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Hollywood Beach Hotel

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Description: Exterior of the Hollywood Beach Hotel in Hollywood, Florida with of six men and a woman on the balcony and on the sidewalk. The hotel exterior features orn...
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Rathskeller Inc. Liquor Store Interior

Date: 04 19 1934
Description: Rathskeller Inc., 122 E. Washington Avenue, liquor store interior, framed with arches, with a clerk behind the counter.
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Advertisement for Rathskeller Inc. Liquor Store

Date: 04 19 1934
Description: Rathskeller Inc., 122 E. Washington Avenue, liquor store interior, framed with arches, and a clerk behind the counter. Includes an advertising banner that ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Rotunda

Date: 1870
Description: View of the only known view of the first floor Rotunda of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, a remarkable stereograph by Dane County photographer Andreas L...
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Northern Hospital for the Insane's Fire Fighting Department

Date: 1893
Description: Group portrait of the Northern Hospital for the Insane's institutional fire fighting department posed outside the building. Horse-drawn transport cart and ...
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Luther College Dining Hall

Date: 1876
Description: Elevated view of the Luther College dining hall interior. A large group of male students are seated in the hall which has arched windows and walls.
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St. Francis Xavier Cathedral

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Description: Elevated view of people in the pews facing towards the altar of the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral.
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Speaker and Crowd

Date: 1940
Description: View from across street of a crowd sitting on the porch, lawn and street in front of the Elks Lodge (Al. Ringling house) listening to a speaker standing at...
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Speaker at Elks Lodge

Date: 1940
Description: A stocky man in a white suit stands at a lectern and microphone in front of the Elks Lodge (Al. Ringling home). Other men and women sit on the platform. A ...
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Porch at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: View from grounds toward patients sitting on the porch of the rotunda at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. A nurse stands near ...
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Our Lady of the Valley

Date: 1950
Description: A Trappist monk in black robes stands in front of an arched doorway at the abbey of Our Lady of the Valley. The stone columns around him have floral capita...
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Hotel Agua Caliente

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Description: View of a band and dancers at Hotel Agua Caliente, opened in 1928 and dedicated by Wayne McAllister in Tijuana, Mexico. Guests sit at dining tables on the ...
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The Taj Mahal

Date: 09 1951
Description: Tourists at the Taj Mahal.
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Mansion House

Date: 1910
Description: Interior of a restaurant at a mansion house. A man at the left leans against a counter, and two women stand behind a shelf filled with candy. Tables and c...
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World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: A view of the World's Columbian Exposition mounted on a cardboard album page, looking east from the Transportation Building. On the right are the Mines Bui...
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Old St. Louis Hotel Slave Block

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Description: A man and a woman stand in front of archways at the Old St. Louis Hotel Slave Block. The woman points to something overhead.
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Courthouse and Jail

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Description: View of the Green Lake County Courthouse and Jail. Two children stand on the steps of the jail, built in 1869. The courthouse, built in 1863, is on the rig...
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Limousine on Havana Street

Date: 1959
Description: Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve...
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International Builds Trucks for Every Class of Hauling

Date: 1938
Description: International truck advertisement featuring a color illustration of a truck in what appears to be an exotic foreign location. Includes the text: "Internati...
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Inauguration Ceremony

Date: 01 1985
Description: Inauguration ceremony in which Dwight York was sworn into the Assembly.

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