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| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | The student uprising, in which 112 students were killed by the South Korean police in one day, led to the downfall of President Syngman Rhee. This event wa... |
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| Description: | Panoramic street view, with small groups of people scattered about, and standing on the sidewalks near buildings lining the unpaved street. On the sides of... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View from bridge of City Hall at North Water, North Market, and East Wells Streets, and East Kilbourn Avenue. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Billboard design for International Harvester Company motor trucks, features an illustration of a truck bearing the text: "Morris & Company" set against a g... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Billboard design for International Motor Trucks. The billboard features an illustration of a truck bearing the text: "Armour Company" and text that reads: ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Billboard design for International motor trucks featuring an illustration of a man driving a truck bearing the text: "Star Transfer Line" climbing a hill w... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Billboard design for International motor trucks featuring an illustration of a man driving a red truck with the initials "UTC" marked on its body. The text... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Billboard design for International motor trucks featuring an illustration of a man driving a green automobile loaded with wooden crates. The text on the bi... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Billboard design for International motor trucks featuring an illustration of the front wheels, hood and cab of a green truck against a red background. The ... |
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| Description: | View down a busy commercial downtown street featuring automobiles, cable cars, pedestrians, a restaurant, and the Hippodrome Theater which opened in 1914. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of Main Street. People, automobiles, and horse-drawn vehicles line the dirt-covered street and sidewalks. A Gold Medal Flour billboar... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View down middle of street. On the left a man and two children stand near a truck parked in the driveway of a service station. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the segregated entrance for African-Americans at Malco Theater. There is a fire escape on the side of the building. Several cars are parke... |
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| Description: | Madison magician Ben Bergor standing in front of the Leota Theatre. Bergor was born Ben Goldenberger, and first performed in vaudeville as Bennie Golden Be... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: Montgomery Ward (on North Henry Street), Colonial Shoppe E... |
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| Description: | Shops along Main Street. On the left, there is a Woodhouse and Bartley bank, a hardware store, Greer shoe store, J.B. Ludden general merchandise, a bank, a... |
| Date: | 03 17 1925 |
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| Description: | An International Model 43 truck owned by Whitmier & Ferris Company parked along the bank of a river where men are constructing the framework to a billboard... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Part of a United Public Workers parade/demonstration on a downtown city street. A horse-drawn wagon carries some participants. Parade signs read "No Swivel... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | An International D-405 truck outfitted with a Trailmobile refrigerated trailer owned by Carnation Company backs up to a factory loading dock where two men ... |
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