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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. James Gorman, standing, has a pipe in his mouth; the seated man holding a guitar is un... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of soda fountain and confectionary, part of Wilson's Drugstore. Caption reads: "Wilson's Drugstore, Corpus Christi, Texas." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of various businesses on unpaved Main Street, including a drug store on the right side. Caption reads: "Main Street, Grantsburg, Wis." |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View of businesses located on the south end of Main Street including The Hotel Erving, a shoe store, Utter Drug Company, a dentist, Graham Awning Co., and ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a row of businesses on Fourth Avenue, including Warren Cafe, Wang's Rexall Drug Store, Wisconsin Power & Light, a restaurant, an... |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Exhibit of the Champion Chemical Company promoting their embalming fluids. Also presented in the exhibit are caskets and clothing to dress the dead. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A view of Main street, looking east from Fourth Street. It is interesting to note that "The Largest Whiskey House" saloon is located next door to a drug st... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the stately Avalon Hotel. A drugstore occupied some of the space on the first floor. Caption reads: "Avalon Hotel, Waukesha, Wis." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A souvenir postcard from the 1935 National Model Airplane Championship that featured illustrations of racing planes powered by Shell aviation gasoline such... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of mail carrier Michael P. Adler, with his mailbag, an armful of mail, and a parcel. He is standing in front of a painted backd... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the railroad curve near Whitefish Bay resort. Caption reads: "The Curve near Whitefish Bay Resort." |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Old Mission Inn on shoreline of Lake Superior, taken from end of dock. The Old Mission Inn was razed in 1965. |
| Date: | 12 25 1934 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard featuring a photograph of Stephen Chilton and Clara Medhurst Willingham Chilton, grandparents of Aunt Clara Bewick Colby. |
| Date: | 04 24 1910 |
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| Description: | The Hoo Hoo Club Hotel, a lumbermen's social organization. Two men are standing near a man driving a sled carrying milk cans pulled by two horses in front ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View toward the hotel on a street corner. A large sign on top of the hotel reads: "Hotel Backbone." Caption reads: "Hotel Backbone, Antigo, Wis." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down towards the Fox river. Caption reads: "Fox River Water Power, Appleton, Wis." |
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| Description: | Elevated view across river toward the power plant, along with a bridge, trees, and smokestacks. Caption reads: "Water Power, Fox River, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from hill towards the river, paper mill, and houses on a hill in the distance. Caption reads: "View of Fox River from Riverview Golf Club, Appleton, W... |
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