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Destruction of Old Post Office Building

Date: 1995
Description: Destruction of the old post office building.
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Men Conversing in a Diner

Date: 1969
Description: View through window of a diner of several men engaged in conversation at the counter. A neon sign in the window says, in part: "Fountain Service."
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Interior of a Bar

Date: 1969
Description: An electric Schaefer Beer sign and a television near a window are visible from the inside of a bar.
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Broken Electrical Box

Date: 1969
Description: View of a broken electrical box hanging from the side of a building with peeling paint.
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Red Hydrant

Date: 1969
Description: View of a red hydrant on a sidewalk next to a wall.
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Farrell's Cafe, Washington Heights

Date: 1968
Description: The front window of Farrell's Cafe in Washington Heights from the street. Beer advertisements for Guinness, Rheingold and Balantine hang in the window belo...
Drawing

Mailbox at the Farm

Date: 1945
Description: Black and white sketch of a mailbox on a post in a milk can, with its flag up, next to a country road. Across the road is a tree and fence, with a field an...
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Mermaid at Popeye's

Date: 08 2013
Description: View looking up at a sculpture of a mermaid hanging from an upside down kayak suspended from the ceiling. The mermaid is wearing seashells on her breasts a...
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Cappuccino

Date: 09 2013
Description: Exterior view of a neon sign hanging in the window of a coffee shop on Lakeside Street. It reads: "Cappuccino" and has a simplistic image of a coffee cup w...
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Froth House

Date: 10 2013
Description: The interior of the Froth House, a coffee shop located in the Regent Street Neighborhood. A rocking chair is sitting in a corner, with a piano on the left....
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Albert Camus in the Cafe

Date: 10 2013
Description: Low angle view of two people (faces out of frame) sitting on stools at a small square table next to a window at a cafe. Outside the window a man is riding ...
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Afternoon Jazz at the Coliseum Bar

Date: 10 2013
Description: View from behind of a crowd of men and women sitting at tables watching three musicians. One man is playing the piano, another man is playing a stand up ba...
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Dekalb County Wind Towers

Date: 11 2013
Description: View across fence-lined road towards windmills and power lines in a field. A small wire fence separates the field from the road. Farm buildings are in the ...
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Heating Plant

Date: 01 2014
Description: Two smokestacks of a power plant with clouds of exhaust being released into the sky on a cold day.
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Garage on South Park Street

Date: 04 2014
Description: View from across street of the "Park St. Garage" at 2116 Park Street. There is a parked car on the right side of the building near three garage doors. Ther...
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The Village Bar

Date: 06 2014
Description: View from automobile across an intersection towards the Village Bar at the corner of Mineral Point Road and Glenway Street. Cars are waiting at a street li...
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Civil War Tree

Date: 07 2014
Description: A large Bur Oak tree is shading a sign for Vesuvio's Little Italy restaurant on the corner of Washington and South 7th Street. Brick buildings across the s...
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Time in Mount Horeb

Date: 07 2014
Description: An elderly man and woman are sitting at a table near the front window of a coffeehouse. Just outside the window a man and woman are sitting outdoors under ...
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Malta Grain Elevator

Date: 1993
Description: A large grain elevator rising above the one-story buildings that surround it on a gravel road. A car and truck are sitting in the parking lot to Carr Eleva...
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A Farm in Ruins at the Edge of Town

Date: 1993
Description: View across field towards an old barn and silo standing above a grove of trees and bushes. In the foreground is an old agricultural implement in the overgr...

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