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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue looking west, with the RKO Riverside Theatre on the right, and a large Christmas sign on the corner of a building on th... |
| Date: | 12 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Neon lights up Wisconsin Avenue on a winter night in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 12 03 1915 |
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| Description: | Car coming down a rural dirt road. Caption reads: "A view on Houston and Oklona Pike. Chickasaw Co. has over 100 miles of fine pikes and building more." A ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man sitting behind the wheel of an International Model F truck parked on a city street in front of the Blackstone Theatre. The truck was owned by a Firesto... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four lanes of cars arriving at the Wisconsin State Fair's Main Gate. They are being directed by parking lot attendants. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved road lines with trees towards a car that is approaching from a distance at Houston and Oklona Pike. There is a Coca-Cola advertisement on... |
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| Description: | A sign prominently displays "OPEN THANKSGIVING DAI" in the top left corner of the frame. Across Third Street behind the sign is the 88 Tavern. Down Portlan... |
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| Description: | View toward a boy with his bicycle at the entrance to Putnam Hill Park on the left. There are telephone poles and trees in the center, street railroad trac... |
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| Description: | Street scene with parked and moving vehicles. Buildings are along the left side and a line of trees and lampposts is along the right. |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | A man stops his automobile at a railroad crossing while waiting for the train to cross a paved road. The traffic sign to the right of the car reads: "Railr... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View of a man driving an automobile on a dirt road in Ableman. Rock formations are on both sides of the road, and rocks and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 11 24 2000 |
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| Description: | "On this Friday we are at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Fond du Lac, WI." |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View down middle of road of car driving across a bridge over Sugar River. Another car is parked by the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View down middle of street. On the left a man and two children stand near a truck parked in the driveway of a service station. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down street with cars parked along the curb. There is a team of horses with a carriage on the right. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down retail street. Cars are parked along the curbs. The stores include: Victrola's dealer, a cafe, a recreation parlor, a restaurant, a clothing stor... |
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| Description: | View down road of entrance of bridge. A car is driving towards the viewer. Signs at the bridge entrance read: "Parking on the Bridge is Prohibited," "Wisco... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A car, full of young adults, driving down the unpaved road. Another car is parked in the driveway of an automotive repair shop. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across street of children on the sidewalk outside the Coon Valley State Bank. At the end of the street, there is an automotive repair station. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | This early road map shows the system of roads in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northeastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, and the western portion of Michig... |
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