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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Commercial building with road (Broad Street) in foreground. Cars are parked in the lot, with Village Hall and residences in the background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, 17 South Fairchild Street. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man unloading cases of 7-Up soda outside a delicatessen at the corner of Michigan and Northampton streets. Truck operated by Henry Guggenheimer. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Panorama view, elevated, of the Wisconsin State Capitol at night from the roof of a building on Monona Avenue. The First National Bank and the Belmont Hote... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1940 line of International delivery trucks featuring a color illustration of a "streamlined" Metro truck in ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for International Model D-15 delivery trucks. Features an image of a driver unloading linen from a delivery truck owned by Atlas Linen... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company Building, 17 South Fairchild Street. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Smith's Store in Montrose, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Looking west on W. Wisconsin Avenue from N. 3rd Street, featuring Woolworth's, Boston Store, and the Schroeder Hotel. An Edgewood-bound bus is stopped in f... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Storefronts on Monroe Street, including Henry Esch Faville's Photography Shop at 1726 Monroe Street. Also shown is: George Burrowbridge, Barber, 1724 Monro... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An man on a International I-12 tractor owned by the city of Davenport is lifting gravel into a truck. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The storefront of the J.C. Penney store, 127 Third Street. There are summer clothes, hats, and shoes for men and women in the display windows. There is a h... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men and a woman pose in front of the L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating store, 137 Third Avenue. There are signs advertising Maytag and Shellane, "compres... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Eight new Massie-Harris tractors are parked in the snow in front of the Martiny Implement Co., 147 Third Avenue. A crowd has gathered and men sit on the tr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from across street of a shirtless young man standing beside an automobile in the shade of a lean-to attached to the old Ringling Hotel. Signs on the t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a diner, showing two semi-circular counters with stools and booths along the walls. There is a jukebox on the right and a root beer bar... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Storefront of the People's Bookstore showing a Lincoln and Jefferson display. An awning is over the adjacent smoke shop on the left, and on the exterior wa... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International D-15 trucks, featuring the International Triple Diamond logo, and a photograph of a man loading a truck ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International D-300 and DS-300 trucks, featuring the International Triple Diamond logo, and a photograph of a man with... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man removes a package from the back of an International D-15 truck owned by Atlas Linen Supply Company. The vehicle is parked along the curb in front of ... |
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