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Park Street and University Avenue Intersection

Date: 1900
Description: View down street, with automobiles, streetcar tracks, buildings, and pedestrians.
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Lower Main Street

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Description: View down Lower Main Street featuring shops, a horse and carriage, automobiles, and trolley tracks.
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City Hall

Date: 04 29 1921
Description: Elevated view of City Hall at intersection bustling with pedestrians, streetcars, and parked automobiles.
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Northampton Main Street

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Description: Storefronts line either side of Main Street near the Northampton National Bank, a neoclassical building. Trolleys, automobiles, and people crowd the street...
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Busy Commercial Center

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Description: View down a busy commercial downtown street featuring automobiles, cable cars, pedestrians, a restaurant, and the Hippodrome Theater which opened in 1914.
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Main Street From City Hall

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Description: View down Main Street from City Hall featuring horses and wagons, automobiles, and street cars. Stores line either side of the street.
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Hotel Pfister Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Hotel Pfister, with a three-quarter view of the building, and automobiles, a trolley car, and horse-drawn vehicles on the streets.
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Busy Milwaukee Intersection

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Description: Busy street in Milwaukee, bustling with automobiles, pedestrians, and a streetcar. Original Falk caption reads, "Photos borrowed from Milwaukee County Tran...
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Business District

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Description: View of a street in the business district featuring automobiles, a street car, and pedestrians near the German National Bank (organized in 1888) on the rig...
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Street Scene

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Description: Elevated view of Canal Street scene. Automobiles, streetcars and pedestrians are moving along the busy street. Store sign reads: "Stein-Block LAZARD'S Smar...
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City Hall

Date: 1904
Description: Elevated view looking north on N. Water Street toward City Hall. The streets are filled with automobiles and streetcars. Sidewalks are bustling with pedest...
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Grand Avenue

Date: 1917
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...
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Grand Avenue Viaduct

Date: 1938
Description: View of the Grand Avenue viaduct and surrounding establishments. A line of automobiles are parked outside a tavern under the viaduct.
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Street Scene

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Description: View across intersection down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles and horse-drawn...
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Commercial Street Scene

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Description: Elevated view of a commercial street with skyscrapers. Below are pedestrians, automobiles, and cable cars.
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Downtown Street Scene

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Description: View down center of a downtown street that is crowded with automobiles and pedestrians.
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West Wisconsin Avenue

Date: 06 01 1923
Description: Elevated view east from N. Plankinton Avenue, W. Wisconsin Avenue is bustling with automobiles, pedestrians, a cable car, and a double-decker bus. Landmark...
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City Square

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Description: Elevated view of a city square, taken at the end of the nineteenth century. People, carriages, automobiles, and streetcars are in the street. The Merchants...
Postcard

Grand Avenue

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Description: Elevated, colorized postcard view of a street in a central business district. Streetcar tracks run down the center of the street, and automobiles are drivi...
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3rd Street and North Avenue

Date: 09 25 1913
Description: Looking south on N. 3rd Street from just north of W. North Avenue. On the right is the future Rosenberg's clothing store. Automobiles are parked at the cur...

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