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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior of ice cream parlor with a horse-drawn wagon parked on the right with sheds behind. Barrels are stacked on the porch. Signs above the porch read: ... |
| Date: | 06 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior of stone mill. An automobile of the period is parked under the front portico, and there is a wooden wing in the rear. A sign in front advertises "... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down a rainy commercial street. There is a soda/ice cream shop, garage/gas station, and undertaker. A car is parked on the side of the road. There is ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down road of mixed residential and commercial area after a rain. A group of men, women, and children stand on the front steps of a brick building. |
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| Description: | Matthew Witt's photo studio on Main Street. His business was there for 50 years, from 1913 to 1963. Two men are sitting on the stoop in the doorway. The bu... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Matthew Witt's Photography Studio. A woman is barely visible standing in the doorway, under the awning. Framed photographs are on display ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of men standing with a horse and wagon. Shown (L-R) Otto Petersilie, unknown, unknown, unknown, Joseph F. Faust, unknown, Charles J. Faust. The wag... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of unidentified men standing with a horse and wagon. The wagon is carrying a barrel of beer. The sign on the building in the background is an adver... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Front three-quarter view of large frame residence with porch and balcony. Steps with a barber pole at the top of the railing lead to a store window at foun... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of view across muddy road of a man wearing a suit and standing on the porch of the two-story Hotel and Feed Barn. Two signs next to h... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of Bowar Bros. Hardware Store. The awning reads, "Hardware, Bowar Bros., Implements, Auto Supplies." Over the large door on the left ... |
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| Description: | View across road of D.A. Meister's Garage, with a fire truck parked in front and an automobile parked at the curb on the right. One boy is sitting on the f... |
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| Description: | Undertaker's funeral parlor and other buildings along a dirt street with a sidewalk. An oblong sign attached to the balcony hangs over the sidewalk and rea... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of St. Martin's Lutheran Church. Dedicated 1886; used continuously until 1973. |
| Date: | 02 22 2012 |
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| Description: | View down center of street towards downtown Cross Plains. Shelton's Bar & Grill is on the left. On the right is the True Value Hardware store. |
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