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Traveling Medicine Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic.
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Horse-Drawn Patent Medicines Wagon

Date: 01 07 1937
Description: A traveling salesman with Willson's Monarch Labs is standing beside the horse-drawn wagon that took him on sales routes in rural Wisconsin. Willson manufac...
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Pioneer Drug Store

Date: 1905
Description: View from street towards people standing outside the entrance to the Pioneer Drug and Economy Store. Caption reads: "Pioneer Economy Stores, Evansville, Wi...
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First National Bank of Edgerton Officers

Date: 04 17 1931
Description: First National Bank of Edgerton officers, who witnessed robbery, posing and standing outdoors in front of the bank.
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First National Bank

Date: 04 17 1931
Description: A male cashier, with bandaged head, was injured in the robbery. He is standing outside of the bank that was robbed.
Postcard

East Grand Avenue

Date: 1905
Description: The 5 and 10 cent store, with the Yale bakery, and a restaurant on East Grand Avenue visible from the bridge. Caption reads: "E. Grand Ave., form the Bridg...
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Grand Avenue in Beloit

Date: 1915
Description: Trolley car driving along Grand Avenue, with people walking on the sidewalks next to storefronts. Caption reads: "Grand Ave., Beloit, Wis."
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Kreb's Pharmacy

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: Interior of Kreb's Pharmacy, with the soda fountain in the foreground, and customers are in booths in the background.
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Kreb's Pharmacy Exterior

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: View towards the Kreb's Pharmacy on a street corner. There are Rexall and Borden's Ice Cream signs in the window. There is a fountain (bubbler) on the side...
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The Lappin Block

Date: 1892
Description: The Lappin block, Ed. Carpenter, proprietor. Businesses on this block include: Bort, Baily & Co., Dry Goods and Carpets; A.F. Hall & Co., "The Reliable Jew...
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Bustling Court and Main Streets

Date: 1870
Description: Elevated view of the busy streets of Court and Milwaukee. Three prominent buildings in view are: Court Street Methodist Church on the far left (b. 1868), w...
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Milwaukee Street in Janesville

Date: 1865
Description: Milwaukee Street looking west. In the foreground is a dog standing on a bridge. Signs on a building on the right read: "Furniture" and "Valley Chief Reaper...
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East Milwaukee Street in Janesville

Date: 1870
Description: View from along right side of bridge of Milwaukee Street looking east in Janesville. The Myers House is located at the top of the hill. There is a sign for...
Postcard

West Milwaukee Street

Date: 1904
Description: View down left side of street towards the right side of the street. A man is on a horse-drawn wagon in the left foreground. Storefronts are on the right. C...
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Early Highway Trailer

Date: 1915
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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Janesville's Milwaukee Street looking east from the Bridge

Date: 1919
Description: Street scene with pedestrians near Milwaukee Street bridge. The Hotel Myers is in the background. The Lappin-Hayes Block is seen to the right of the Myer...
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Janesville's Commercial District

Date: 1919
Description: Pedestrians and automobiles downtown. A street-railroad track runs down the middle of the road.
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Janesville's Downtown

Date: 1919
Description: Pedestrians in shopping district. Cars are parked and a streetcar is coming down the street.
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Ace Hardware, Watertower, Dairy Queen

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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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Pigeon House

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Description: View of a tall wood structure with rows of holes, perhaps a pigeon house. A cyclone fence is in front of it, and behind are industrial buildings. In the fa...

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