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| Date: | 05 18 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large group of people gathered with tractors and trucks for a scrap parade in a downtown area. In the background automobiles are parked ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view north along Clark Street with pedestrians, street cars, trucks and automobiles. Lincoln Park is on the right; the Belden Stratford Hotel is o... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | An International Model M truck parked in front of several billboard advertisements near a large brick building. The billboards include advertisements for "... |
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| Description: | Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of "Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares," a sculpture by Yevgeniy Vuchetich donated to the United Nations by the Soviet Union. The sculpture shows... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A woman standing in front of closed stalls on Coney Island. The framework for the Devil's Pit roller coaster rises in the background behind dilapidated si... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Automobiles approaching a turn in a paved road with billboards on either side. Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Depart... |
| Date: | 05 18 1952 |
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| Description: | Drum majorette leading band around the corner from West Main Street onto South Carroll Street in the Wisconsin Knights of Columbus Golden Jubilee parade. S... |
| 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: | View down Water Street, with billboards advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. There is also a bridge ... |
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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: | 07 29 1952 |
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| Description: | Buick advertising sign in the first block of North Fairchild Street, uncovered by workers who removed another billboard that had covered the old sign. |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms strums a guitar, with one foot resting on the bumper of a car at 629 Milton Street. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Car in a parade carrying a sign that reads "Let us pray...God damn Hitler." A large crowd watches the parade from bleachers along the side of the road. The... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View down street of St. Josephat's Basilica and the surrounding streets. |
| Date: | 02 06 1998 |
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| Description: | "We are at Smith Bros. in Port Washington. Original plans were to eat at No No's in Newburg but when they told us it would be a two hour wait, we continued... |
| 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... |
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