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| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Half plate daguerreotype, with view across water of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin harbor showing the bridge over the Fox River. Moored on the opposite shore are t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Municipal Market, which was built in 1910 but not operated successfully until July 1917 when it was run by a group of women from the D... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of the Johnson Wax Research and Development Tower under construction. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A steam fire engine of Milwaukee's Fire Company #2 drawn by three white horses racing to a fire. Prior motor driven fire equipment was a greater danger tha... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of a view from the Wisconsin State Capitol (which was the fourth State Capitol and the third in Madison) showing the Hotel Loraine and W... |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the west side of East Water Street. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Charles Pfeifer's Drugstore, founded in 1858. From left to right are Charles Pfeifer, Fred Pfeifer, Mrs. Adam Heeb, Fulda Pfeifer, Mrs. Ch... |
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| Description: | View looking south down Main Street, which is lined with commercial business. Automobiles are parked at an angle on both sides of the street. Caption reads... |
| Date: | 03 11 1949 |
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| Description: | A delivery boy straddles his bicycle, ready to make a delivery of medicine for the Pekin Prescription Laboratory. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | First electric street railway service in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view down Wisconsin Avenue looking west, with the RKO Riverside Theatre on the right, and a large Christmas sign on the corner of a building on th... |
| Date: | 04 1973 |
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| Description: | A Marlboro cigarette billboard advertisement looms over King Street. |
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| Description: | Two men stand in front of the Hand Car Shop, which was built in 1916. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View of the Grantsburg Drug Company. Caption reads: "Grantsburg Drug Co., Grantsburg, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Corner of Arndt and Doty streets, showing one of the early electric street cars in Wisconsin. The tower, the bottom of which shows in the picture, was one ... |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Main St. Looking West. Augusta, Wis." Livesey Drugs is on the left side of the street. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Front view of C.F. Rau's furniture store, with the owners and employees sitting in front of the store. Apparently, the store also performs undertaking. The... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the monthly Stock Fair. The roof of a building is in the left foreground. Horse-drawn wagons line the street, and there is a large buildin... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Ellsworth Block on North Pinckney Street between East Washington and East Mifflin Streets as seen from the Capitol Park. Storefronts include the Dry Goods ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pinckney Street view with the edge of the Capitol grounds on the right. A streetcar is in the center of the street. Storefronts with their awnings over the... |
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