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| Description: | Elevated view over bridge and river looking up Grand Avenue. Pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles and a street car are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
| Date: | 07 20 1987 |
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| Description: | A little girl offers her place at a fountain to a large Newfoundland-mix dog who takes a drink on a hot day. |
| Date: | 04 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters from neighboring communities help put out at a nighttime fire in the downtown business district. |
| Date: | 03 16 1919 |
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| Description: | View showing the flood conditions on city streets from the 1919 Flood on the Trempealeau River. Four men are surveying the damage. Caption reads: "Highwate... |
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| Description: | Billboards with advertising for the "Georgia Up-To-Date Minstrels" at the Opera House on Saturday, April 7. Bridge visible to the left. The J.J. McGillivra... |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Spectators and fireman at the Fitzgibbons building fire downtown. |
| Date: | 08 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters applying water to the burning Fitzgibbons building downtown. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Racine, Wis. in 1850." Artist's rendering of the view of the harbor with sailing ships, sailboats, rowboats and canoes. The Main Stre... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler addresses a group of volunteers assembled at the Wisconsin State Capitol as part of Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalio... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Lineup of parade vehicles at Law Park along Lake Monona for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. |
| 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: | A blurred image of a man as he is walking across the unpaved street which goes down to the Mississippi River. The Bay State House and more storefronts are ... |
| 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of men standing near a T-intersection. The three-story building on the left side of the intersection has a sandwich board advertising "Ice Cream." A m... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view down Main Street, with Lake Superior in the distance. There is a cafe on the left and bars on the right. Cars are parked along t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of a street scene. Groups of people are gathered along the sidewalks near storefronts. A building on the left has a painted sign... |
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| Description: | Star of our Jesus, so extra bright Make me a country child just for tonight Bur Grinnerung an die Jubiläumsfeier der Freien Gemeinde von Sauf ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | On Memorial Day American Legion Member Oliver Krueger drops a wreath into the Rock River. |
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| Description: | Commercial postcard with slightly elevated view of people on the boardwalk at Atlantic City with the Traymore Hotel in the background. Postmarked from Atla... |
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