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The Union House Tavern

Date: 1900
Description: The Union House Tavern, known as Schulkamp's Corner Saloon, 2601 East Washington Avenue at Milwaukee Street. A group of men are standing on the porch holdi...
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I Like Ike

Date: 11 10 1956
Description: Bet winner and Eisenhower supporter Edwin L. Warner enjoys his payoff from bet loser and Adlai Stevenson backer John Shaat, as Shaat tows Warner along the ...
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Residential Construction with Teams of Horses

Date: 08 18 1926
Description: Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood.
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Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street.
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Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground.
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Ice Cream at the Corner Grocery

Date: 05 07 1964
Description: The corner grocery is a pleasant place for the pause that refreshes. Thaddeus Moore, 9, of 3271 N. 14th Street, had a cone. Anthony McMillon, 7, of 3287-A ...
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Delos And Marian Dudley on Cart

Date: 1911
Description: Delos and Marian Dudley riding cart on sidewalk at 1909 Regent Street. Randall School is probably the large building in the background.
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Belvidere Avenue

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Description: A view of Belvedere Avenue. The street is tree-lined, making the homes partially obscured. Men stand and pose in the middle ground, while three groups of c...
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Shorewood Hills Play School

Date: 06 24 1952
Description: Billy Beuscher, right, pulling Charles Schlatter in a wagon at the Shorewood Hills Play School, a summer recreation program at Shorewood Hills parks and sc...
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Recycling Man

Date: 05 08 2009
Description: James, a recycling man, poses with his wagon of recyclables.
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Men in Yard Weighing Bales of Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Men in a residential backyard using a hanging scale to weigh bales of cotton loaded on a wagon pulled by a team of work horses.
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Child in Wagon with Dogs

Date: 07 01 1909
Description: Stereograph of a child in a wagon with two dogs. Another dog sits behind him on the right, and a toy horse straddles the wagon tongue. The child is wearing...
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Three Boys with Wagon in Snow

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Description: Three boys pose outdoors in a field with snow. Two boys, one holding a stick or a whip, are sitting in a miniature wagon. The other boy is standing holding...
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Mired in Mud on a Dirt Road

Date: 05 19 1898
Description: Two men sit in a horse-drawn wagon mired in the mud on a dirt road. Several houses are in the background, with two women standing on a porch on the left, i...
Postcard

Telephone Company Workmen

Date: 1908
Description: Photographic postcard of telephone company workmen erecting telephone pole with a horse-drawn derrick.
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Neighborhood Scene

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Description: Outdoor view across lawn toward a European American woman posing standing on the porch of a wooden house. A girl is posing sitting on a wagon behind a wood...
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John Hahn Piano and Furniture Moving

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Description: View from the street of John Hahn standing on the right with a horse hitched to a passenger wagon. In the center is the furniture moving wagon he owns, in ...
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Two Boys in Soapbox Racer

Date: 08 26 1961
Description: Peter Schram, 10, sitting on a home-made race car while being pushed by Bruce Mills, 11. The boys built the racer from boards and wheels from an old coaste...
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Man Driving Horse-Drawn Wagon Filled with Fauerbach Barrels on Blount Street

Date: 1910
Description: Joseph Bossart driving a horse-drawn wagon loaded with 37 empty beer barrels is parked in front of the International Harvester building on S. Blount Street...
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North Baldwin Street from Johnson Street

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Description: Looking east down sidewalk running along East Johnson street towards three houses standing in a row on North Baldwin Street in the mid 1920s. On the right ...

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