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Entrance to Hub Building

Date: 12 15 1935
Description: Entrance to Hub Building, 24 West Mifflin Street, showing Maiden Beauty Shop sign and part of Menges Pharmacy with a Coca-Cola sign.
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U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 01 15 1929
Description: Finished face brickwork at opening F-31 looking northeast.
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Unloading Bank Vault Door

Date: 07 05 1929
Description: Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch.
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Unloading Bank Vault Door

Date: 07 05 1929
Description: Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch.
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Door of Hawks Tavern

Date: 1920
Description: Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, front door entrance.
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Okauchee House

Date: 1936
Description: Okauchee House main entrance detail. Printed on plaque: "880".
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Hadfield Penfield Grader

Date: 08 25 1925
Description: A man is standing on a Hadfield Penfield one-man grader outside the entrance to a building.
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Nels A. Anderson, Madison Postman

Date: 12 29 1950
Description: U.S. postman Nels A. Anderson delivers mail to a door marked "15." Anderson began delivering mail in Madison in 1912 and is the city's senior postman.
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Delivery Truck Outside Grocery Store

Date: 1913
Description: International Model M delivery truck operated by William Brandfellner groceries parked outside the storefront. Produce is visible through the storefront, a...
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International Model E Truck in Snow

Date: 1914
Description: Man driving an International Model E truck through snow on road in urban residential area. The truck was operated by the Bunck & Agerbeck company whose ser...
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The Daniel Boone Tavern

Date: 1920
Description: A view of the entrance to the Daniel Boone Tavern, possibly from 1920.
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Camp Upton

Date: 1918
Description: Men stand outside the Post Exchange Store at Camp Upton, built in 1917.
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The Brau Haus

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Description: Two men stand in a doorway near a potted plant outside the Brau Haus, a German-American Rathskeller. The lettering painted on the window reads, "1563 York...
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Poland Spring House

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Description: Exterior of Poland Spring House, a six-story hotel on which construction began in 1875. View includes the main drive and entrance to the hotel. One space...
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The Curtis Hotel

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Description: Exterior of the Curtis Hotel, a Victorian era building expanded in 1883. Horse-drawn carriages can be seen parked underneath an awning, and a man stands o...
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Hotel Massasoit

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Description: Exterior of Hotel Massasoit, built in 1887. The wooden building features a long porch and balcony. To the left of the hotel, an automobile is parked.
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Oak Bluffs Hotel

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Description: View of Oak Bluffs Hotel from a waterfront boardwalk. Pedestrians walk along the boardwalk in front of the hotel and furniture and other luggage stands in...
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The Griswold

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Description: Exterior of the Griswold, a hotel which opened in 1906. The entrance features an elaborate pavilion of the Corinthian order. A porch continues the length...
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Hilltop Inn

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Description: View of the rear porches and balconies at Hilltop Inn, built in 1910. Trees and other plants surround the porches where wicker chairs and potted plants ar...
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Montauk Manor

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Description: Guests walk toward the entrance of Montauk Manner and automobiles are parked in front of the building. The English Tudor-style hotel opened in 1927.

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