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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

Mission Inn

Date: 1920
Description: View across lawn of the Mission Inn on Madeline Island, with a shoreline on the left.
Drawing

Capitol View with Hotel Loraine

Date: 1920
Description: Color illustration of a view from the Wisconsin State Capitol (which was the fourth State Capitol and the third in Madison) showing the Hotel Loraine and W...
Photograph

International Motor Trucks Billboard

Date: 1920
Description: Roadside billboard for International motor trucks distributed by the Memphis Motor Car Company. The advertisement depicts an International truck axle.
Photograph

Suffragists Picketing on Fifth Avenue

Date: 1920
Description: Protesters demonstrating for women's rights parade up and down Fifth Avenue. They had previously been arrested at the White House.
Photograph

International Harvester Building

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of the International Harvester building, as seen from the northwest. Lake Michigan is in the background.
Photograph

Vegetables and Canned Goods

Date: 1920
Description: Storefront display of canned goods and vegetables.
Photograph

Passengers Aboard International Model H Bus

Date: 1920
Description: International Model H bus loaded with passengers and parked in front of a store selling furniture and "talking machines" (phonographs). The bus was owned b...
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Butterfield Hotel, Clermont Street

Date: 1920
Description: The Butterfield Hotel on Clermont Street.
Photograph

Langlade County Court House

Date: 1920
Description: The Langlade County Court House.
Postcard

High School

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the two-story brick High School building with basement. A bare flagpole is on the roof. Caption reads: "High School, Arcadia, wis."
Postcard

Baraboo Public Library

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the Baraboo public library. Caption reads: "Public Library, Baraboo, Wis."
Print

Willliams Free Library

Date: 1920
Description: Angled view of the Williams Free Library. Caption reads: "The Williams Free Library, Beaver Dam, Wis."
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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Congregational Church

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of Congregational church.
Photograph

Luther Hall

Date: 1920
Description: View of Luther Hall, built in about 1850 or 1860.
Postcard

Village Inn in Cambridge

Date: 1920
Description: Front view of the Village Inn. Caption reads: "The Village Inn Cambridge Wisc."
Photograph

Stanley Hotel in Chippewa Falls

Date: 1920
Description: View from street towards the Stanley Hotel on a corner, with large electricity poles on the sidewalk in front.
Photograph

Milwaukee Street in Clinton

Date: 1920
Description: View down center of Milwaukee Street. Houses are on both sides.

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