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Billboards on Water Street

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Description: Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra...
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Horses Pull Wagon with Wooden Beams

Date: 1919
Description: A man drives a wagon pulled by two horses down a dirt road near a large billboard. The wagon is filled with wooden beams. The sign on the side of the road ...
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Snow Removal on City Street

Date: 02 18 1926
Description: A man using a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to load snow from a city street into a horse-drawn wagon. A group of men are watching from the sidewalk, and ...
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Snow Removal on City Street

Date: 02 18 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to load snow from a city street into a horse-drawn wagon while another man looks on.
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Snow Removal

Date: 02 18 1926
Description: Man using a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to load snow into a horse-drawn wagon on a city street. A billboard advertising the "Grizzard System...
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View down Water Street

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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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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
Description: Part of a United Public Workers parade/demonstration on a downtown city street. A horse-drawn wagon carries some participants. Parade signs read "No Swivel...
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Saloon

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Description: View across road of a man with his horse outside the Bar Room. There is a large circus advertisement with elephants and lions painted on the wall of the bu...
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North Main Street

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Description: View down commercial Main Street, looking north. A pedestrian (blurred from movement) is crossing the street along what appear to be railroad tracks. There...
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Topeka Railroad Depot

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of Topeka Railroad Depot on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. To the left of the station stands the Wells Fargo & Company Express buil...
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Ringling Brothers Circus

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a calliope and chariot riders in a circus parade, probably the Ringl...
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Ringling Brothers Circus

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of a crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a bell wagon pass in a circus parade, probably the Ringling Brothe...
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Ringling Brothers Circus

Date: 08 17 1892
Description: Elevated view of a crowd gathered at the intersection of First and Main Streets to watch a bandwagon and animal cage pass in a circus parade. Probably the ...
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Wisconsin Telephone Co. Installation Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: Wisconsin Telephone Company horse-drawn service and installation wagon in front of the Telephone Building. Two men sit in the wagon. A man stands in the do...
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Dr. W.H. Perrigo Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist

Date: 1907
Description: A horse-drawn cart, marked B.C. Horsch, is waiting near Dr. W.H. Perrigo's veterinary and dental business in the S. Sixth Street neighborhood in Milwaukee....
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Man Driving Team of Two Horses

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Description: A man and his dog are sitting on a cart pulled by two horses at a rural intersection on a muddy road. There is a corner of a building with a billboard on t...
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Horse-Drawn Cultipackers

Date: 06 10 1915
Description: View from front of a team of two horses pulling a man on a cultipacker in a field. There are buildings in the background on the left and right, and on the ...

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