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| Description: | Bill Payne driving a herd of large hogs through town on Main Street, possibly on the way to Adam Best's Butcher's Shop. Storefronts identified, from left t... |
| Date: | 10 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Portrait of George Stahl, chimney sweep, with a pipe in his mouth, and wearing a tall hat and carrying a bag and a rope around his shoulder. He is standing... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man unloading cases of 7-Up soda outside a delicatessen at the corner of Michigan and Northampton streets. Truck operated by Henry Guggenheimer. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men working on trolley car electrical wires (catenary) in the middle of a street. The men are standing on a platform in the back of an International Mo... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest. |
| 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: | 01 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
| Date: | 11 10 1937 |
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| Description: | Castle & Doyle Rex Moto Mixer truck delivering ready mixed concrete in the alley behind Dean Clinic, 113-115 N. Carroll Street, with five men looking on. |
| 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: | 11 22 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in the doorway of the East Side Motor Co. garage, 2305 Atwood Avenue, featuring Willard storage batteries, Pennzoil, and Eveready and ... |
| Date: | 11 22 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in the doorway of the East Side Motor Company garage, 2305 Atwood Avenue, featuring Willard storage batteries, Pennzoil, and Eveready ... |
| Date: | 08 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Originally the Evangelical Association's Immanuel Church, 106 North Hamilton Street, which was converted into a waiting room for the Jackson Clinic shown t... |
| Date: | 03 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction. View from the roof of Kruse's store towards two workmen and the construction house. |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking north, with steam shovel and other equipment. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. John... |
| Date: | 03 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater, 216 State Street, under construction, looking east, showing the back sides of buildings along State Street. |
| Date: | 07 07 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking southwest. |
| Date: | 08 05 1926 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking west. Holy Redeemer Catholic Church is in the background. Caption reads:... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot... |
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| Description: | Farmers driving their cattle to a stockyard near the Burlington Depot, a weekly occurrence. |
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