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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Beloit with insets of Williams Engine Works, Eclipse Wind Engine Co., and John Foster & Co. Turtle Creek is in the lower section, and the... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized image of the Fairbanks-Morse & Company buildings. |
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| Description: | Faribands, Morse & Co. Building, with power lines in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated winter view of the company buildings and residential area, with smokestacks in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the company buildings and residential area, with view of skyline. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the plant and residential area, with smokestacks. Caption reads: "Birds-eye View of Fairbanks Morse Plant, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed view of the industrial area along the Rock River. |
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| Description: | View across road, perhaps Pleasant Street, of industrial buildings. In the foreground is a drinking fountain and picnic table. Two cars are parked nearby. |
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| Description: | An electric sign for "The Manor / 2 Blocks / Dining" towers over a long, one-story building. |
| Date: | 04 16 1980 |
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| Description: | On the left the wall of a brick industrial building features a painted sign for Kades Motor Parts. In the background is a dumpster and a truck parked behin... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Five foundry workers at Fairbanks, Morse & Company, taking a break just outside the door of the building. Workers names: Solomon Deberry, Curtis Barber, tw... |
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| Description: | Memohead of Keeler Lumber & Fuel Company of Beloit, Wisconsin, a dealer in lumber and coal, with a tree stump, a pile of smoldering coal, and wisps of smok... |
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| Description: | View of Rock River from bridge, featuring Beloit Iron Works factory on the left shoreline. Caption reads: "Rock River from Central Bridge, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View down tracks towards a depot on the left, and a railroad train on the far track near a water tower on the right. Passengers are standing on the platfor... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of the Rock River with trees along the banks. There is a smokestack in the distance. Caption reads: "Rock River from Central Bri... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view through trees towards the Rock River, with a railroad bridge running across it in the distance. Beyond are factories and commercial... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the iron works and river. There is another factory on the opposite side of the river behind the trees on the right. |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of an elevated view of the Round Bridge, part of the C.M. and St. Paul R.R. A factory and dam are in the background and dwellings are on... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of an elevated view across a dam towards a factory on the Rock River. Dwellings are on the far bank on the right. Caption reads: "The Da... |
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