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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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Docked Boats

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Description: A view of small boats docked at a waterfront market in Tampico, Mexico showing a crowd of men in front of a waterfront warehouse, a steel bridge in the bac...
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Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: Street scene showing a horse-drawn bus and pedestrians on a street. Signs read: "Music Hall, 1885" "Adair Brothers" and "E.H. Mobley Millinery."
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Island Park

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Description: A crowd of people gathered on a road and seen from a distance in Island park. A few people stand on the bridge in the foreground and tall trees without th...
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Playland Lake Boat House

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Description: View across water toward s large boathouse with a crowd of people in front, and an excursion boat in the foreground on Playland lake. Caption reads: "Roat ...
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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 Watching Elephant Parade

Date: 1910
Description: A crowd watches a parade of people riding elephants down the street. A cable car and horse-drawn carts are nearby. Caption reads: "N.E. Cor. Square, Oskalo...
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Central Square

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of crowds in the central square surrounding arriving trolley cars. Caption reads: "Central Square, Gorham, ME. Cars Just In."
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Chautauqua Week

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Description: Elevated view of a parade on a main city street during Chautauqua Week. Caption reads: "Chautauqua Week, Somerset, PA."
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Graf Zeppelin

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a crowd surrounding the Graf Zeppelin inside a hangar. (It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin...
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Tourists Arriving on a Steamship

Date: 1910
Description: View of tourists arriving on steamship. Many passengers are on the ship and the dock.
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Passengers Arriving on White Pass Steamer

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Description: View of passengers disembarking from a White Pass steamer ship in Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada. The ship is marked: "Dawson." Piled wood is on the front...
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Mississippi Riverboat Landing

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Description: View from shoreline towards a docked Mississippi riverboat. Passengers are disembarking from the ship, and a large crowd is gathered on shore, with some pe...
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Salamanca Ferry

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Description: View of the ferry carrying passengers across the Allegheny River near Salamanca, New York's Island Park. Many passengers are on board the ferry, and in the...
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Train Arriving at the Depot

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Description: The station at Sylvan Beach was essential in providing transportation to central New York's recreational resort area. Caption reads: "Train Time. Sylvan Be...
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Sulphur Well and Natural Gas

Date: 1909
Description: A crowd observes a sulphur well and natural gas at Toyah Basin, the location of the discovery of Permian gypsum deposits in 1854.
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Crowd Outside Indian Trading Store

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Description: Elevated view of large crowd congregating with horse-drawn buggies outside of W.H. Robinson, an Indian trading store. Caption reads: "W.H. Robinson Indian ...
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"Spirit of St. Louis"

Date: 08 22 1927
Description: The "Spirit of St. Louis," in which Charles Lindbergh made the first solo Atlantic crossing, arrives in Madison, where it was greeted by crowds.
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Crowd of Workers on Strike

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Description: View from across street of a crowd of workers on strike, gathered in a parking lot near a railroad crossing.
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Marching Workers on Strike

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Description: A group of striking workers march together carrying signs near a railroad crossing.

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