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| 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: | 11 25 1933 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Boy Scouts and adult leaders armed with tacks, hammers and posters to promote the sale of Christmas Seals. |
| Date: | 02 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Holstein-Friesian Association of America building, 448 W. Washington Avenue. There is a truck parked on the terrace, and a man is on a ladder in front of t... |
| 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: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The first ladder wagon of Capitol Hook and Ladder Company #1 posed at the corner of Pinckney and Main streets to show off the length of the wagon and the 4... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench. |
| Date: | 03 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking north across basement and first floor with part of the second floor under construction... |
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| Description: | Man on a ladder painting around a window of the Jackson County Bank. Arch over the intersection partially visible on the right side, as are several people ... |
| Date: | 06 15 1949 |
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| Description: | The Shell filling station, 341 State Street as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time adjudged the second most be... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | The Shell filling station, 341 State Street, as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time judged the second most bea... |
| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | An illustration depicting an early scene at the wharf in New York City. Many sailing ships are along the left side of the illustration, and "Leeds" is the ... |
| Date: | 06 18 1952 |
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| Description: | William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows... |
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| Description: | View down street of intersection at Main Street. The commercial street houses a bank, printing press, clothing shop, and hotel. A man makes repairs from a ... |
| Date: | 07 1991 |
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| Description: | "Les Beck draws water from the Rock River to water eight colorful flower boxes put up by the Theresa Lions Club." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View from road of a service station on the left with gas pumps. Next door is a meat market, a restaurant and a bank. A man is standing in front of the serv... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street of businesses along the right side. A young boy stands with a shovel near a pile of gravel near the barbershop, which has a barber's ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view taken from the roof of a building. Yards and dwellings in the foreground, with a church and school in the background. There are three or four... |
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| Description: | Five men posed on a firetruck in the middle of a street in a business district. Storefronts are in the background on the left and right. |
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| Description: | View from street towards a man posing sitting high up on a ladder set up on the sidewalk in front of the Jackson County Bank on the southwest corner of Mai... |
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