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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view looking west at the front of the Oscar Mayer meat processing plant with a sign on the building which reads "Meat serves everybody". |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of some of the businesses on North Main Street, including the Strand Theater and Olk Drugs. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the central business area on Franklin Street. On the right corner is the "Fish Shanty" Restaurant and on the left is the Rexall Drugstore. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of cars parked alongside businesses on Third Street. Bassett's Drugstore is on the left side of the street. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View looking up at the Methodist Episcopal church over tree covered formations on the banks of Arkansaw Creek. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Aztalan Museum after restoration. The building, originally a church with a steeple, was built in 1852. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across street of the Al. Ringling Theater with a Studebaker pickup truck in the foreground. There is a hardware store on the right. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Map showing buildings formerly used as Ringling Brothers Circus winter quarters, along with adjoining buildings. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Front entrance to Wayland Hall, built in 1855, Wayland Junior College. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Middle College building, Beloit College. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Front view of Primitive Methodist Church, built in 1864. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Our Saviour Lutheran Church at 1 South Hancock Street, on the corner of Hancock Street and East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Single-story house with a wrap-around porch and a yard. There is a larger building on the right, and a hill is in the background. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Garden with trees and a stone fence in the backyard of Ralph Warner's home. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman is working on the backporch of Ralph Warner's home. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Ralph Warner's backyard and house. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The Cushing Memorial State Park was established in 1915 by the State and the Waukesha County Historical Society. Its grounds, formerly the Cushing family h... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of main street. There is a bridge with a stream flowing under it in the foreground. |
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