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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Droster's Grocery store and filling station. The business was located on the corner of 1438 North Sherman Avenue and Logan Street and was ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Droster Store at the corner of Burke and Felland Road. It is currently the Burke Station Tavern. |
| Date: | 04 01 1940 |
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| Description: | Droster's General Motors truck, used to deliver groceries, meats and hardware to their customers. The store was sold to Schubering, ca. 1950. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Residential block of North Sherman Avenue between McPherson and Farragut Street, across from Sherman School. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the 1914 Sun Prairie freshman class. Included in the group is Bill Droster, grandfather of the donor of this image. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Residence in Belle Isle on Lake Monona in Squaw Bay, off Winnequah Road. The building is no longer standing. |
| Date: | 11 11 1918 |
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| Description: | Armistice Day celebration (mock funeral of Kaiser Wilhelm II). Soldier identified is William Carlson, who was disabled by the chemical agent mustard gas an... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from water tower, showing the grove where Black Hawk's pursuers were supposed to have camped in 1832. The group of men in the foreground are digging f... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Temperance Hall and Temperance House, both built in the 1840's. |
| Date: | 02 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a modular home under construction in Wisconsin Rapids. The house was a project developed by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper C... |
| Date: | 03 11 1946 |
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| Description: | A truck arrives at a construction site in Wisconsin Rapids loaded with walls for a factory-built house. The house was the product of the Plastics Division... |
| Date: | 03 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Concrete block basement for a factory-built house in Wisconsin Rapids. The house was a product of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, and it was ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A fishing settlement. Small buildings and boats line a bay, with sand and a piece of driftwood in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Borgrud, in his work clothes, standing at the pumps at Droster's Grocery and Filling Station, 1438 Sherman Avenue. A child stands near a car beneat... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the house at 1917 East Mifflin Street, built by Willard Droster. The garage behind the home can be seen as well as the house at 1919 East Miffl... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the shingle-sided house at 1419 Sherman Avenue, in Sherman Park. Built by Willard Droster, with a car in the driveway. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the house at 1422 Sherman Avenue, built by Willard Droster, in the Sherman Park neighborhood. Children are playing on the left. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children standing on barrels in front of Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue, run by Red Whitney. The children are Whitney's nieces ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue with a car at the pumps. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the house at 1509 Hooker Avenue shortly after construction. The house was built by Willard Droster. |
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