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Decorated International Heavy-Duty Coal Truck

Date: 1929
Description: International heavy-duty coal truck owned by Pocahontas Coal Company decorated. Placard on truck reads: "International motor truck. All steel shapes, plate...
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Chi Phi House Homecoming Decorations

Date: 10 18 1930
Description: Chi Phi House, 200 Langdon Street, with the facade decorated as a theater with a marquee for homecoming. "See the Badgers in 'Smashing Pennsylvania.'" 1st ...
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Christmas House Decoration Winner

Date: 12 22 1956
Description: Home of Norman and Ruth Bass, 4216 Mandrake Road, winner of the Christmas outdoor home lighting contest.
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Royal Theater

Date: 1913
Description: View across street of the exterior of the Royal Theater, 407 Atwood Avenue (address now 2142 Atwood). Designed by Ferdinand Kronenberg (?) Building remode...
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Residential Street

Date: 1910
Description: A view of the West Atwood Street residential district featuring a Victorian house with scalloped shingles and a turret. Many trees shade the street that st...
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Five Points

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Description: The 7th and Lehman Streets intersection with a horse-drawn delivery carriage and a drugstore on the corner. Caption reads: "Five Points * 7th and Lehman St...
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Street Scene with the Public Library

Date: 1900
Description: View across intersection toward the library on the left, and houses behind a tree-lined sidewalk on the right.
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West Main Street

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Description: View down West Main Street, a narrow road lined with closely-set homes. The Studley House stands at right, built around 1850 as the Captain Tristram P. Ri...
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Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: View down a street in a residential area.
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Park and Grove Avenues

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Description: An automobile parks outside residences at the intersection of Park and Grove Avenues. Published by J. Zvirin's News Store.
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Corsa Terrace

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Description: View of Corsa Terrace. A man and young child stand on the lawn outside of one of the homes that line the residential street.
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Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street with residences set back from the street.
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Fourth Avenue

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Description: View down Fourth Avenue, lined with a row of high Victorian style rooming houses.
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Fifteenth Street

Date: 1912
Description: View down Fifteenth Street. An automobile is parked outside an elaborate mansion.
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South A Street

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Description: View of South A Street, a residential area. Published by W.H. McQuiston & Son.
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Dougherty Flats

Date: 1918
Description: View of Dougherty Flats, a row of apartment houses and homes.
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Broadway at Twenty-Fourth Street

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Description: View down Broadway at Twenty-fourth Street. A row of residences features lavish facades and palm trees.
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Residence of George H. Large Family

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Description: Exterior of the home of the George H. Large family, an elaborate, neo-classical residence featuring an ionic colonnaded porch. An archway near the sidewal...
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Christmas Parties

Date: 11 20 1954
Description: Beverly Slauson and Paul Gesiler sit with a large Santa Claus balloon during the Nakoma Welfare League dancing party for young people of the area.
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Four Boys in Costumes

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Description: Four boys dressed in Indian costumes sit in a row on the concrete steps to a large porch of a house. A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch on t...

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