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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

Olaf Noer Drugstore

Date: 1920
Description: Brick building containing the Olaf Noer Drugstore. A man (presumably Mr. Noer himself) poses in the doorway.
Photograph

General Store Interior

Date: 1920
Description: Counters and display cases show goods for sale in the General Store.
Postcard

Green Shutters

Date: 1920
Description: The Green Shutters tea room and antique shop.
Postcard

Tower Avenue

Date: 1920
Description: View from sidewalk looking across Tower Avenue. A theater is in the right foreground, a furniture store is located on the left side of the street and a sho...
Photograph

Heg Store

Date: 1920
Description: Ole Heg Store, once also the home of Elias Strangeland (sp?). The original building was of log construction which was later boarded over.
Photograph

Heg Store

Date: 1920
Description: Ole Heg store, once also the home of Elias Stangeland (sp?). The original building was of log construction which was later boarded over. There is a woman s...
Photograph

Frisbie Block

Date: 1920
Description: Frisbie Block. Row of small shops and businesses in the same large brick building, with a horse-drawn sleigh of firewood in front. Caption reads: "Frisbie ...
Photograph

Display Floor at Dealership in Spain

Date: 1920
Description: Indoor view of machinery and other equipment on the display floor of a dealership in Spain. Two large arched windows or doorways are on the right. A man is...
Photograph

Brewery Gulch

Date: 1920
Description: Storefronts line the main streets in Brewery Gulch. Paramount Pictures Theater can be seen in the foreground.
Photograph

Kankakee Branch House Showroom

Date: 1920
Description: A McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and several pieces of and agricultural equipment stand on display inside International Harvester's Kankakee branch office...
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Harrisburg Branch House

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester Company branch building. A train is parked alongside the building next to a loading dock.
Photograph

General Merchandise Store and Post Office

Date: 1920
Description: Six people standing on the porch of L.J. Ryan Dry Goods and Groceries. A sign above the door says: Post Office North Andover." A team of two horses are pul...
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Map of Portage City, Wis.

Date: 1920
Description: This street map was likely given out by the Rebholz Company: Clothiers and Furnishers. The map shows labeled streets, train tracks, Silver Lake, Mud Lake, ...
Photograph

"Those Country Days Surely Are It"

Date: 1920
Description: Two men, Fred and Oscar Getto, sitting on the steps of two doors, one on the left and one on the right, of a store owned by Henry Getto. A sign above the t...
Photograph

Truck Dealership

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of truck dealership storefront.
Photograph

Display Floor at Dealership

Date: 1920
Description: Display of agricultural equipment on the floor of a dealership. There are Titan tractor on the right under a sign for: "Farm Operating Equipment."
Photograph

Display Floor at Dealership

Date: 1920
Description: Slightly elevated view of a display floor at a dealership.
Photograph

Buses in front of Implement Store

Date: 1920
Description: View across street towards three buses in front of an International Dealer storefront and A.H. Karpe's Implement House.
Photograph

Truck Parked in front of Dealership

Date: 1920
Description: Outdoor view of a truck parked in front of a brick building. Signs painted on the truck reads: "International Harvester," "Power Farm Equipment," "McCormic...

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