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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...
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Panama-Pacific Exposition

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of crowd on Palm Avenue at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Fransisco, California, 1915. Several ornate buildings can be seen near the cr...
Poster

Travel By Train Travel Poster: Fifth Avenue, New York

Date: 1932
Description: An original lithograph promoting Fifth Avenue in New York as "The World's Greatest Shopping Street," and to get there by way of the train. The poster depic...
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Main Street

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Description: Elevated view of Main Street. City scene showing rows of parked cars, tall buildings, pedestrians, trolleys and advertising signs.
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Grand Avenue

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Description: Street level view of Grand Avenue showing a trolley, a crosswalk, crowded sidewalks and tall buildings.
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Bustling Street Scene

Date: 1905
Description: Busy street with automobiles, pedestrians and a horse-drawn cart. Streetcar tracks are in the center of the street. Business signs read: "W.A. Gill Co.," "...
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Crowd in Balboa Park

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Description: A crowd walks down a road in Balboa Park, located at the Plaza de Panama. Elaborately decorated buildings line both sides of the road.
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Davis Street

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Description: View down Davis Street, a busy downtown area, looking East. Crowds stand on both sides of the road near storefronts.
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Refugees after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: A crowd of pedestrians, trucks, and cyclists on a road waiting to go through an arch in a damaged building amid the post-Tet destruction in Hue.
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Bridge on the Perfume River

Date: 1968
Description: Pedestrians file single file across the make-shift repairs to the bridge over the Perfume River at Hue. The bridge was bombed by the Vietcong during the Te...
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Troitski Prospect

Date: 1918
Description: The main thoroughfare of Archangel, Russia, called the Troitski Prospect. It shows the electric street car traveling through the town as well as crowds of ...
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Toboggan Slide

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy road towards a crowd of people gathered at the base of a toboggan slide. A group at the top is preparing to go down the slide. The adjacent...
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"Foreign Correspondent" Premiere

Date: 1940
Description: Slightly elevated view from street corner at Broadway and West 50th Street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when it was screening the movie "Foreign C...
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Parade

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Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of a parade marching through town. Many of the participants are wearing uniforms, and some are carrying musical instruments...

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