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C.B.&Q. Railroad Depot in Cochrane

Date: 1910
Description: Railroad depot with two sets of railroad tracks in the foreground.
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Workmen Installing Telephone Poles

Date: 
Description: Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team.
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Construction Worker Talking on Telephone

Date: 1969
Description: Construction worker talking in a telephone booth.
Photograph

Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway Depot

Date: 
Description: The first depot built in Milwaukee, it served the Milwaukee & Waukesha Railroad which became the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad and eventually the Chicag...
Photograph

I.C.U. Market and Cold Storage Building

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior of building. A large advertising sign is on the right side, behind a large smokestack. A smaller sign stating "For Rent O.J. Schenck" has been h...
Manuscript

Gay Center Picnic

Date: 1979
Description: Poster for picnic presented by the Gay Center at Vilas Park. Includes an image of a fox and telephone.
Photograph

Municipal Station

Date: 10 1980
Description: Municipal pumping station, corner of Main Street and Military Road. A telephone booth is on the right.
Photograph

Man Sits at Desk in Western Union Office

Date: 1930
Description: Leon Lamoreux sits at his desk in the Western Union office at 21 West Main Street. (This building no longer exists.) He and his wife, Beatrice, later taugh...
Photograph

Teenage Female with Cellphone

Date: 2010
Description: Teenage girl using cellphone while sitting on a bench outdoors.
Photograph

Zieggy's

Date: 09 07 2001
Description: "Zieggy's is at 933 Indiana Avenue in Sheboygan, WI. When Shirley had some medical attention at St. Lukes's Hospital, her roommate recommended Zieggy's."
Postcard

Business District

Date: 09 20 1922
Description: Photographic postcard of the business district. Sidewalk view shows pedestrians and a vehicle in the street. Telephone poles and small horsehead shaped hit...
Postcard

Main Street Looking East

Date: 08 18 1908
Description: View of Main Street looking east. Trees and telephone poles line the street next to a large two-story building. A bridge and sidewalk are in the middle-gro...
Photograph

500 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 500 block of State Street. Business include: The Towers (student apartments), Pantorium Dry Cleaners, The...
Photograph

300 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: Montgomery Ward (on North Henry Street), Colonial Shoppe E...
Photograph

700 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 700 block of State Street. Lake Street parking ramp and University of Wisconsin Extension building are vi...
Postcard

Ashland National Bank Building

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the three-story brick National Bank building.
Print

Wm. Ewig Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv...
Photograph

Texting

Date: 2012
Description: Trixie, a young woman texting while standing on the sidewalk on 7th Street. She is wearing eyeglasses, a houndstooth patterned coat with jeans, and sheepsk...
Photograph

Save the Mounds Demonstration

Date: 01 12 2016
Description: Save the Mounds demonstration around the Capitol Square against Assembly Bill 620. Two protestors hold a banner that reads: "Yo, WI-GOP-Thugs, Why Not 'Dev...
Postcard

Fish Creek

Date: 1924
Description: Street scene with a group of people gathered in front of a store with a public telephone. Caption reads: "Fish Creek, Wis."

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