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| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family of seven is sitting in the foreground around a table covered with books and flowers. Three young girls are sitting on the ground in front of the t... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family playing croquet in the yard of a side gable frame house with a porch. A birdcage is hanging from the porch and a young girl is clutching a doll. A... |
| Date: | 05 1975 |
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| Description: | Crowd at the Mifflin Street block party. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The Smith M. Jacobs Flour and Feed Store (left) and residence (right), 301 and 303 Monroe Street. The address renumbered within the next five years to 1701... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A man uses an International Harvester engine to power a saw. The man is cutting lumber while a child watches from the background. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an International RA-140 milk delivery truck parked along the side of the road, with a milkman in the driver's seat. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A horse and wagon for the Milwaukee Brewery Co. and a car are parked on the road near the curb. The road is lined with residences. |
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| Description: | Refugees patronizing a "beer-bar," run by invalids at a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. |
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| Description: | Ice cream being sold outside of a "beer-bar" at a Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the... |
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| Description: | Refugees at a Displaced Persons camp celebrate a soccer victory over another D.P. camp team; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man standing at the back of an International Metro truck with a basket of bread. The truck includes the text: "Jaeger's / Butter-Nut is fresh bread". "Ha... |
| Date: | 04 09 1935 |
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| Description: | A man unloads bags from the bed of an International Model C-30 truck with a special express body used by Weinstein Bros. fruit and produce dealers. The tru... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by Robertson's Bakery is parked in the driveway of a residence as the truck's driver delivers bread to a woman and two children... |
| Date: | 05 25 1927 |
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| Description: | A boy is holding a drinking glass up to the spout of a cream separator as a man is pouring a metal milk pail into the device. A young girl is sitting on a ... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Julia, the cook, on the rolling machine pulled by a team of horses wearing fly-nets. She is wearing a full-length dress and holding a whip in her right han... |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Bus operated by the Portage County Commission on Aging and its driver. The bus took senior citizens to lunch at the Senior Center and provided other servic... |
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| Description: | Two children posing in front of a large snowman in front of a brick building. The smaller child is sitting on a ladder supported by the older boy. The snow... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards a group of Russian men, women, children, and American soldiers at a water station. Behind the sled on the left is a dog, and horse... |
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| Description: | Put aside anything so futile All that fermented time spent and blackened, much obscured, is now restored with cheese and wine |
| Date: | 12 1906 |
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| Description: | Sarah Krueger and Henry Bigalk playing cards at a table set up outdoors next to the porch. Henry is smoking a pipe and has a large bottle of alcohol sticki... |
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