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Children Racing "Automobiles"

Date: 1957
Description: Small boys on cement track racing small battery-powered “automobiles” around a curve.
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Damaged Automobiles at Accident Site

Date: 04 15 1934
Description: Damaged automobiles of Leo Maly and August Steinhagen at scene of accident at Middleton Junction Road. Leo Maly was killed, his wife, Edna, and son, Paul, ...
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Street Scene, Hubertus

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Description: View of a dirt road leading through a small town. Automobiles parked on the left. A horse and wagon on the right. Caption reads: "Street Scene, Hubertus, W...
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Horse-Drawn Circus Wagons

Date: 08 05 1927
Description: View down street towards a parade of horse-drawn circus wagons coming up the street. People are watching from the sidewalks. Automobiles are parked along t...
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Automobiles Parked Along Rural Road

Date: 1918
Description: Automobiles, including a Ford runabout, parked along a rural dirt road for an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department short course and ma...
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Brook Trout Distribution

Date: 1921
Description: Elevated view of automobiles and trucks gathered in connection with the distribution of brook trout fish. The “milk” cans in sight presumably contain finge...
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Carnegie Library

Date: 1937
Description: View of Carnegie Library on the corner of South Main Street and West Messenger, Rice Lake. Pedestrians are crossing the street, automobiles are parked alon...
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Street Scene

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Description: View down Hill Street. An automobile is crossing an intersection while other automobiles are parked along the curbs. The Green Lake County Courthouse, buil...
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Automobile Stunt

Date: 08 04 1933
Description: Arthur Santell is pulling three Pontiac automobiles, each with a man on the running board, with his teeth in front of General Auto Service and Henry Motor ...
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Outagamie County Fair

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Seymour Fair 1907." Elevated view of fairgoers at the grounds with horses, buggies and automobiles. An exhibit building is on the lef...
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Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View of the central business district, with unidentified businesses, some with false fronts. Automobiles and a truck are parked along the sidewalk. A man a...
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Firemen's Parade

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of motorized fire trucks, horse-drawn fire trucks, automobiles and water wagons gathered on East Washington Avenue. All the vehicles are acco...
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Main Street

Date: 1932
Description: Caption reads: Main Street, Soldiers Grove, Wis." The main street of a small town with businesses on each side. Automobiles and trucks are parked at the cu...
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State Bank

Date: 04 29 1914
Description: Caption reads: "State Bank. Unity, Wis." A large group of children and adults pose in front of the Unity State Bank, some seated in two automobiles. Signs ...
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Vehicles Parked at Agricultural Instruction Meeting

Date: 1915
Description: View down road of horses with horse-drawn carriages parked on the left near what appears to be a park. On the right automobiles are parked along near comme...
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80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: View of field full of parked automobiles at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Swiss Colony at New Glarus. A log structure in...
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Alabama Black Community

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Description: Stilted houses on a block of an African American community in Alabama.
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Kid's Car

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Description: Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, in his motorized two-seat toy car.
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Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: View down a street in a residential area.
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Vel Phillips Helping Child in Street

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Description: View down street towards Vel Phillips, who is crouching down near the curb at an intersection helping a child laying in the street. Her handbag is next to ...

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