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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Filling station sign reading: "smile," purposely put upside down. A young woman is bending over to read it. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street, lined with the fire department, city clerk's office, and Pugh's Battery - Electric Shop. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Woman's Building, one of the oldest buildings in the city. It is believed to have been built in 1842 by John Folsom, an early settler and farmer on the hei... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Purdy house, Portage, Wisconsin. A stone wall runs along the sidewalk, topped with an iron fence. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Motel that was formerly a clandestine safe-house for the 26th of July Movement during the Cuban Revolution. Parking lot with a blue car in front of a pink,... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of Shirley Widmer, the photographer's wife, digging out a snow-covered sidewalk. Caption: "Shirley Widmer digs out after a big snowstorm." |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Shirley Widmer, the photographer's wife, shoveling snow after a big snowstorm. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page from the Madison Club, with an illustrated three-quarter view of the corner of the club building and a view of the main entrance ... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of State Street from the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Lake Mendota is on the far right. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "St. Ann Catholic Church & School. Stoughton, Wis." A brick church and school with a 1959 Rambler Cross Country Station Wagon parked a... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Main Street, Watertown, Wis." A busy street scene with automobiles in the street and parked along the curb. The street is lined wit... |
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