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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a construction worker wearing safety goggles on the back of his yellow hard hat. In the background is the steel framework of one of the towers... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of hotel. On the lower right above the entrance is a sign for the Empire Room. Automobiles are parked on the street. A flag pole without a fl... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Schroeder Hotel, with automobiles parked on street and pedestrians in front of entrance. Caption reads: "Hotel • Shroeder • Milwaukee • Wis." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Looking down Grand Avenue to the east. The road is lined with automobiles, and cable car tracks are on the snow-covered street. A sign for Gimbel's is on t... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Looking south from Oneida Street bridge at night. Caption reads: "Looking South from Oneida St. Bridge, Milwaukee. (At Night.)" |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Numerous cars driving on what appears to be the Michigan Avenue Bridge (later renamed DuSable Bridge) in front of the Wrigley and Tribune buildings. There ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Men using a Number 3/2 Adams Motor Grader for road construction on Pine Street in Philadelphia. A laundry store is on the corner. |
| Date: | 12 01 1937 |
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| Description: | A man parking an International D-30 dump truck used by the Bureau of Sewers near a river or harbor. On the opposite shore in the background are buildings, ... |
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| Description: | An unidentified cityscape as viewed from an open window in a skyscraper. Cars, buses, and other skyscrapers are visible below. |
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| Description: | Looking east on Wisconsin Avenue at Water Steet with cars and pedestrians. Streetcars are running up and down the middle of the wide street. Skyscrapers an... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Industrial artist's illustration of an International bus in an urban setting. High-rise buildings are in the background and men and women passengers ride i... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man parks an International L-130 truck owned by the General Tire Company next to the Motor Supply Company building. Two large tires are loaded onto the b... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the city of Chicago. Featuring the artist Leslie Ragan, the poster depicts the buildin... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Fifth Avenue in New York as "The World's Greatest Shopping Street," and to get there by way of the train. The poster depic... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Virginia Historical Pageant, held in Richmond, VA, May 22-28, 1922. Featuring the Henry Day Lowry Metropolit... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Gothic revival style Trinity church Wall Street and adjacent cemetery. Modern skyscrapers are in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Michigan Boulevard looking North, in downtown. In the foreground are the roofs of smaller buildings, street traffic and pedestrians on the... |
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| Description: | View down a street between high-rise buildings in the Board of Trade District. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The front and back of a postcard featuring a drawing of the Detroit skyline as seen from Windsor, Ontario that was sent by Alice and Floyd Quinney during t... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | View of Manhattan from the Staten Island Ferry, with a couple standing in the foreground. The woman is wearing a leopard print coat, and seagulls wheel in ... |
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