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Traveling Medicine Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic.
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Child in a Shopping Cart

Date: 01 27 1956
Description: Child in a shopping cart with a frozen Armour smoked ham.
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Grocery Shopping

Date: 1950
Description: A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter.
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Stage in front of Coon Valley Store

Date: 1892
Description: Caption: "Stage driven by William C. Alden stopping in front of Coon Valley store on the route between Viroqua to Muscoda and La Crosse. Alden drove the st...
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Men and Boys in front of Implement Dealer

Date: 1900
Description: A group of farmers and young children posing on a wooden platform or boardwalk in front of a farm implement dealership building, along with a horse-drawn m...
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Parade of Wagons Picking Up New McCormick Machinery

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Description: Elevated view of a parade of farmers and young children with horse-drawn wagons picking up their new McCormick machinery. They are parked along a rural dir...
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Family with Carriage

Date: 1870
Description: A carriage and a family stand in front of a picket fence in front of an unpainted Greek Revival frame house. Attached to the house is a storefront. Althoug...
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J. Green and Co. Store

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view of the J. Green & Co. store, a frame building with a false front and a third story fan window. Men with farm implements stand nearby with hor...
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Shoppers in Grocery Store

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: Two grocery store employees placing Dean's Milk in grocery cart for a woman and her two children.
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Ilena Frerker Shopping at Grocery Store

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: Ilena Fierker and her children, Bobby and Dicky, buying Dean's Milk from Clarence O. Furset, manager of Piggly Wiggly Food Center, 2701 University Avenue.
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Children Parading on Memorial Day

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Description: Parade of children in procession on the board sidewalk in front of J.A. Eckern's store, probably Memorial Day.
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Street Scene

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Description: Group of men and children standing in the middle of the unpaved street. On the left are storefronts, and in the far distance is a church and tree-lined rid...
Postcard

Hotel Carley

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Description: Photographic postcard view of the Hotel Carley. Two women are sitting on the far left steps of the hotel. One man is sitting in a chair near the entrance, ...
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Depot Street

Date: 1900
Description: View down unpaved Depot Street. Men and children can be seen outside Watkins Drug Company.
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Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: View down a busy street with horse-drawn carriages and trolley cars.
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Two Buggies Parked in front of Storefront

Date: 10 1906
Description: Two buggies are sitting parked in from of "E.P. Phillips Coal Wood & Machinery" store, possibly an International Harvester dealership. The first buggy is p...
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Jordan's Super Market

Date: 01 02 1958
Description: A woman pushes a child in a shopping cart while at Jordan's Super Market.
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Red Mound Street Scene

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Description: View across street of a general store on the right, and another business on the left. Two men and a dog pose in front of the general store. A horse and bug...
Postcard

East Side Square

Date: 08 25 1911
Description: Caption reads: "East Side Square, Monroe, Wis." Elevated view of people walking on the sidewalks and in the street, and a horse and buggy driving by on the...

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