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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Group of people, including dwarfs and midgets, posing with "the worlds largest tire" in front of the RKO Orpheum Theatre as part of a promotion for Goodyea... |
| Date: | 06 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view above State Street of the Capitol Theatre, with construction nearly completed. |
| Date: | 07 09 1960 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of used car lot of Van Drisse Motors, a Ford dealer, at the intersection of Main and Monroe Streets. |
| Date: | 01 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
| Date: | 11 10 1937 |
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| Description: | Castle & Doyle Rex Moto Mixer truck delivering ready mixed concrete in the alley behind Dean Clinic, 113-115 N. Carroll Street, with five men looking on. |
| Date: | 12 13 1933 |
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| Description: | Meyers Tire & Accessory Co., 215 East Washington Avenue, with a shipment of new Federal truck tires piled on the sidewalk in the front of the building. Sno... |
| Date: | 04 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Crowd in front of Praga Furniture store, 203-207 King Street, at 1st Anniversary celebration. The Fess Hotel sign is along a doorway on the right. |
| Date: | 01 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Machine and Foundry road construction equipment, featuring a new portable rock crushing plant, on display at Road Show on Monona... |
| Date: | 11 02 1930 |
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| Description: | World's largest Goodyear tire in front of RKO Orpheum theater, 216 State Street, with six people viewing the tire. One man is on top of the tire holding a ... |
| Date: | 03 01 1927 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre, 211 State Street, under construction. View from the roof of Kruse's store towards two workmen and the construction house. |
| Date: | 04 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater construction, 216 State Street, looking north, with steam shovel and other equipment. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. John... |
| Date: | 03 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking west. Also shows Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 128 W. Johnson Street, Holy Redeemer Rectory,... |
| Date: | 03 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater, 216 State Street, under construction, looking east, showing the back sides of buildings along State Street. |
| Date: | 07 07 1926 |
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| Description: | Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking southwest. |
| Date: | 08 05 1926 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Orpheum Theater under construction, 216 State Street, looking west. Holy Redeemer Catholic Church is in the background. Caption reads:... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | View across road construction towards a horse-drawn trolley on railroad tracks on Racine Street. Men and children are standing near piles of road building ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | S.S. Kresge storefront and Miller's clothing store on Main Street. |
| Date: | 12 26 1946 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. building site, 122 West Main Street, looking southwest from alley toward West Main Street with construction worker in unfinished ba... |
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