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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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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...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1905
Description: Caption reads: "Main Street, Black River Falls, Wis." View up Main Street, with people walking along the sidewalks, and automobiles parked along the curb.
Photograph

Rice Lake

Date: 1905
Description: View across street towards a long row of automobiles parked on the left side at an angle along the curb in front of storefronts.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Family Driving

Date: 1903
Description: George S. Parker and family seated in their car, one of the first automobiles in Janesville. Behind them is a couple in another car.
Postcard

Sauk City

Date: 1907
Description: Faint handwriting across foot reads: "Sauk City, Wis." A group of people and their automobiles are posing in the unpaved road. An arched structure of some ...
Book or Pamphlet

Pabst Grand Circle

Date: 1907
Description: Exterior view of the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel and Majestic Theater. Streetcars, automobiles, carriages, horses and pedestrians line the streets. The marqui...
Postcard

Outagamie County Fair

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Seymour Fair 1907." The grandstand at a fair is full of spectators, with horses, buggies and automobiles parked on the infield in the...
Photograph

Bustling Street Scene

Date: 1905
Description: Busy street with automobiles, pedestrians and a horse-drawn cart. Streetcar tracks are in the center of the street. Business signs read: "W.A. Gill Co.," "...
Postcard

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...
Postcard

Williams Block

Date: 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Williams Block. Shiocton, Wis." Slightly elevated view of street and commercial buildings. Two automobiles are driving past storefron...
Postcard

Hotel Kegonsa, Main Street

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Hotel Kegonsa. Main Street, Stoughton, Wis." View down a street lined with businesses. Automobiles are on the street and pedestrians ...
Photograph

Downtown Street in Cameron

Date: 1905
Description: Downtown street in Cameron, with buildings with awnings over the show windows, including Holmen Bros. Clothing store, Gent's Furnishings, and A. Haverstad'...
Postcard

Beloit Hospital

Date: 1905
Description: Beloit Hospital. Caption reads: "Beloit Hospital, Beloit, Wis."
Postcard

First St. North, City Library, Baker St.

Date: 1908
Description: View of an intersection in central Grand Rapids. Identified are: First Street on the left, the city library in the center, and Baker Street on the right. A...
Photograph

Methodist Church

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Dodgeville Methodist Church, with a car parked in front.
Postcard

Superior Hotel

Date: 1909
Description: View across street toward the Superior Hotel on a street corner. Caption reads: "Superior Hotel, Superior, Wis."
Photograph

Indian Agency House

Date: 1900
Description: Indian Agency House before restoration.
Postcard

Park Hotel

Date: 1905
Description: View across intersection towards the Park Hotel, located on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Park Hotel, Madison, Wis."

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