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Automobiles Wait for the Merrimac Ferry

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Description: Automobiles line up to wait for the Merrimac ferry "Colsac".
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Colsac Ferry

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Description: The Merrimac ferry loaded with automobiles. There is an American flag flying on the ferry.
Photograph

Dam and Power Station

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of dam and power station on a river. Two automobiles are parked in a lot in the lower left corner. Bluffs are in the distance.
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Reliable Models

Date: 1975
Description: Two boys wearing jackets and knit hats are riding light-colored horses in town. Behind them is a sign overhead rows of automobiles that reads: "Used Cars....
Postcard

Tourist Camp, Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 08 16 1935
Description: Photographic postcard of a tourist camp at Devil's Lake State Park. A scene of picnic tables, automobiles and tents pitched among trees and grass. Text at ...
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Tourist Camp, Devil's Lake State Park

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Description: Colorized postcard of a tourist camp at Devil's Lake State Park. Features a scene of men, women and children among picnic tables, automobiles. Tents are pi...
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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 ...
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Lake Delton Airport Hangar

Date: 04 09 1931
Description: Two men are standing in front of the Lake Delton airport hangar with a windsock on the roof. Automobiles are parked inside the hangar. On the right is a fu...
Postcard

Business Block

Date: 01 20 1917
Description: Text on front reads: "Business Block, Spring Green, Wis." An unpaved street with automobiles and horse drawn vehicles, many parked at the curb. Pedestrians...
Manuscript

Great Northern Nursery Company Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Great Northern Nursery Company, with a street view of the company office building and apple cellar. Residential buildings, trucks, automobi...
Postcard

Greetings From Devil's Lake

Date: 07 28 1933
Description: Colorized postcard in the Tall-Tale style. Two men standing on the shore are pulling a third man's leg out of a enormous fish's mouth. Two automobiles and ...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View of a street with automobiles and horse-drawn wagons parked along the curbs. There are commercial buildings on both sides of the street and a few pedes...
Photograph

Reedsburg Street Scene

Date: 1922
Description: View down center of street of a central business district. Automobiles are parked on the left, and businesses line both sides of the street. Several pedest...
Photograph

Fourth Avenue

Date: 1918
Description: View of Fourth Street.
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Berkley Chevrolet

Date: 1930
Description: The Berkley Chevrolet dealership, 224 Third Avenue, housed in a two-story brick building with Red Crown Gasoline pumps in front. Signs in the window advert...
Postcard

4th of July Parade

Date: 07 04 1915
Description: Handwriting on reverse reads: "Uncle John Doll leading 4th of July Parade in 1915." A man on a horse leads a parade of automobiles, trucks and tractors dow...
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Badger Army Ordnance Plant Housing

Date: 1945
Description: View from road of vines and flower boxes brightening an otherwise unremarkable row of barracks type housing. There is an A & P Food Store on the right, wit...
Postcard

Oak Street

Date: 1913
Description: Colorized postcard view down a street in a central business district. There is a park on the left, and storefronts with awnings on the right. A bank is on ...
Photograph

Art's Tavern

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view from street of Art's Tavern.
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Colsac Ferry with Flag

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Description: The Merrimac ferry "Colsac" with an American flag.

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