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Business District Scene

Date: 1900
Description: View down street toward storefronts on either side of a dirt road in the business district. Automobiles are parked on both sides of the street, and two aut...
Photograph

Water Street, Looking North

Date: 1917
Description: View down center of the downtown business district, with several people walking on the sidewalk past storefronts. Automobiles are parked at an angle along ...
Postcard

Main Street, Looking North

Date: 1916
Description: View of the central business district of Fairwater. Horses and wagons and automobiles in the street. A hardware store is on the left. Two men are on the ri...
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Waupun City Hall

Date: 1999
Description: Exterior view of Waupun City Hall, 201 E. Main Street, built in 1928.
Postcard

Palmer House

Date: 1916
Description: Exterior view fro street towards the Palmer House. Caption reads: "Palmer House, Fond du Lac, Wis."
Postcard

Public Square

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of the public square, looking south. Caption reads: "Public Square, Ripon, Wis., Looking South."
Postcard

City Hall

Date: 1930
Description: View from street towards city hall with vehicles parked in front of it. Caption reads: "City Hall, Waupun, Wis."
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Hotel Retlaw

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Description: Exterior of the Hotel Retlaw, with cars on the street and pedestrians on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Hotel Retlaw, Fond du Lac, Wis."
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Municipal Auditorium

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the municipal auditorium, with a car parked along the curb in the street in front of it. Decorative brick and stonework enhance the facade...
Postcard

Main Street at Night

Date: 1912
Description: Caption reads: "Main St. at Night, Fond du Lac, Wis." A car is parked along the curb in the foreground with its headlights on. A theater is across the stre...
Photograph

Business District Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Two cars are parked in front of The First National Bank and a man walks down the sidewalk in front of the building. The bank is designed in an Art Deco sty...
Photograph

Bill Casper and Green Bay Packers Shanty

Date: 1998
Description: Bill Casper, of Fond du Lac, preparing to transport his iconic Green Bay Packers ice shanty to the 1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall ...
Postcard

Hotel Retlaw

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Description: Illustration of the Hotel Retlaw. Caption reads: "Hotel Retlaw, Fond du Lac, Wis." Text on reverse reads: "Hotel Retlaw Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin Walter S...
Postcard

Masonic Block

Date: 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Masonic Block, Waupun, Wis." Built of brick in 1922 in the Neoclassical style. The Masonic Lodge is above with commercial space below...
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Sanitary Refrigerator Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Sanitary Refrigerator Company of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, manufacturers of wood and steel refrigerators, with an elevated three-quarter vi...
Postcard

Parade Float

Date: 1912
Description: Several people, holding umbrellas, are riding in a car decorated with many tissue paper pom poms for a parade. There are miniature horse models on the hood...

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