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Fleet of International Delivery Trucks

Date: 1931
Description: Fleet of parked International delivery trucks for Oscar Mayer. Included in the line up are the AW-2, AL-3 and A-5.
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McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view of the McCormick Works Club House. The Club House was designed for recreational use by factory employees.
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Fire Fighters with Fire Hoses

Date: 1931
Description: Small clusters of fire fighters work to put out a fire with fire hoses, which are aimed high at a building covered in smoke.
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Street Scene

Date: 1931
Description: View down middle of street. On the left a man and two children stand near a truck parked in the driveway of a service station.
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Public School

Date: 1931
Description: View from across street of schoolchildren standing and playing on the sidewalk outside the Benton High School.
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Traveling Library

Date: 1931
Description: Two women select books from the opened back of a traveling branch library in a truck parked on a street.
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Merrillan Street Scene

Date: 1931
Description: View down a commercial street. The shops on the street include: a drugstore, the City Hotel, the post office, the Merrillan Home Bakery, and the State Bank...
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Residence of Francis Johnson

Date: 1931
Description: View from street of a two-story "boomtown" style building which was the residence of Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, Town of W...
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Bauer's Rooms — 814 Elm St.

Date: 1931
Description: View from street of a house in a residential neighborhood with rooms available for tourists.
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Coe's Porches — 414 Broadway

Date: 1931
Description: View from street towards Coe's Porches, a place with sleeping porches and rooms for tourists. A group of people are standing in the front lawn and an autom...
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The Elmwood Rooms — 531 Washington Avenue

Date: 1931
Description: View from street of private home in a residential neighborhood with rooms available to tourists. There are flower boxes on the railing of the porch.
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The Marten's Room and Bath

Date: 1931
Description: Guest house with a sunroom in the front.
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Olson's Woodlawn

Date: 1931
Description: View from street of Olson's Woodlawn Rooms, a large brick building with striped awnings over some of the windows on the first floor. A low stone wall is on...
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The Van

Date: 1931
Description: View from street of the Hotel Van, which has a long porch facing the sidewalk, and exterior stairs leading to the balcony on the second floor. There are aw...
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White House Cottages - Vine St - Hwy 16

Date: 1931
Description: View from road of the guest cottages on both sides of the lawn. The property is bordered by white picket fences, and there is a row of stones in front alon...
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Moseley Book Company

Date: 1931
Description: View across street towards the Moseley Book Company, at 10 E. Mifflin Street. The storefront is below the offices of Central Life. Next door on the right a...
Postcard

First National Bank

Date: 1931
Description: View across intersection towards the corner bank, which is next to a service station. Automobiles are parked at the curb. Caption reads: "First National Ba...
Book or Pamphlet

WI Telephone Company

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building, 946 E. Main Street. In the background is a sign (reading backwards) for "Burgess Battery."

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