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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down East Grand Avenue of the business district with a shoe business at the end of the street and the Hilton Hotel to the left. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Entrance marker to the museum. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of the dam and power plant over the river, with smokestacks in the background. Caption reads: "The Dam, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | View of the Hilton Hotel with a stagecoach parked near the entrance. Caption reads: "Hilton Hotel, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | An auto-trailer, an early trailer manufactured by the Highway Trailer Company of Edgerton. The company began by manufacturing trailers designed for farmer... |
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| Description: | Parking lot behind Ace Hardware. A few cars are parked, and behind them is a Dairy Queen on the right. In the center on a low hill is the support structure... |
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| Description: | A mobile home sits alone at the edge of an empty field adjacent to a septic tank and telephone pole. |
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| Description: | View across small section of road (Huebbe Parkway?) towards a mowed field. A large power or telephone tower rises above a group of trees, and more towers a... |
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| Description: | View from parking lot of cars parked in front of Al's Snack Shop. There are awnings over the entrances and two large windows with neon signs. |
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| Description: | A sign prominently displays "OPEN THANKSGIVING DAI" in the top left corner of the frame. Across Third Street behind the sign is the 88 Tavern. Down Portlan... |
| Date: | 11 18 1979 |
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| Description: | An electrical box on a wooden pole is in the center foreground. Behind it is a street, and on the other side of the street is a Phillips 66 service station... |
| Date: | 04 21 1980 |
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| Description: | Across a street leading to 51 is a parking lot with a single automobile parked in a lot near a church. Across the street to the left is a Shell gas station... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the water works, smokestack and water tower. People are lounging under the trees in front. Caption reads: "Water Works, Beloit, ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view from the street of the Goodwin block, featuring a hotel and a pharmacy. Several bicycles are parked at the curb. Caption reads: "Go... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of a square in the central business district. A cable car runs down the center of the street, and horse-drawn vehicles are parked a... |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard view of the exterior of the Post Office. A traffic light is on the corner and cars are parked along the curb. Caption reads: "Post Offic... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | View through a car windshield towards the Beloit tourist center. A family of four is walking towards the building. A phone booth is nearby on the left. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | View of the Beloit Tourism Center. Women and children are walking to and from the building. A child is drinking from an outdoor water-fountain (bubbler) on... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A boy and a girl are filling a jug of water from the water-fountain (bubbler) outside of the Beloit tourism center. |
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