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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Signs are advertising sideline businesses along a rural road. There is a large sign that reads: "For Sale Belgian Carrier Pigeons," and a smaller sign that... |
| Date: | 09 24 1960 |
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| Description: | An isolated shack that was formerly an antique dealer's store. |
| Date: | 08 29 1926 |
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| Description: | Drainage Districts of Central Wisconsin booth at Wisconsin State Fair with crops on display, and photographs around the booth above vegetables on display o... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Grain Elevator at the intersection of Highway 64 and Five Points Road in DeKalb County. |
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| Description: | Men standing on top of, and around, a train carrying tobacco. A sign on the side of each car reads, "This car contains tobacco used in making Old Virginia ... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman are sitting in a four-wheel drive, open-top International Harvester Scout. The text on the side of the truck reads: "Kurt King." The att... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of a red pylon and sign reading: "McCormick-Deering...Parts...Service...International." The red pylon is similar to that used at the company's "protot... |
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| Description: | Man standing in a booth promoting the Per-Ola Land Company. There are several Forest County grown grains and crops on display in the booth to show the boun... |
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| Description: | Advertising card for Wisconsin Central Railroad land for sale at $5 an acre. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from road of a log building with a sign reading: "Showers' Store." Automobiles are parked outside and a Shell filling pump stands near the st... |
| Date: | 10 13 1963 |
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| Description: | A large pile of used tires near a DX gasoline sign. In the background are several grain elevators, a house, and a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer sign. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a wagon train passing through the town. There are numerous covered wagons and horses, and storefronts on both sides of the road. Caption r... |
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| Description: | A view of a road and the Dickerman Store with trees and vegetation lining the road. Caption reads: "The Dickerman Store, New Canaan, Conn." |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View from road of vines and flower boxes brightening an otherwise unremarkable row of barracks type housing. There is an A & P Food Store on the right, wit... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | International Model M truck used by Terpstra & Son for garden crop shipments. Two men load the truck bed with crates for shipment of what appears to be a r... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man plowing a field with a Mogul 8-16 tractor. |
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| Description: | An auctioneer, a clerk, and a helper stand on a stage on a farm conducting an auction as potential bidders surround them. Farming equipment and other items... |
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| Description: | View of a country store in autumn. A man driving a horse-drawn wagon hauls full milkcans in the foreground and, to the right, several families are hauling ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men are sitting and standing around a McCormick mower, while a man wearing a suit and hat is standing to the left writing on a slip of paper, possibly a re... |
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