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Produce Market

Date: 1935
Description: Downtown outdoor market place.
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Emporium Department Store

Date: 01 18 1934
Description: Exterior of the Emporium Department Store at 15-17 North Pinckney Street, also showing Joe Tittle Meat Market, Rennebohm's drug store, and automobiles angl...
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East Main and Webster Streets

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the second block of East Main Street showing the intersection of East Main and Webster streets. Businesses include the Argus Office and th...
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International Truck Calendar

Date: 1920
Description: Calendar advertising "International Motor Trucks." Features a color illustration of men unloading crates of produce from the back of a truck in a city squa...
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Market Square

Date: 1890
Description: Polish immigrant standing near a team of horses eating hay in Market Square. He is wearing work clothes. Large brick buildings are in the background.
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Market Square

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of Polish immigrants in Market Square with horse-drawn lumber sledges and hay wagons. Commercial buildings are in the background. A sign on o...
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Haymarket Square

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Description: Elevated view of a busy Haymarket Square crowded with horse-drawn wagons.
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400 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 400 block of State Street. Businesses include: Giuseppe's Pizzeria, a record store, Meuer Photoart House,...
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Main Street

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Description: View across unpaved street of a row of stores. On the corner is the Cashton Hardware Company. A horse and wagon is parked at the curb of H. B. Bohl City Me...
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Front Street

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Description: View down Front Street of stores and shops. At the far end of the street is a group of men with horse-drawn wagons.
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Scene at Plain

Date: 1921
Description: View of men standing near a T-intersection. The three-story building on the left side of the intersection has a sandwich board advertising "Ice Cream." A m...
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State Bank

Date: 1914
Description: Corner view from unpaved street of the State Bank. A meat market is next door on the left. Flyers on the power poles are for an upcoming fair. A metal and ...
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Sextonville Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: A tree-lined street scene with a house with dandelions in the yard on the left. Two children are playing on the sidewalk in front. On the right is a school...
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Scene on Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: View down Main Street with steep, tree-covered hill in the far background. On the left a man is holding flour sacks and standing near a horse-drawn wagon l...
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Scene on Main Street

Date: 1926
Description: View from road of a service station on the left with gas pumps. Next door is a meat market, a restaurant and a bank. A man is standing in front of the serv...
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Business Section

Date: 1929
Description: View across street of a cash store on the left with a handcart near the door and automobiles parked at the curb. A gas pump is on the corner. In the backgr...
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Looking West from Barber Shop

Date: 1913
Description: View down Main Street of businesses along the right side. A young boy stands with a shovel near a pile of gravel near the barbershop, which has a barber's ...
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Farmer's Market

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Description: Elevated view of the farmer's market on East Washington Avenue near storefronts. Many horse-drawn buggies and wagons are lined up on both sides of the aven...
Postcard

Jefferson Street

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Description: View across Jefferson Street toward several storefronts and horse-drawn vehicles on the right. Near the Gustave [__]ner Harness Shop is a man seated on a w...
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Esser's City Market

Date: 1927
Description: View across street towards 116-118 N. Fairchild Street towards a row of 1920s automobiles angle parked outside Esser's City Market. To the right of the mar...

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