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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians in shopping district. Cars are parked and a streetcar is coming down the street. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. There is large librarian's desk, with a bust of Abraham Lincoln to the right. Behind the desk are two colum... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. Among the room are reading tables, bentwood chairs, light fixtures hanging from the tall ceiling, and two c... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. There are several display cases filled with taxidermy, including a pelican, and coral. There is a deer head... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. The library opened in 1903 and was funded by Andrew Carnegie at $30,000 and Eldred at $10,000. The reverse ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. The reverse of the cardboard backing reads: "IV Waterbirds, Ducks, Gulls, Pelican." A second note reads: "C... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. The library opened in 1903 and was funded by Andrew Carnegie at $30,000 and Eldred at $10,000. The reverse ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Photographic calling card of Colonel Edwin O. Kimberly. During the Civil War he was in the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry. It is noted on the card that he was the ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Union veterans, some holding a banner reading "Iron Brigade," marching on a downtown street in a parade during a state encampment. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and women at a Civil War reunion posed on the steps in front of a building. Those identified are 4) C. W. Sackett of Beloit 5) Herman... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Right side view of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 632. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Harry Garbutt of Janesville, Wisconsin, a wholesale lumber representative for the Daniel Shaw Lumber Company, with a box listing the types of... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Champion Buckle of Janesville, Wisconsin, a buckle manufacturer, with an image of leather strapping fastened with a buckle. Various buckles a... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Parker Pen Company, with a three-quarter view of the company building, with people walking on the sidewalk, and a streetcar, automobiles,... |
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| Description: | An ink and water color on paper, hand-drawn map showing the section divisions in the southern half of the Janesville Township (Township 3 North, Range 12 E... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Map covers area between the cities of Janesville and Kenosha in Rock, Walworth, and Kenosha counties for railroad routes. Lakes and counties are labelled. ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Small group of elderly men, two of them bearing, respectively, a U.S. Flag, and a banner, perhaps a company roster. This may be a group of Civil War vetera... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | George S. Parker and family seated in their car, one of the first automobiles in Janesville. Behind them is a couple in another car. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Map showing a plat of the city, land ownership by name, wards by number, local streets, buildings, fair grounds, nurseries, and part of Rock River. The map... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype of William Cowper Noyes as an infant. Son of William B. Noyes and Julia (Page) Noyes of Janesville. William died at the age o... |
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