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Wisconsin Avenue

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Description: Street with retail shops, and automobiles along the avenue. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Ave., Oconomowoc, Wis." Some of the signs on the commercial buildings...
Postcard

Main Street

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Description: View down center of Main Street (part of Hwy 16). Automobiles are parked at an angle along the curbs on both sides. Businesses include two grocers, a drug ...
Postcard

Main Business Section

Date: 1940
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Business Section, Waukesha, Wis." A busy street scene with pedestrians, automobiles and buses. A railroad track runs down the ce...
Painting

Main Street

Date: 1938
Description: View of Main Street, looking north on Gasper Street.
Photograph

Cooper House

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Description: View of the "Old Cooper House" from the street.
Postcard

National Exchange Bank

Date: 1921
Description: Text on front reads: "National Exchange Bank, Waukesha, Wis." Built in 1921 in the Neoclassical style. Located on West Main Street between other brick and ...
Print

Square on Street Corner

Date: 1915
Description: View of street corner includes shops, cars parked on street, and two people.
Photograph

Aerial View of Waukesha Works

Date: 1948
Description: Aerial view of Waukesha Works, a foundry.
Photograph

Hawks Tavern

Date: 1930
Description: A car is parked in front of Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with trees, a street sign and power lines.
Photograph

Oconomowoc Public Library

Date: 1928
Description: Exterior view of the Oconomowoc Public Library, located in both the half-timbered building (formerly the fire house) and the next building, with a museum o...
Postcard

Lover's Lane

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Description: View down a long dirt road. In the distance the road passes under a railroad bridge near a church with a cemetery. Caption reads: "Lover's Lane, Mapleton, ...
Photograph

Street Scene, Biplane Superimposed

Date: 1910
Description: Street in Genesee Depot, with superimposed biplane flying low overhead.
Postcard

Rear View, Marianum

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Description: Colorized view of the back of the Marianum Convent. An automobile is parked in the drive. Caption reads: "Rear View, Marianum, Elm Grove, Wis."
Postcard

State Bank

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Description: Black and white photographic postcard view of the exterior of the State Bank. A Model T is parked in the grass terrace in front of the bank. Caption reads:...
Postcard

Milwaukee Street

Date: 1950
Description: Black and white photographic postcard of Milwaukee Street, with storefronts, parked cars and a small monument in the middle of the street. Caption reads: "...
Postcard

Scene at Eagle, Wis.

Date: 1945
Description: Crossroads with Hwy 67 straight ahead; the road on the left goes toward Rte. 59 and Oconomowoc. The right turn goes towards Mukwonago. Power lines are over...
Photograph

Railroad Depot

Date: 11 1941
Description: View across railroad tracks of the Wisconsin Central Railroad depot at Sussex (formerly known as Templeton). Two cars are parked near the depot and a bagga...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1945
Description: Diagonal view across Hwy 99 going through Eagle, Wisconsin. Probably Jericho Street, but unmarked. Cars are parked at an angle in front of storefronts lini...
Photograph

Muskego Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: In the early 1920s, Prussian immigrant John Bosch constructed a simple, rectangular brick service garage with a canted corner at a prime location: the inte...
Photograph

Group Near Circus Wagon

Date: 1963
Description: A group of men and women look on as a parade of circus wagons passes through downtown streets, carried on the beds of International trucks. The 25-piece pa...

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