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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Business section of Fitchburg. Building and trees to the right with men and cars out front. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering service featuring a color illustration of a "Red Baby" farm truck. The company offered a $1,000 prize to the deale... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the Larson Brothers' flying field at Larsen in Winnebago County, about one year after the brothers laid out the runway. The field remained... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Science Hall, and Bascom Hall on Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota i... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Wilson's Tavern, north of the point where the road from Black Hawk enters Trunk Highway 60. Built by John Wilson on Wilson Creek. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Old Military Road sign. Sign reads: "1864 — 1924 Old Military Road — In March — 1863 — Abraham Lincoln affixed his signature to an act of Congress which en... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A machine and repair shop, 228 East Main Street, shows an example of the Dutch style front. The shop was originally the Frank J. Fleckenstein residence. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | An old Masonic Temple and a new temple under construction. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Firefighters handle a fire hose connected to an International Model G or 61 fire truck operated by the "Canadian Fire Department." |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Court of Honor on Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from across street of the People's State Bank decorated to honor the 250th anniversary of the discovery of the Mississippi River. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A street gathering of people interested in using war-salvaged explosives for a land clearance program. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | E.W. Brandel, standing in a road. Known as Gramps by Mary Brandel, he is posing holding a bag, a bundle of sticks on his back, and a long stick over his sh... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of a crowd, consisting of men, women, and children standing among what appears to be charred ruins. Smoke is rising in the background. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows trails, some in red, for automobiles. The right margin includes a key of markings as well as Minnesota and Wisconsin Highway signs. Communit... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of the McFarland train depot. Two men are on the platform, and a cow grazes in the grass on the left. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | This early road map shows the system of roads in Wisconsin, northern Illinois, northeastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, and the western portion of Michig... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A narrow stone-lined lane leads to the Hotz family cottage on Europe Lake, where two men stand on the porch. The man on the right is David Kincaid, the ca... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A man stands on the rustic porch of the Hotz cottage on Europe Lake. There is a single set of tire tracks in the snow on the drive. |
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