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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two buildings, and what appears to be a stable, along a snow-covered road. The larger building has a sign that says "Hotel." |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | High school graduation portrait of Lorin Gillett. He is wearing a graduation gown and mortarboard. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Gillett with their German Shepherd, Monday. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young Lorin Gillett sitting on a stool. |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of construction of the New Free bridge. Men work on and below the wooden bridge, which is partially constructed. A crane is on the bri... |
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| Description: | View from road of a brick building under construction. Five men are posed in front near a pile of bricks. Four men are posed in the window openings on the ... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena. |
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| Description: | An engraving based on a drawing by Alexander Simplot of the Platteville Brewery (spelled Plattville). It is an elevated perspective showing the main buildi... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down middle of Main Street. The right side of the street features: Bloomington State Bank, Ira Fox Meat Market, C.H. Enke, Sprague's Recreation Parlor... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View down a commercial street. An International truck is parked in the foreground on the left, and on the corner on the right is the Red Crown Gasoline sta... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | View across street of five men posing on the sidewalk outside the State Bank. Next door to the bank, on the left, is the City Meat Market. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Men, possibly postal workers, standing on the front steps of the local post office with crates and barrels in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. Osward's restaurant is on the far left. The post office and a plumbing shop are on the right. |
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| Description: | Exterior of a feed mill erected About 1840. There is an advertisement for Quaker Ful-O-Pep feed above the entrance. Two pickup trucks are parked outside. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The back lot of a row of factories. Alongside the buildings, there are piles of raw materials, lumber slabs, carts, and a parked car. |
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| Description: | Ruins of an old furnace. There is a pile of stones and the remains of a wheel. In the background is a hill with trees. |
| Date: | 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Texaco gas station on the left and cars parked on the road next to buildings in downtown Beetown. The road is rutted and muddy with puddles. Several signs ... |
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| Description: | View across road of creamery building. Male workers are standing near the entrance on the left in front of a sign that says "Patch Grove Creamery." On the ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down street of the central business district. There is a furniture store on the left, a general store and service garage on the right and a drugstore ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Gillett children, left to right: Sherry (b. 1913), Lorin (b. 1915), and Harry (b. 1910). |
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