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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| 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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| Description: | Building with three levels, a porch and two balconies across the front of the house, a roof, and a man with a telescope in a belvedere in the center of the... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Hotel Donnelly. Men are standing and visiting on the porch. A sign on the corner reads: "Hotel & Livery." Horse-drawn vehicles... |
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| Description: | View down road of horses, wagons and buggies parked in front of buildings. Three men stand near a hotel on the right. A church building is in the backgroun... |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. Rows of shops are on either side. Carriages and carts are parked along the curb. Streetlights hang from the utility lines. A railroa... |
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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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| Description: | View down an unpaved road with shops on either side. A horse and carriage is coming down the street, and another horse and carriage is parked in front of a... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View down the dirt road of Main Street. On the left, two men are walking on the sidewalk near a store with a hand-painted "closing out sale" sign. On the r... |
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| Description: | The exterior of the Bridgeport Hotel. A man, boy, dog, and two women stand on the porch. |
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| Description: | View from street of the Merchants Hotel, located at the intersection of First and Fillmore Streets. A large group of men and women, and a puppy, are posed ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down an unpaved street. A horse and carriage is tied to a post on the left. A saloon and hotel, and the Park Hotel are located on this street on the r... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View of the facade of the Lunch Room restaurant, located near a cobblestone train platform. Earl Andrew is listed as the proprietor. |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of crowd of men, women and children, gathered for some unidentified occasion, standing in the street. There is also a group of people gathere... |
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| Description: | View from the street of John Hahn standing on the right with a horse hitched to a passenger wagon. In the center is the furniture moving wagon he owns, in ... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | The printed inscription identifies this scene, "Looking South on Main Street, Montello, Wis." A woman is standing on the sidewalk at left near a parked bug... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A real photo postcard of the two-story, wood frame Red Circle Inn. There are two women, one of whom is holding a child, on the open first floor front porch... |
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