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Arndt and Doty Street Intersection
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Corner of Arndt and Doty streets, showing one of the early electric street cars in Wisconsin. The tower, the bottom of which shows in the picture, was one of five high structures which mounted a group of carbon arc lights and made Fond du Lac one of the first cities in the state to have electric street lighting. The building on the corner is Reeves and Son, Druggist.
1900
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Main Street Fond du Lac with Trolley
Caption reads: "Main Street, Fond du Lac, Wis." View down street towards a cable car moving on tracks running down the right side of the street.
Main Street, Looking North
circa 1910-1919
Hand-colored view of Main Street with a streetcar and multi-colored facades. Caption reads: "Main Street, Fond du Lac, Wis."
Early Electric Power Street Car
A group of men pose near an electric power street car first used in 1832. A mule is hitched to the streetcar. Caption reads: "Electric Power Street Car, Metamoros, Mexico."
City Hall and Street Corner
1963
View of City Hall and the street corner on which it is located.
Municipal Auditorium
1900
Exterior view of the municipal auditorium, with a car parked along the curb in the street in front of it. Decorative brick and stonework enhance the facade of the structure.
Wisconsin Dells Streetcar
1910
A streetcar apparently zips along down the center of Broadway, the town's main thoroughfare. The structure with the awning (to the right of the old bank building) was occupied by Stuelke's Drug Sto...
