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Mailman

Date: 07 11 1981
Description: A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood.
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Family in front of Picket Fence

Date: 1874
Description: Family in front of picket fence, with L-shaped frame house with porch and high stone foundation.
Postcard

Mill Street, Fox Lake

Date: 
Description: View of an intersection of dirt roads, with a large building, possibly an inn or apartment building on the right corner. A carriage or car is parked near t...
Postcard

North Main Street

Date: 1905
Description: View down unpaved street. Caption reads: "Residence part of North Main St."
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Hay Market

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Description: Elevated view of horse-drawn carts filled with hay and parked in rows at a market. Men stand between the rows, and houses surround the market square.
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Two Men in Carriage

Date: 1905
Description: Two men wearing hats and coats in a horse-drawn carriage on a residential street.
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Street Vendor

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Description: A street vendor with a cart on a narrow cobblestone street through a residential neighborhood of stucco houses in Havana, Cuba.
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Elmer Avenue, North

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Description: View down Elmer Avenue, taken from the middle of the street. A street car and carriage are moving along the street; the car moves away from the camera, and...
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Capron Street

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Description: View down Capron Street, a dirt road in a residential area. There is a clocktower on a building in the distance.
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Residential Street

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Description: Horses and a carriage are driven down E. Park Avenue, a dirt road in a residential area. A sign on the telephone pole identifies the intersecting street as...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1915
Description: View down street of with commercial buildings and dwellings. There are two carriages parked near a building which has part of a sign visible over the entra...
Photograph

Looking West from Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: View down Main Street. A row of houses is on the left. Horses and a buggy are stationed near a shop with a sign that reads "Schlump Brothers."
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Morterud Residence

Date: 
Description: View across road of house and yard. The house has three-stories and latticework, and a roofed porch with a bench.
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City View

Date: 
Description: Elevated city view featuring dwellings in a hilly landscape. Published by A.P. Brown & Bro.
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Quarantine Fence

Date: 1940
Description: A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had...
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Jewish Ghetto in Poland

Date: 10 1940
Description: A street in the Jewish ghetto in Lublin, Poland.
Postcard

Man with Two Wheeled Hand Cart

Date: 1920
Description: John Virnig, Sr., harness maker, grips the handle of a two wheeled hand cart as he poses on the sidewalk in a neighborhood. He is wearing a hat, shirt and ...
Photograph

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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Men Pushing Trash Cans Towards Garbage Truck

Date: 1973
Description: View from lawn in a residential neighborhood of three men pushing trash cans on hand carts towards a garbage truck. Behind the garbage truck is an Internat...
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Man Emptying Trash Barrel into Garbage Truck

Date: 1973
Description: An African-American man is dumping a barrel of trash into an International Harvester Scout with a dump body driven by another African-American man. They ar...

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