. Pedestrians stand on the platform of ...
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Second Street, Looking East

Date: 04 30 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Second Street, Looking East, Ashland, Wis." An unpaved street with two sets of streetcar tracks in the center. Buildings, storefronts...
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St. Joseph's Hospital

Date: 1905
Description: Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Hospital, Ashland, Wis." Front facade and grounds of the four-story, red brick hospital built in 1905. The basement level is b...
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Second Street

Date: 1915
Description: Slightly elevated view of Second Street, with an automobile on the street, two sets of streetcar tracks, pedestrians on the sidewalk, and a large brick bui...
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Sauk County Courthouse

Date: 1905
Description: View towards a street corner. A dog and a man are standing in the street near a family sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. Snow is on the ground. Behind the...
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Dutchman's Creek

Date: 1909
Description: View people standing on the shoreline of Dutchman's Creek. Caption reads: "Dutchman's Creek, Green Bay, Wis."
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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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Washington Park Gazebo

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Description: Visitors around a gazebo or pavilion in Washington Park. A group of people are posing on the curved stairway on the right side of the pavilion. Caption rea...
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5th Avenue and Superior Street

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Description: Exterior view across intersection toward Ed. E. Williams' Drug Store, Langlade National Bank, and The Gismonda Soda Fountain at 5th Avenue and Superior Str...
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Wisconsin State Historical Society Building

Date: 1967
Description: Color postcard of an exterior view of the Wisconsin State Historical Society Building, now the headquarters of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Students a...

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