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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road towards men, boys, and a young woman standing on a sidewalk in front of the storefront of M. Liebeler Farm Machinery and Garage. T... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Carl Peterson and his family, take a rest while driving their car on a rural dirt road. His son's name is Laurie and the girl is Muriel Peterson Jacobs. Of... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of intersection of the Janesville Plank Road and North Cape Road at Hales Corners, also showing Schubrino's Saloon. The Janesville road, some... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A 1917 Locomobile Cabriolet parked in a residential neighborhood. Its body was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A 1917 Moline-Knight, the body of which was created by the W.S. Seaman Company. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View toward the wide square, with automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks and in the street. Caption reads: "Dunlap Square, ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down avenue. There is a woman in the street in the left foreground, and behind her is a pavilion. An automobile is going down the street, and commerci... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | These two signs located along the route of Wisconsin State Trunk Highway 15 and 16 indicate the presence of a culvert. Beginning in 1917 Wisconsin pioneer... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved road lines with trees towards a car that is approaching from a distance at Houston and Oklona Pike. There is a Coca-Cola advertisement on... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | International Harvester branch house. A bystander watches a man work on one of the railroad tracks outside the building. An man in a automobile is driving ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of International Harvester branch house. Signs on the building advertise farm machines, oil tractors, engines, wagons and motor trucks. A lon... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Cartoon illustrating "the layman's idea of how horse-power is determined." The cartoon shows an automobile in a "tug-of-war" with a large number of horses. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Looking down Grand Avenue to the east. The road is lined with automobiles, and cable car tracks are on the snow-covered street. A sign for Gimbel's is on t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group gathered on benches in the late evening for a night time lecture, lantern slide show or film showing by International Harvester's Agricultural Extens... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of girls from the Canning Club of Walkenhorst School sitting and standing around a table outdoors to display their canned goods. A man wearing eyeg... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of boys from the Boys Grain Judging Club at Walkenhorst School sitting around a table outdoors to look at cobs of corn. A man, wearing eyeglasses, ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Pleasant View Rural School. There are several automobiles parked behind the building. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View down center of the downtown business district, with several people walking on the sidewalk past storefronts. Automobiles are parked at an angle along ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of men walking alongside train cars and a line of automobiles at a train station. The men are likely gathered for an event on the "Union Pacific Silo... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of people and automobiles gathered around a train station at a stop of the "Union Pacific Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign." |
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