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Construction Truck

Date: 1969
Description: A man is driving a construction truck in the shadow cast by what appears to be an elevated highway. A sign for the "Brooklyn Battery Tunnel" is on one of t...
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Sixth Street Viaduct

Date: 1950
Description: View from the top of a warehouse at the south end of 6th Street. There is a traffic jam on both sides of the viaduct. On the left, one man is walking on th...
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Coffin Cart

Date: 1946
Description: A coffin cart photographed by Sigurd Olson while traveling, probably in Germany, shortly after the end of the World War II.
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Vine Street

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Description: View down Vine Street. Automobiles are parked on either side of the street and Wood County National Bank stands to the right. A pedestrian crosses at the i...
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Main Street

Date: 1948
Description: "Main (Milwaukee) Street. At this time Hwy 41 was still routed through the village."
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Main Street

Date: 1956
Description: "Main Street taken with a telephoto lens."
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Overpass

Date: 10 1948
Description: "This overhead at Addison carried Hwy 41 (later Hwy 175) over Hwy 33."
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Bridge on Highway 175

Date: 1954
Description: "Telephoto picture of the old bridge. Note Highway is 175."
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Roller Skating Troupe

Date: 1967
Description: "A roller skating troupe rolls down Milwaukee Street."
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Model T in Winter

Date: 1918
Description: A boy holds the door handle of a circa 1916 Model T Ford with a modified radiator cover. A girl walks up the road toward the car. There is a bridge over a ...
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Flowers on Rock River

Date: 07 1991
Description: "Les Beck draws water from the Rock River to water eight colorful flower boxes put up by the Theresa Lions Club."
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Bridge Construction

Date: 08 1995
Description: "A new bridge was built where Zion Church Road intersects Highway 175. The road was later relocated and now passes on the right of the farm building on th...
Postcard

Columbia Avenue

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Description: View looking up Columbia Avenue, with the Merchants Bank on the left, and a mill, and a church further down on the right. Automobiles are parked along the ...
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Gisholt Factory on East Washington Avenue

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Description: View across East Washington Avenue towards the Gisholt factory at the intersection of Baldwin Street. There is an enclosed skybridge (called an "overhead" ...

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