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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Map features advertisements for local businesses on the left and bottom. Map includes a "LEGEND" and "DIRECTORY OF CHURCHES". Streets are labeled as are so... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from street corner at Broadway and West 50th Street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when it was screening the movie "Foreign C... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Postcard with retouched photomechanical reproduction, printed in color, of an elevated view of the Campus Martius and surrounding buildings in downtown. Ca... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two views of two small statues on the grounds of the Holy Ghost Church. The bases on which these statues stand are encrusted with shells, bits of glass, sm... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Toots Sullivan (on left) and Emil Picha stand in front of the exterior of the Toot's Standard Gas Station at the intersection of Mill Street and Prairie Av... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A group of people having a picnic at the Ojibwa Roadside Park. There are several cars and trucks in the background, and a small building. The picnic tables... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Several small groups of people are scattered about the roadside park among picnic tables. There are parked automobiles, and a small building. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Looking north on Bridge Street from Spring Street intersection. In foreground, left, is a bank. In foreground, right, is a restaurant with a neon sign that... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A row of maple trees lines the brick walkway along the main house at Black Point. There are benches on the lawn; Geneva Lake is in the background. A gable ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View looking north across intersection towards the 400 block of North Carroll Street. A light snow clings to the trees and roofs of the houses. A car is ap... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from State Street looking towards the front of St. Paul's University Chapel, 723 State Street. Fitch Court runs along the left side of the building to... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of the St. Croix River at Interstate Park. There is a boat with open sides, probably an excursion boat, going down the river, and rock for... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View towards a line of several dozen men and women, in equestrian attire and on horseback, riding single file up a hill from a large arena style building s... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of George F. Brumder's Pine Lake house, with a screened porch on the far right and enclosed porches left and center. Several of the windows on the upp... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The State Street side of the Wisconsin Historical Society building and sidewalk. A large tree is in the left foreground. Bascom Hill is in the Background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Single-story vertical log building with both a stone chimney and a brick chimney, as well as a front vestibule. Snow is on the roof and ground around the b... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Park Hotel, Richland Center, Wis." A large brick hotel is located at the intersection of two city streets. The hotel is three stories... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a dam, bridge over the river and part of the town with many trees. Caption reads: "The Dam, on the Apple River - Somerset, Wis." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Billings Park, Superior, Wis." A city park on the St. Louis River, a freshwater estuary. Small islands with several bridges are surro... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Canning Co. Assn. Waterloo, Wis." Buildings, wagons and automobiles surround a canning factory. Founded in 1900, it was later purchas... |
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