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Pennco Station

Date: 07 24 1934
Description: Pennsylvania oil company gas station at the corner of 2 North Park and Regent Streets in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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Toy Truck with California Sun-Maid Seedless Raisins

Date: 1923
Description: Buddy L toy model S truck hauling California Sun-Maid Seedless Raisins.
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East Wilson Street

Date: 01 08 1946
Description: 300 block of East Wilson Street looking southwest down the center of East Wilson Street from South Hancock Street intersection, taken at site of Reynolds B...
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Pennsylvania Oil Company Service Station

Date: 01 17 1927
Description: Elevated view of cars lining up at Pennco filling (gas) station at the corner of State and Gorham Streets to get free crankcase draining and "Oak" Motor Oi...
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Madison Oriental Rug Company

Date: 11 20 1927
Description: Oriental rug business owned by Solomon Gulessarian at 319 State Street. The Palace Barber Shop is next door on the right.
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Rubin's Furniture Store

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: East Wilson Street, looking east from the King and Butler Streets intersection, with Rubin's Furniture at 302 East Wilson Street, Fitzgerald Electric at 30...
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Park Street

Date: 07 24 1934
Description: Looking south from railroad viaduct toward Greenbush. View is down newly widened and paved Park Street. The Roman Tavern, 46 North Park Street and Automobi...
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Car Advertisement

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Description: A car advertisement for a 1966 Chevelle on a billboard in a small unidentified Appalachian town.
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McDonald's Billboard

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Description: A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d...
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McCormick Works at Dusk

Date: 05 17 1937
Description: Elevated view of International Harvester's McCormick Works at dusk. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and became part of Internation...
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Driver in International Dairy Truck

Date: 09 04 1925
Description: View across street towards a man in the driver's seat of an International Special Delivery dairy truck parked in front of billboards. The International Spe...
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East Wilson Street Scene

Date: 01 08 1946
Description: View down sidewalk along East Wilson Street at the corner of the South Hancock intersection looking toward the West Wilson Street-King Street intersection....
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Building at 327 State Street

Date: 08 19 1945
Description: Building at 327 State Street to be occupied by B.F. Goodrich (formerly Sherwin-Williams Paint store). Billboards include Coca-Cola, Sunshine Krispy Cracker...
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325 - 329 State Street

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: Singer Sewing Machine Company store, 325 State Street, and Sherwin Williams Paint and Wallpaper Store, 327-329 State Street, with a billboard on top of the...
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Ace Buick Co. Garage

Date: 06 20 1944
Description: Ace Buick Company sales and service garage, 16 N. Fairchild Street, with Gardner's Purity Bread and Coca-Cola billboards on the side of the building. Autom...
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Burned-Out Diamond Gas Station

Date: 02 22 1942
Description: Burned-out Beran's D-X Diamond Mid-Continent Service Station, 118 King Street, at the corner of South Webster, including Kellogg's Cereal and Schlitz Beer ...
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Looking East on University Avenue

Date: 10 19 1939
Description: Looking east on University Avenue from the intersection with Grand Avenue, with the rear view of an automobile in the foreground. On the right is Samuel Fi...
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Looking East on University Avenue

Date: 10 19 1939
Description: Looking east on University Avenue from the intersection at Grand Avenue. Samuel Fiore's Phillips 66 service station, 2549 University Avenue is on the right...
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Diamond Gas Station

Date: 05 09 1937
Description: Two men service an automobile at Lewis D-X Diamond Service Station, 118 King Street at S. Webster Street, with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the b...
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Diamond Gas Station

Date: 05 09 1937
Description: Two men servicing an automobile at the Lewis D-X Diamond Gas Station, 118 King Street at S. Webster Street.

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