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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Buildings and storefronts in town near bridge and river. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View looking up the 200 block of State Street from West Johnson Street, showing the Wisconsin State Capitol dome under construction. The bank on the left i... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | State Street view looking toward the University of Wisconsin, with the 200 block in the foreground. The marquee for the Capitol Theatre reads "'Jealousy,' ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A parade turning the corner from Wisconsin Avenue on to the Capitol Square. A horse-drawn wagon in the foreground carries a May Pole and dancers from the K... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The corner of State and Fairchild Streets showing Yost-Kessnich's and the Capitol Theatre under construction. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin State Capitol, looking northeast. The Park Hotel on the corner of W. Main Street and S. Carroll Street, is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A winter scene showing the courthouse, schoolhouse, and Congregational Church, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | An early electric-powered streetcar in downtown Eau Claire, as it appeared about 1890-1895. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue looking west, with the RKO Riverside Theatre on the right, and a large Christmas sign on the corner of a building on th... |
| Date: | 04 1973 |
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| Description: | A Marlboro cigarette billboard advertisement looms over King Street. |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Main St. Looking West. Augusta, Wis." Livesey Drugs is on the left side of the street. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Ellsworth Block on North Pinckney Street between East Washington and East Mifflin Streets as seen from the Capitol Park. Storefronts include the Dry Goods ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a streetcar going down North Main Street. Raiche Drugstore sits on the right corner. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a University of Wisconsin-sponsored parade rolling down Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square. One of the banners appears to be about socia... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the neoclassical Gay Building, named after Madison developer Leonard W. Gay, at 16 N Carroll Street, one of the first high-rise buildings ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the north side of the 200 block of State Street between Fairchild and Henry Streets. This side was free of saloons. The south si... |
| Date: | 02 28 1940 |
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| Description: | The Parkway Theater with "Grapes of Wrath" display, 6-10 West Mifflin Street. |
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