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| Description: | An electric streetcar in Milwaukee with a large Gimbels sign in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Grand Avenue. A number of horse-drawn carriages are lined up near a bridge. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over bridge and river looking up Grand Avenue. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles and a street car are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Daguerreotype of elevated view of Pinckney Street, looking northwest. View includes the American House and Bruen's Block, both on the corner of East Washin... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of the 200 block of State Street, northside, with Tailors and Gents Furnishers, John Ripp's Great Unloading Shoe Sale, and the Wisconsin State Capitol... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a shopping district street near a river, with several businesses lining the street, and two carriages. A building across the street has le... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The First National Bank, on the corner of North Pinckney and East Washington on the Capitol Square. Horse-drawn carriages are on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Gates Gallery, location for the first H.H. Bennett studio. |
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| Description: | View across unpaved street towards horses and buggies in a parade, with a crowd of people walking on the sidewalk in front of patriotically decorated store... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of buggies following marchers in parade though town, making a right turn from Water Street to Main Street and heading west. In the b... |
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| Description: | View down Pinckney Street to Lake Monona from East Main Street. Saint Julien Billiard Room (Fairchild Block) is in the foreground at right. Horses and carr... |
| Date: | 05 11 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Boston Store department building at W. Wisconsin Avenue and N. 4th Street. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Wisconsin Street looking south from the corner of East Water Street. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Northeast corner of the intersection, future site of the Stephenson Building. A cigar store stands on the corner, with a harness store on the left, and mo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Grand Avenue at 4th Street looking east. The Alhambra Theatre is on the left. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks, and horse-drawn vehicles are on... |
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| Description: | Shops contained on first floor of a Victorian structure, one of which belongs to a woman named Mary. Standing in front are her husband and two sons. Furthe... |
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| Description: | View across road towards a building with a sign on the building that reads: "G. Deising, Horseshoer". A number of horses are standing on the snowy road nea... |
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