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"McCormick Day"

Date: 06 03 1899
Description: Crowd gathered on the main street to witness the delivery of McCormick binders, mowers and other machines to customers. McCormick Harvesting Machine Compan...
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Men Loading Cotton Bales

Date: 1905
Description: Men on a city street with bales of cotton loaded onto wagons, possibly in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
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Bloomington Main Street — Alternative View

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Description: Shops along Main Street after the rain. On the left, there is the dentist office of S. A. Marlow, August Dreifus and Company Clothing - "shoes for the whol...
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Bloomington Main Street — Alternative View

Date: 1925
Description: View down middle of Main Street. The right side of the street features: Bloomington State Bank, Ira Fox Meat Market, C.H. Enke, Sprague's Recreation Parlor...
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Arcadia Wis. Out to Win

Date: 07 29 1909
Description: View of Main Street. Shops and businesses line both sides of the street including a hotel, city livery and laundromat. There are pedestrians and horse-draw...
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Main Street

Date: 1909
Description: View looking down Main Street. Shops and businesses line both sides of the street including the P.J. Wossenburger Hotel, city livery, bakery and harness sh...
Postcard

Ringling Brothers Circus Parade

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Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of the Circus Parade on a rainy day. Crowds of people line the street, and many are holding umbrellas.
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Elevated View of Parade

Date: 1895
Description: Elevated view of parade, looking down a broad street. It has been suggested but not verified that this view is in Superior, Wis.
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Parade on Main Street

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Description: View down unpaved street towards a marching band parading up Main Street during a patriotic celebration. Pedestrians watch from the sidewalks.
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Parade Scene

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a loaded wagon/float in front of Building No. 88 on the northeast corner of South First and Fillmore Streets. A banner rea...
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Decorated Wagon in Parade

Date: 1905
Description: View towards a man posing sitting in a decorated wagon pulled by a team of two decorated horses on a town street. Banners on the wagon read: "The Old Stand...
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Sponsored Float

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a wagon pulled by a team of six horses advertising "The People's Drugstore" under a banner that reads "Wall Paper and Pa...
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After a Parade

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Description: Exterior portrait of a wagon pulled by a team of four horses and under a banner that reads "Wall Paper and Paints." A marching band is gathered on a sidewa...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 06 21 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Street Scene, Shiocton, Wis." Horse-drawn wagons are hitched in front of storefronts on an unpaved street. A horse on the right wears...
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Spring Green Fair

Date: 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "Spring Green Fair." A parade through a town on an unpaved road. A horse-drawn buggy is decorated with "Erin Go Bragh" flags and folia...

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