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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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| Description: | A woman is being waited on by a man standing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods are stacked on shelves along the wall behind the counter. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Governor Phil La Follette with a display promoting Wisconsin peas. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Civil Conservation Camp (CCC), tentatively identified as the Bloomington camp. |
| Date: | 08 1945 |
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| Description: | The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Trackless Train" turning onto North Carroll Street from West Mifflin Street. The "Trackless Train" was on a tour from New York to ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 11 19 1927 |
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| Description: | Young woman sitting at a typewriter, presumably a staff employee, in the office of the Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View towards a woman standing at the meat counter of the Madison Packing Company. She is buying chickens from a man standing behind the counter which has a... |
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