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| 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: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Logs floating down the river beneath the bridge on the Chippewa River. On the far shoreline are billboards. One advertises for "J.R. Sharp Hardware." Men a... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | The 200 block of King Street looking toward the Union Transfer building. |
| Date: | 02 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street towards the Oscar Fridblom's Health Food Store at a new location, 120 East Washington Avenue. A Heintz ketchup billboard is sitti... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Gateway to the Sauk City Bridge from the Dane County side. The sign on the pillar on the left reads: "Wisconsin River" and the sign on the right pillar rea... |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of East Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square. The Strand Theater is on the right. Automobiles are parked at an angle on both sides of the str... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | The intersection of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue after the old City Hall (1858-1954) and Fuller Opera House had been torn down. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Race course and grandstand at Road America in Elkhart Lake, where racing began in 1955. Prior to that, Elkhart Lake was host to automobile racing on the vi... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Thomas B. Jeffery's first Rambler automobile during a test for strength in Kenosha, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 30 1960 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the parking lot at the Westgate Shopping Center. The storefronts are on the left, and include Ragatz Shoes, Three Sisters, ?obil Shoes, S.... |
| Date: | 06 1972 |
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| Description: | View along the 2700 block of Fish Hatchery Road, with billboard advertising residential lots in Tower Hill Park (a development by Llyman McKee and William ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Billboard urging Wisconsin motorists to obey the 55 miles per hour speed limit that is illustrated with a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual lea... |
| Date: | 04 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Officer Frank B. Ingraham, at his beat on the corners of State, Henry, and Johnson Streets, with young school children from Holy Redeemer School. Ingraham ... |
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