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Monthly Market Fair

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of farmer's wagons, teams, and pedestrian traffic crowd Princeton's main street for the monthly market fair. Some snow is on the ground and a...
Photograph

State Street Winter Scene

Date: 1936
Description: Winter scene with people walking in the snow past a lamppost down State and Henry Streets, Madison, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the backgr...
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Costume Parade

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view of a costume parade on State Street, at the corner of State Street and Gilman Street. On both sides of the street are drugstores. The one on ...
Photograph

Street in Business District

Date: 1921
Description: View down middle of main street of the business district. Automobiles are parked along the curb and pedestrians are on the sidewalk.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1922
Description: View down main street with storefronts on both sides, with large power lines along the sidewalks stretching into the distance, and a hill in the background...
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Photographer J. Robert Tayor

Date: 1928
Description: Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c...
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Downtown Milwaukee

Date: 1912
Description: Street cars and busy pedestrian traffic mingle in this view of the 200 West Water Street block in downtown Milwaukee.
Photograph

Turn of the Century Street Scene

Date: 1900
Description: Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon, stand on a street next to a broad sidewalk in a commercial district. The storefronts of P.L. McQuillan and Con...
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Women in the Rain

Date: 1900
Description: Three women in hats and long skirts walk with umbrellas in the rain.
Photograph

Grand Avenue

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Grand Avenue. A number of horse-drawn carriages are lined up near a bridge.
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Capital Times Car in front of Wextark Store

Date: 08 10 1930
Description: View across street towards two men standing at the side of the Capital Times car in front of the Wextark store, 225 State Street. Stewart Smart Shop is on ...
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Wauwatosa Railroad Station

Date: 10 30 1944
Description: View across railroads tracks towards the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad station. A number of children and adults are standing around the station. S...
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International Model 31 Truck

Date: 05 1921
Description: International Model 31 truck parked on an urban street in front of a Pine Tree Milker store and a National Cash Register store. A woman is walking by on th...
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View of 400 Block of State Street

Date: 1929
Description: View of T. Gullman Shoes, Simon Brothers Vegetables, and H.J. Minch Flour, Feed, Grain and Hay on the north corner of the 400 block of State Street. There ...
Photograph

S.S. Kresge Store on Main Street

Date: 1954
Description: S.S. Kresge storefront and Miller's clothing store on Main Street.
Book or Pamphlet

International Light-Duty Trucks

Date: 1960
Description: Front cover, featuring color illustration, of an advertising brochure for the 1960 line of International B-series light-duty trucks, conventional and four-...
Postcard

Business Section of Amery

Date: 1905
Description: Business section of downtown. View across unpaved road towards business along the left. A group of children and adults are posing standing in the road nea...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1907
Description: View down Main Street, with a hotel on the left side and horse-drawn wagons on the unpaved street. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Main S...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1915
Description: Unpaved Main Street with many storefronts and a hotel on the right hand side. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Main Street, Arcadia, Wis".
Photograph

Argonne

Date: 1915
Description: View down the unpaved main street of Argonne. The inn in the right foreground was the Commercial House. Across the street, the first building on the left...

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