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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | The McDonnell-Garnhart residence, 424 North Pinckney Street. This Romanesque revival house was designed in 1857 by Samuel H. Donnel, the architect for the... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel. |
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| Description: | A page from a Nash Motors Company catalog, showing a six-cylinder, four-passenger sport sedan which was available in deep maroon with a khaki-color mohair ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Unprotected railroad crossings were a particular hazard for automobiles as this 1923 poster issued by the American Railroad Association dramatically points... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | In 1922 the Wisconsin Truck Company purchased the Wisconsin Farm Tractor Company of Sauk City, which had formerly manufactured trucks as well as wagons, mo... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Two police officers holding rifles escort two prisoners into a paddywagon. Lining the road is a long, perspective view of an outdoor prison. Red text impri... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee River from the east bank at the North Avenue dam. Caption on negative reads: "Milwaukee River at North Ave". |
| 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: | East Water Street at Mason, looking at the Morris E. Fox & Co. building. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Rudolph Valentino and his wife Natacha Rambova pose with their Voisin automobile. |
| 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: | Frank O. King poses for a photograph while riding horseback in the American Southwest. In 1923, Frank and Delia traveled to the Grand Canyon, Monument Vall... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch of a farmhouse to look at a McCormick cream separator at the base of the stairs. Nearby a man wearing ove... |
| 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: | A woman using an axe to chop wood in a rural area. A pile of logs is in the background. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A customer offers payment for fruit to a woman sitting at a small desk inside an orchard shed. Multiple rows of bushel baskets filled with peaches are line... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of scenes from Alma. Three scenes from areas around Alma show the town along the Mississippi River, an elevated view of the river bet... |
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