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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over trees of village. In the background is a water tower on a hill with trees. |
| 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: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for International school buses. Cover features a photographic illustration of school children boarding a bus for the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Executive Residence, 130 East Gilman Street, preceded the current one in Maple Bluff. Purchased in 1882 by Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk, the legislature bough... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Executive Residence, 130 East Gilman Street, built in 1854. Used as Executive Residence from 1883-1950. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Neighborhood House at 766 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The home of Moses Strong, a prominent attorney, politician, speculator and land agent who moved to Wisconsin Territory and settled in Mineral Point in 1836... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The home of Moses Strong, a prominent attorney, politician, speculator and land agent who moved to Wisconsin Territory and settled in Mineral Point in 1836... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of the Mitchell-Rountree house, built in 1837. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Pierce home, located at 424 North Pinckney Street, built about 1857. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Small neighborhood of the city at the west end of the Menomonee River Valley. Overhead is the second Wisconsin Avenue Viaduct, demolished in 1992. Cars a... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children standing on barrels in front of Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue, run by Red Whitney. The children are Whitney's nieces ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue with a car at the pumps. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| 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: | A man operating an International I-12 tractor with a snowplow to plow a sidewalk. A group of children are walking behind the snowplow. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man is cleaning a residential street with an International I-14 tractor with a Hough sweeper attached. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Uniformed man stands with boxes at the back of an International model D-2 truck with 102-inch wheelbase and Metro body. The truck was owned by the Minnehah... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Uniformed driver stepping down from an International model D-2-M truck with a 113-inch wheelbase and a Metro body in a residential neighborhood. According ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two uniformed men unload a refrigerator from the back of an International D-30 truck used by the Sears, Roebuck, & Co. truck in front of a residence. A ma... |
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