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Opera House

Date: 1880
Description: The Opera House at the corner of Washington (now Main) and North Mill Streets. A sign at the back of the building reads: "Printing." A barber pole is in fr...
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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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New Orleans Street Scene

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Description: New Orleans street scene. Pedestrians can be seen on the sidewalks, and a streetcar can be seen in the distance. "Moskau Cabinet Works, door and window scr...
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View Down Canal Street

Date: 1906
Description: View down Canal Street in New Orleans. View is toward the lake from Camp/Chartres Streets. The first building on the right reads "May's Drug Store". The tw...
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Crowd on Main Street

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Description: View down center of unpaved street towards a crowd gathering on patriotically decorated Main Street. The Badger State Banner is at the left, the hom...
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French Lumber Company Building on Street Corner

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Description: View form across street of the French Lumber Company, a two-story brick building with the Chicago Dental Parlors occupying the second floor, on a street co...
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Ludden's Big White Store

Date: 1912
Description: The facade of Ludden's Big White Store. The building features two bay windows, two stories, and two large display windows. The window displays umbrellas, d...
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Christmas Address

Date: 1920
Description: Men and children gather around a man giving a Christmas address. Coweta County Courthouse can be seen beyond the crowd, a Neoclassical Revival building des...
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Four Boys in Costumes

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Description: Four boys dressed in Indian costumes sit in a row on the concrete steps to a large porch of a house. A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch on t...
Postcard

Residence of W.E. Porter

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Description: Photographic postcard of W.E. Porter's two-story house. The house has fancy trim. Three women are seated in the grass on the left, and a boy and girl are o...
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Christmas Joy

Date: 1939
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a man and three boys positioning a ladder to hang holiday decorations on the exterior of the settle...
Postcard

Al. Ringling Theatre

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the theater. There are posters in front of the entrance. A current attraction is George Fawcett in "The Frame...
Postcard

Ureck's Auditorium Hotel, Brown's Lake

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Description: View of the exterior of a hotel with a porch. People on posing on the sidewalk in front. Caption reads: "Ureck's Auditorium Hotel, Brown's Lake."
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Martin K. Dahl House

Date: 1885
Description: Martin K. Dahl, far left, sits with three women around a table which has been set in front of an iron fence which encloses a manicured yard. Two of the wom...
Postcard

522 First Avenue

Date: 1908
Description: View from the street of three people standing in front of a small house. There is a small Oeil-de-boeuf window in the upper story. The windows have shutter...
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Badger Candy Kitchen and E.W. Parker

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Main Street towards the Badger Candy Kitchen (left) and E.W. Parker Jewelry (right). The facades of both buildings have similar decorative...
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J.J. Coppernell Business Block

Date: 1973
Description: View across West Main Street towards the three-story J.J. Coppernell Business Block, which includes the Design Art Gallery Boutique. The facade has decorat...
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Schmitt and DeLonge Building, and Furs by Hershleder

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards two buildings. The one on the left is the Schmitt and DeLonge Building, and on the ground floor is Chesty's (left), and Ca...
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Castle and Doyle Building and Francis Vallander Building

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street, on the corner of North Fairchild Street, towards the Castle and Doyle Building and the Francis Vallander Building. The Castle and...
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Yost-Kessinich Department Store on State Street

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street, on the corner of North Fairchild Street, towards the Yost-Kessenichs Department Store. The facade of the building is in the Beaux...

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