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Real Estate Values Sign

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Description: A sign in Nakoma detailing real estate values, which reads "If you are going to build, note these facts..."
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Roadside Sales Pitch

Date: 1924
Description: Signs are advertising sideline businesses along a rural road. There is a large sign that reads: "For Sale Belgian Carrier Pigeons," and a smaller sign that...
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Diamond Kitty of the Shrine Circus

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Description: "Diamond Kitty," a performer with the Shrine Circus, poses with a large group of people in front of the sideshow tent housing the "World's Fattest People" ...
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Philip La Follette with Pea Week Display

Date: 1938
Description: Governor Phil La Follette with a display promoting Wisconsin peas.
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Commercial Buildings

Date: 1945
Description: View down side of railroad tracks towards commercial buildings. Two advertisements are painted on the side of the large brick building in the foreground.

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