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| Date: | 12 22 1972 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire walked thousands of miles in Wisconsin to meet constituents. Here he is, in a snowmobile suit, shaking hands with a woman outside ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View down road with the Bay State House on the left. Three houses and a barbershop also line the street. A lamppost is in the left foreground. The Mississ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | River with distant hills behind a town. An island is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 08 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View from across street of three-story, classical revival, Bay State House. There is a side wing and a two-story porch across the front. An automobile is p... |
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| Description: | Main Street scene. The shops include a harness shop, bank, drug store, and the Bay State House. A woman stands in the open doorway of the drugstore across ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Evangelical Lutheran Saint Johannis Kirche. The church features stone walls, arched windows and doors, stained glass and a steeple. |
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| Description: | View down street, with two men posed standing in the street. There are wooden sidewalks on both sides of the street, with a storefront on the left, and a w... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a road, wooden boardwalk and railroad tracks leading towards a group of buildings near bluffs in the distance. On the right is a marshy ar... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View down path along rough road towards a building labeled "No. 4". The De Soto Depot, railroad tracks, a boxcar, and the Mississippi River are below on th... |
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| Description: | View of shoreline of boats tied along the banks the Mississippi River. A fish net drying reel is near the boats and a wooden walkway. The far shoreline is ... |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view from bluff. Far below is Main Street and the Mississippi River. The Bay State House facade can be seen among the buildings lining Main Stre... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Bay State House hotel. The building features three stories, a porch, a balcony, and a gable roof. |
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| Description: | A blurred image of a man as he is walking across the unpaved street which goes down to the Mississippi River. The Bay State House and more storefronts are ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the De Soto depot. A locomotive, blowing steam, is approaching the platform, where a small group of people waits to board. A boxcar on the... |
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| Description: | View looking down bluff of a residential neighborhood. On the right is the Mississippi River. Railroad tracks run along the shoreline towards more bluffs. |
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| Description: | View down unpaved residential road. The Methodist Episcopal Church is on the right. |
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| Description: | Locomotive at the De Soto depot on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad line. The Mississippi River is on the left. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down double set of railroad tracks with the De Soto depot on the left and the Mississippi River on the right. A car is parked at the depot, and bluffs... |
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| Description: | View across double set of railroad tracks and field towards steep bluff with exposed rock. |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Methodist Episcopal Church with bell tower and stained glass windows. To the right of the church is a smaller building, and behind the chur... |
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