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| Description: | A boy on a Milwaukee street is driving a goat cart with an advertisement for Silverstone the tailor. Several on-lookers are watching from the left hand sid... |
| Date: | 10 26 1935 |
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| Description: | View towards the intersection of State, Johnson and Henry Streets (looking toward Henry Street), 245 State Street. |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Ole Olson and Chic Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932" at the Orpheum. |
| Date: | 04 16 1932 |
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| Description: | Olson & Johnson milking cows in front of the Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, promoting their show "Atrocities of 1932." |
| Date: | 04 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking across street towards a crowd waiting to attend the opening of the Black Furniture Company's bankrupt sale at Leath's furniture store... |
| Date: | 05 09 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the front of the Strand Theatre, showing people in line to enter. There is a car with a sign on the roof that is advertising "Shipmates." 16 E. Mif... |
| Date: | 08 15 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man in uniform leading a small parade of children who are holding a sign advertising the movie: "Rain or Shine" playing at the RKO Capit... |
| Date: | 09 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of customers standing in line on the sidewalk waiting to purchase shotgun shells at Berg Sporting Goods Store, 2123 Atwood Avenue. O... |
| Date: | 09 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Crowd in front of the Union Trust Co. building, 1 West Main Street, during the balloon barrage in which balloons are being released with $2 merchandise cou... |
| Date: | 05 20 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin ROTC marching units moving south down South Carroll street during a parade commemorating Armed Forces Day. The Episcopal cathedral ... |
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| Description: | Christ M. Stauffer appearing as Uncle Sam, riding a horse, during the Cheese Day parade. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| 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.," "... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry G. Holden demonstrates the benefits of growing alfalfa to a group of men, women, and children standing in a crossroads in a commercial area... |
| Date: | 04 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of street scene of a run on the First National Bank. The sidewalk is crowded with people, spilling into the street. A horse-drawn buggy is dr... |
| Date: | 07 18 1954 |
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| Description: | An old truck operated by the Richard Mulcahy Post 47 of Portage spraying water on the crowd at the American Legion parade around Capitol Square. The view i... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of students in a school marching band in a parade marching down Main Street. Students are wearing marching band uniforms and are playing inst... |
| Date: | 06 08 1959 |
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| Description: | 4-H members, some of them dressed in old-fashioned costumes, serving homemade cakes and donated ice cream at an ice cream social on the Capitol Square. Pro... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of teenage boys racing down the street during the Hustler Harvest Festival. Both sides of the street are lined with crowd... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from sidewalk of a crowd of men, women and children gathered about the stalls at the Hustler Harvest Festival. On the left side thre... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Four men struggle to move barrels down the dirt main street of Hustler. It looks like a close race. The large crowd watches attentively. Across the street ... |
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