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Pabst Malt Extract

Date: 1903
Description: Eye catching Eagle Drugstore window display for Pabst Malt Extract, "The Best Tonic". An advertisement for this product stated that it was "the greatest to...
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Intersection of Main and First Streets

Date: 1890
Description: Corner of Main and First Street. The first two buildings on the southwest corner are Abraham Meinhold's dry goods and LeClair's hardware store. Next is A.F...
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General Store Interior

Date: 1920
Description: Counters and display cases show goods for sale in the General Store.
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Mifflin Street at Capitol Square

Date: 1955
Description: Bus traveling down Mifflin Street on Capitol Square. Moseleys, Woldenbergs and Walgreen's Drugs are on the right.
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Isolated Shack

Date: 09 24 1960
Description: An isolated shack that was formerly an antique dealer's store.
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Farmall 560 Tractor

Date: 
Description: Color photograph of a man on a Farmall 560 tractor outside an International Harvester dealership. Another man stands near the tractor on the left. In the b...
Print

IH Prototype Dealership Building

Date: 1945
Description: Front cover of an International Harvester booklet showing "exterior and interior visualizations" of prototype dealership buildings. The cover features a co...
Photograph

Mazomanie across Railroad Tracks

Date: 1869
Description: View from across the railroad track. The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad car #4770 is in the foreground. The Freeman House, Carlisle House and Empire Stove...
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Old Frontier Shop

Date: 1954
Description: Old Frontier Shop.
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Monroe Street Businesses

Date: 1958
Description: Exterior view of businesses along 1831-1841 Monroe Street, including: H & R Variety store, Schensky Hardware, Archer's Pharmacy and Main Western Auto.
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Aerial View of Downtown

Date: 1957
Description: Aerial view of downtown.
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City Bakery

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Description: Decorated cake for the grand opening of the City Bakery.
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Phil Dickert and Joe Klein

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: Phil Dickert (left) and Joe Klein (right) pictured with cans of Mautz paint at the Klein-Dickert Co. store at 752 University Avenue.
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1939
Description: South Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. The view includes several retail shops and a women's clothing store.
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Christmas Shopping

Date: 12 06 1947
Description: Jancie Cordes, DeForest, with unidentified woman looking at a display of stuffed animals (at Wolff, Kubly, and Hirsig).
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Corner of Grove and Mineral Street

Date: 
Description: Corner of Grove and Mineral Streets with cars parked along the road. Storefronts line the streets. The Goodwill store, a used car dealership and a water to...
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E...
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Bertha Atkinson, Baron Brothers Department Store buyer, fits a bootie on Norma Widener, 11-months old, being held by her mother Valera Widener. In the fore...
Photograph

Star Photo Robbery

Date: 01 11 1949
Description: "Ken Ahrens (left), photographer at the Star Photo Shop, 924 Williamson Street, with R.E. Mattison, the shop owner, viewing the cash box which Ahrens preve...
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Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company Window

Date: 08 18 1949
Description: Display of guns in the display window at Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company, 29 West Main Street.

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