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Woman Pumping Gas

Date: 09 2008
Description: A blond-haired woman in a dress pumps gas.
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Young Women at Gas Station

Date: 2008
Description: Two young women and an infant in a stroller posing for a picture at a gas station. One woma has her arm around the other woman.
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Log Cabin Filling Station

Date: 1927
Description: Rustic, log cabin gas station in Chippewa Falls with a traveler's vehicle being filled with gasoline. It is not clear if the young woman in overalls is a p...
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Upside Down Smile Sign

Date: 1959
Description: Filling station sign reading: "smile," purposely put upside down. A young woman is bending over to read it.
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People Fishing

Date: 09 15 1962
Description: A group of men, women and children fish from a dock located on the Fox River. In the background are commercial buildings along the shoreline.
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Street Scene After a Sleet Storm

Date: 01 1950
Description: View of the 110 block of West Doty Street after a sleet storm. Cars are parked at the meters on the curb and a woman stands next to a car. The Baskerville ...
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Sinclair Service Station

Date: 1938
Description: Three uniformed employees of the Sinclair Oil Company Service Station, located at 501 East Broadway, standing in front of the station's gas pumps. Two life...
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Clam Lake

Date: 1935
Description: Elevated view across road of people and automobiles in front of homes and businesses along a dirt road. In the background is a local grocery store, tavern ...
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Walker's Family Restaurant

Date: 01 04 2002
Description: "On this first Friday in the new year we visit Walker's Family Restaurant, 813 Park Avenue, Beaver Dam, WI."
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Harvey Bogenschneider Service Station

Date: 02 09 1978
Description: "Harvey Bogenschneider Service Station. Two days before the impending auction, Bob, Harvey, & Dennis Bogenschneider, with help of Lisa Graf, ready items fo...
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Packard Auto

Date: 1931
Description: Two employees of Packard Auto in front of the service department office with a parked automobile.
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Sauk City Main Street

Date: 1924
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left is a soda shop/confectioner, with two women and a baby carriage on the sidewalk in front. Further down is a ch...
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Flooding at Nakoma Bus Stop

Date: 03 13 1950
Description: A woman is standing at a bus stop at the end of Monroe Street, the entrance to Nakoma, where puddles from melting snow cause water from passing traffic to ...
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Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: View down street towards a garage with a gas pump on the left. There is a man standing by a parked car. Two women and a boy are standing near a parked car ...
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Riverside Cabin Camp

Date: 1930
Description: A view of a camp with a row of small cabins on the left. Automobiles parked between the last three. Some people standing in the driveway -- a man with a ba...
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Storm Damage with Trailers

Date: 07 08 1951
Description: Four people are in the foreground overlooking two storm damaged large trailer homes, one piled on top of another. They and the trailers are at Elver Traile...
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Street Scene

Date: 1927
Description: View down street towards a brick building with a balcony on the corner. A man stands near gas pumps and a lamppost and a woman is crossing the street. A ca...
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Street Scene

Date: 1929
Description: View down road, with railroad tracks in the foreground. On the left is an automobile repair shop with two cars parked near the gas pumps. A man is standing...
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Prospect Avenue

Date: 1924
Description: View down Prospect Avenue, with men sitting on a bench by the "Steponet" gas pumps in front of a storefront. A man stands on the sidewalk in front of the b...
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Street Scene

Date: 1926
Description: View across street towards the Honeysett Oil Co. Filling Station, which is a two-story brick building. A woman and two children are on the stoop of a house...

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