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Lake Geneva Downtown Restaurants

Date: 1920
Description: Downtown view. On the left side of the street is a restaurant, a photography store, a drugstore, and an ice cream parlor. On the right side is another ice ...
Photograph

Men Work on Streetcar Power Lines with International Model H Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Two men working on trolley car electrical wires (catenary) in the middle of a street. The men are standing on a platform in the back of an International Mo...
Photograph

Central House in Boscobel

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view from street of Central House, with advertisements on the side of the building for Red Crown Gasoline. The Order of the Gideons was founded he...
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Central House in Boscobel

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view from intersection towards the Central House, later known as the Boscobel Hotel, with cars parked in the center of the street on the right. Th...
Postcard

Holy Hill

Date: 1920
Description: View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi...
Photograph

Madison City Hall

Date: 1920
Description: Madison City Hall, 2 West Mifflin Street, built in 1857, originally had a small Romanesque clock tower in the corner closest to the camera in this photogra...
Photograph

Fred Rennebohm's Store

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of Fred Rennebohm's drugstore, 1951 Winnebago Street.
Photograph

State Street

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of town. There is an unusual automobile parking pattern in the center of State Street. There is a sign for "Billiards" on a building in the r...
Photograph

Business District Street Scene

Date: 1920
Description: View down cobblestone street in the business district numerous cars, pedestrians, and storefronts. Cars are parked at an angle on both sides of the street.
Photograph

Town Hall

Date: 1920
Description: A view of the the front facade of the town hall and of the World War I memorial statue. A line of cars are parked in front of the building.
Photograph

Ivy Covered Home

Date: 1920
Description: View of an automobile parked in front of a large ivy covered home.
Photograph

Hotel Martinque

Date: 1920
Description: A view of the Hotel Martinque. Cars are parked on the street near the hotel, which is a three-story brick building with balconies.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1920
Description: Street scene featuring a gas station and cafe along a dirt road.
Photograph

Columbus Branch House

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of International Harvester Company's Columbus branch house. Several automobiles are parked alongside the curb. A railroad car is behind the b...
Photograph

Richmond Branch House

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of International Harvester's Richmond branch building. A train car rests on tracks that run adjacent to the building. Several automobiles are...
Photograph

Readfield

Date: 1920
Description: Copy photograph of a man and boy standing at the road. This location would later become the site of Jung's General Store. The photograph has a horse and bu...
Postcard

Broadway, East De Pere

Date: 1920
Description: View down center of street towards automobiles and trucks parked at an angle along the curbs in the central business district. Caption reads: "Broadway, Ea...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1920
Description: Iowa Street, looking south, with the Iowa County Courthouse on the right. Automobiles are parked at an angle on both sides of the street. Caption reads: "S...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1920
Description: View down center of unpaved street, showing storefronts on the right, with a metal railing between the street and sidewalk. There is a gas pump at the rail...
Photograph

The Schoelkopf Lincoln Ford Dealership

Date: 1920
Description: View from across street towards the Schoelkopf automobile dealership at 210 E. Washington Avenue. Above the show windows flanking the entrance are signs fo...

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