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Kleinstueber Machine Shop

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Description: Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F...
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Street Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Small town business district with a group of men and women posed on the board sidewalk on the right. Another group of men and boys are on and around a trac...
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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.
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Family in front of Hans Kjorstad Residence

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Description: View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m...
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Woman and Girl in Buggy

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a woman and girl posing in a buggy pulled by a horse. Eckern's Store is in the right background.
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Man with Three Children

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Description: Man pulling a baby in a wagon with a girl holding onto the baby, followed by a boy riding a tricycle.
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Kleinsteuber Machine Shop

Date: 1880
Description: It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th...
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Berwick-Nescopeck Bridge

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Description: The Nescopeck view down the Berwick-Nescopeck Bridge showing pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage.
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Luva Street Scene

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Description: View down Luva Street in San Juan Puerto Rico. Oxen carry a large cart down a narrow street, while people move along the sidewalks.
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Looking South from Bloom City

Date: 1909
Description: A group of five men, one holding a child, pose outside a store. A carriage is parked at the curb.
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Main Street

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Description: A posed group of townspeople stand outside storefronts on Main Street.
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Street Scene

Date: 1905
Description: View down a street filled with pedestrians who walk by stores and small businesses.
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Street Scene, Idaho Springs, Colorado

Date: 1910
Description: View down a street crowded with pedestrians and horse-drawn carts. Published by E.J. Deis.
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First Avenue

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Description: View of First Avenue, the main street in town. Stores, restaurants, and lodging houses stand on either side of the street. Snow-covered mountains rise in t...
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Street Scene

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Description: People ride on horseback and in carriages down a dirt road. A long adobe building can be seen on the left.
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Jewish Ghetto in Poland

Date: 10 1940
Description: A street in the Jewish ghetto in Lublin, Poland.
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Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Wood carts and drivers on a street in Sarajevo, about a year before the city fell to the Germans.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad Station

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Description: View across railroad tracks of group of children awaiting the arrival of a train outside Lehigh Valley Railroad Station.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Roddy

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Description: Elevated view of group of people at a livery. A man and woman, possibly Mr. And Mrs. William Roddy, are posed sitting in a buggy pulled by two horses in fr...
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Fitchburg Depot

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Description: A man and three boys are posing while standing on a handcar at the Fitchburg depot. In the background a man is standing near a horse-drawn wagon.

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