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| Date: | 05 19 1963 |
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| Description: | A Mobil gasoline service station sign is in the foreground. Across the street is a blacksmith shop. On the left is a residential home next to the blacksmit... |
| Date: | 04 17 1965 |
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| Description: | Flooded woods near the Wisconsin River. A sign for "The Dutch Kitchen" at Hotel Meyers is nailed to one of the trees. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | A cottage and trailer house community along a river. A Schlitz beer advertising is nailed to a tree and reads, "Move up to Quality / Schlitz / The Beer Tha... |
| Date: | 04 18 1965 |
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| Description: | The "Early American Country Store Farm Museum." Storefront view of an antique shop with various farm implements on its front porch. |
| Date: | 10 03 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a downtown street, altered by 20th Century Fox motion picture studio for scenes in the movie "Young Man." For filming, local people dressed the par... |
| Date: | 09 01 1962 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the factories at the corner of Thompson and Hullett Streets. A large tree grows at the curb. |
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| Description: | In the letter was the hope that you were well For shorter hours A newer coat And Grace when there was any Grace to tell |
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| Description: | When we built our house we couldn't afford it, but we built everything the best It's our fortune, and I am so very thankful A rock An ark ... |
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| Description: | For any master line drawn fine enough or spoken well let us call all professionals to wear the laurel and deck the Halls of Fame |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a hotel, with bright metal siding in full sunlight. An elderly man is seated in a chair outside. Behind the hotel on the left is what appears t... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Street view at sunrise, looking uphill towards commercial buildings. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Evening view of the Westgate Shopping Center reflected in Montgomery Ward store window at the time of opening, while the center was still partially under c... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | A man wearing headphones is sitting behind a table with the Guffawmeter. The caption reads: "Guffawmeter constructed by Paul Vanderbilt for the State Histo... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | View of a street, with shop fronts, a horse-drawn carriage, and automobiles. Several people are in the background. Caption reads: "Saxon Wis 1961. 20th Cen... |
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