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| Date: | 08 11 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Strand Theater located at 16 East Mifflin Street near the corner of Wisconsin Avenue. The marquee reads "Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the headquarters of the International Harvester Company at 180 North Michigan Avenue. The building was completed in 1937 and was located a... |
| Date: | 05 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
| Date: | 04 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Officer Frank B. Ingraham, at his beat on the corners of State, Henry, and Johnson Streets, with young school children from Holy Redeemer School. Ingraham ... |
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| Description: | The Railroad YMCA building at S. 3rd and W. Florida Streets. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | The corner of N. 5th Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue. Landmarks from left to right: Wisconsin Roof (dancing), Strand Theater, Miller High Life Spa, and the ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Espenhain's department store located on the northwest corner of N. 4th Street and W. Wisconsin Avenue. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles, ... |
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| Description: | Bloch Daneman furniture store at North 35th Street and West North Avenue, looking west along the south side of the street. |
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| Description: | The Sheridan Apartment building at 2435 W. Wisconsin Avenue. Caption on glass plate reads: "Looking southeast showing property side of street — Sheridan Ap... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre building at 7239 W. Greenfield Avenue, Grimsrud shoe store, and surrounding commercial buildings. |
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| Description: | Looking west on W. Wells Street from N. 16th Street. Automobiles are parked on both sides of the street and a large billboard advertising is in the left f... |
| Date: | 09 25 1913 |
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| Description: | The Berlin Arcade building on the northwest corner of N. 3rd Street and W. North Avenue, just before opening. For decades, it was Rosenberg's, a popular wo... |
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| Description: | Herold Newspaper building and surrounding commercial area at the southwest corner of Broadway and Mason Street. Pedestrians are crossing the street, and ho... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | N. Water Street between E. St. Paul and E. Buffalo Streets. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A man is driving a construction truck in the shadow cast by what appears to be an elevated highway. A sign for the "Brooklyn Battery Tunnel" is on one of t... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | On the left is part of a "New York State Lottery" sign, and on the right, a number of magazines are displayed, probably part of a newspaper stand. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of pedestrians crossing the street outside of Liggetts Drugstore, located in the Tenney Building on Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View from the top of a warehouse at the south end of 6th Street. There is a traffic jam on both sides of the viaduct. On the left, one man is walking on th... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from the driver's seat of an International Metro truck, showing part of the steering wheel and a city street beyond. Automobiles are parked near the c... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Men using an Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader to work on an urban street. The grader was owned by the State Paving and Construction Co. Original caption states: "G... |
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