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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View across lawn towards the Malt House at 1603 Sherman Avenue. To the right of the Malt House is the Cafferty Distributing Company, wholesalers for Schlit... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A crew of construction workers paving North Main Street with brick. |
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| Description: | A car advertisement for a 1966 Chevelle on a billboard in a small unidentified Appalachian town. |
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| Description: | A billboard advertising the opening of a particular McDonald's restaurant. Express highways promoted the emergence of large signs that could be read at a d... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A billboard displays events at the foot of Bascom Hill from the bottom east side on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Bascom Hall with dome (form... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The intersection of Port Washington Road and Silver Spring Drive near Milwaukee. Even if one did not know that this was the intersection of a major north-s... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive #1100, a class I engine, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1873 and originally numbered #199. Th... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Construction site with construction crew working, people walking on the sidewalk, and a billboard advertising Oshkosh B'gosh. |
| Date: | 03 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior front view of Tony Urso's Westside Palm Tavern located at 730-736 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. Typewritten sheet with pho... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Front exterior view of Joe's Liquor Store at 702 West Washington Avenue in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Tenth and Fifty-seventh Streets, with early houses, car and barn. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad depot. Caption reads: "C.M. & St. P. Depot, Wauwatosa, Wis." |
| Date: | 10 10 1972 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the intersection of CTH Z and STH 13 near Wisconsin Rapids. A billboard to the left advertises the Ridges Inn and Country Club; on the r... |
| Date: | 07 28 1970 |
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| Description: | Traffic on Stevens Point's Second Street. |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | The approach to the Scott Street Bridge in Wausau, with the Wausau Cab Co. building and a large sign advertising the First American Bank, a "tower of stren... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View from left side of road towards several buildings and a lake on the right. Down the road automobiles are parked outside of a building with a sign that ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Main Street with automobiles lining either side. An ice cream parlor is visible on the right side, as are a dry cleaning and tailoring bu... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of a road crew along State Highway 15 at work constructing a trench for a penetration type shoulder near Kaukauna. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | This photograph from the Wisconsin Highway Commission records is unidentified, but a few internal details helps to understand the content. The Wisconsin li... |
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