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Kleinstueber Machine Shop

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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...
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Chanticleer Building

Date: 02 21 1930
Description: Chanticleer Orchestra managers, each with a dog at his side, sitting on the front steps of a building with an awning overhead that reads "Chanticleer."
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King Street Arcade

Date: 07 29 1941
Description: View of mezzanine inside the Capital City Bank Building, 111 King Street. Also known as King Street Arcade.
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Easter Lily Display

Date: 04 14 1927
Description: Display of Easter Lilies at the University Floral Company, located at 723 University Avenue.
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Gesell Photographic Studio

Date: 1895
Description: Street with Gesell Photographic Studio, which is built into the side of a bluff, about 1895. His studio was on Main Street from 1877-1903. Miller and Co. L...
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Family by Onon Bjorn Dahle Store

Date: 1872
Description: A family standing on the porch of the Onon Bjorn Dahle Store. The store has a second floor balcony across the front, and steps and a fence on the right sid...
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Stairway Construction

Date: 10 30 1946
Description: Close-up view from the top of an open stairway construction area showing steps and other materials at the Four Lakes Sports Company. Taken for the Continen...
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Ivey and Webb General Store in British Hollow

Date: 1930
Description: Ivey and Webb general store, with trees and a hill behind, and in front a man standing under the store's awning.
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Pioneer Block before the Fire

Date: 1880
Description: Three or four-story brick building, with a "Drug Book Store" sign at the front, and a stair wrapping around the side of the building up to a balcony. A man...
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Main Street

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Description: Main Street from the Park Hotel.
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Brisbois Fur Trading Post

Date: 1925
Description: Former building of the Astor Company, also known as the Brisbois Fur Trading Post. At the time this image was made, the structure was occupied by Ben Schau...
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Brisbois Fur Trading Post

Date: 1920
Description: Former building of the Astor Company, also known as the Brisbois Fur Trading Post. At the time this photograph was taken, the structure was occupied by Ben...
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White Front Grocery from Rear

Date: 04 1960
Description: Left rear view of White Front Grocery at 610-12 Mound Street in the Grrenbush neighborhood.
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White Front Grocery from Rear

Date: 04 1960
Description: Right rear view of White Front Grocery at 610-12 Mound Street in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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Men Posing on Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of group of men posing in front of the newly built W.H. Murphy building on the corner of Main Street and West Montello Street. Photograph was...
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Telephone Operators Posing on Steps

Date: 1911
Description: Four telephone operators pose on the steps of the Black River Falls Exchange Office Building. The second woman from the bottom is probably Mrs. W.E. (Hagen...
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Interior View of Showroom at Breslau Branch House

Date: 1935
Description: Staircase off of a showroom at International Harvester's branch house at Breslau, Germany. Ironwork over the staircase includes an IH logo. A woman, seen t...
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F. Dohmen Company

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of (Floor No. 3) The F. Dohmen Company Wholesale Druggists. A salesman's catalog with removable screwed bindings and pages of note paper bound be...
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Small Town Residence

Date: 09 25 1965
Description: View of a stairway leading up to a second-story residence. Several other commercial and private buildings are visible in the background down a hill.
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Scheffler and Wegeman Storefront

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Description: View from road of Schiffler and Wegemann Tailoring and Clothing House building on corner. The storefront is at Third and Main Streets. On the left side of ...

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