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| Date: | 05 09 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men servicing an automobile at the Lewis D-X Diamond Gas Station, 118 King Street at S. Webster Street. |
| Date: | 11 12 1936 |
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| Description: | Chicago & Northwestern Railroad tracks, looking east at the crossing of S. Blair Street, King Street, E. Wilson Street, and Williamson Street. Included in ... |
| Date: | 05 31 1935 |
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| Description: | Diamond D-X Service Station, 118 King Street. (Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.) The view is across S. Webster Street looking up King Street toward the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 05 07 1935 |
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| Description: | Four men are looking on during installation of a billboard designed by Hinkson Advertising Agency, at the corner of S. Park Street and Olin Avenue. The sig... |
| Date: | 08 03 1934 |
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| Description: | View down road towards a group of people looking at an overturned automobile belonging to Fred Swanson. Fred and Norma Swanson, Dorothy Thompson, Edward an... |
| Date: | 08 09 1933 |
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| Description: | "Madison Welding" NRA (National Recovery Administration) sign painted on the side of a building, possibly on the side of Madison Welding at 9 N. Ingersoll ... |
| Date: | 06 17 1933 |
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| Description: | A worker is sorting through the rubble from the collapsed Kleinheinz Pennco service station (Pennsylvania Oil Company), 702 S. Park Street. People in the ... |
| Date: | 02 13 1932 |
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| Description: | A man stands with an Automotive Electric Company truck in front of a Delco Battery billboard. |
| Date: | 06 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Ray's Barbecue and Standard Oil Gas Station, on the Oregon Road (just beyond the French Village which was located at 2323 S. Park Street). |
| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Farm Utilities Company, located at 124 S. Butler Street. (A Trachte building.) |
| Date: | 01 06 1931 |
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| Description: | A man stands at a safety zone in the middle of West Mifflin Street between lanes of traffic at the corner of State Street and N. Carroll Street, waiting to... |
| Date: | 11 07 1930 |
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| Description: | View of Harry S. Manchester's Inc. department store with display windows and awnings over the entrances, on the corner at 2-6 East Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 05 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Strand Theater, with marquee advertising Warner Baxter and Carol Lombard in "The Arizona Kid," and Collyer's Pharmacy, Kinney Shoes, and a Heinz billboard. |
| Date: | 05 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Sears Roebuck and Company store, 313-315 State Street, and The Vim sporting goods store, 317 State Street, with a sign painted on the side of its building. |
| Date: | 05 19 1930 |
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| Description: | Johnson Oil Refining Company billboard. "20 years of quality ... time tells!" Featuring Father Time holding an hourglass in the center of the logo for "Joh... |
| Date: | 05 19 1930 |
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| Description: | Johnson Oil Refining Company billboard. "Dependable refiners ... time tells!" Featuring 2 different logos for "Johnson Gasolene, Time Tells": the one on th... |
| Date: | 08 27 1929 |
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| Description: | Conklin and Sons oil station at 655 W. Washington Avenue. A billboard on the side of building says "Sinclair HC Gasoline Stops Knocks." Next door on the le... |
| Date: | 09 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Marling Lumber Company, 1801 East Washington Avenue. The Yahara River is to the right, with a bridge in the background. |
| Date: | 10 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Accident scene involving a Findorff cement truck and a Studebaker coupe that were involved in a head-on crash on Highway 12 & 18 near the Royal Airport, sh... |
| 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... |
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