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The Old Post Office

Date: 08 01 1929
Description: The old U.S. Post Office and Federal Building at 4 East Mifflin Street, just months before it was torn down and replaced by Manchester's Department store. ...
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Horse-Drawn Float in Parade

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Description: Horse-drawn float of A.F. Werner, a local drugstore.
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Grove Street Businesses

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Description: Looking south on S. 5th Street from W. National Avenue. The church steeples in the background are St. Stephen's Lutheran (left), and St. Stanislaus Catholi...
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Main Street

Date: 1927
Description: View down Main Street lined with shops. Cars are sporadically parked along the curbs. There is a hotel, the Fritzstoldt tailor, soda fountain and drug stor...
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General Town View

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Description: Elevated view of the town and surrounding area. The brick building at the photograph's bottom center is labeled "Geren, Rish Art Studio" and was built in ...
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Part of Business Section

Date: 1917
Description: A retail street with the Terry Amerpohl Department Company, Will J. Smith — Rexall drugstore, a furniture store, and a church. A horse and buggy is parked ...
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Spring Green Street Scene

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Description: View from intersection towards a drugstore on the left corner. A service station with a sign that says "NASH" is next door. Further down is a house and wha...
Postcard

Fountain City

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Description: Elevated view of Fountain City, with a steep bluff in the background. In the foreground is a street corner with a drugstore and other storefronts. There ar...
Postcard

Main Street, looking east from Third

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Description: View of a central business district. A streetcar and automobiles are in the street. Street lamps are along the curbs, and pedestrians are walking on the st...
Postcard

Gay Bldg — Madison, Wis.

Date: 1914
Description: View across N. Carroll Street towards the Gay Building (now the Churchill Building), Madison's first skyscraper. A nine-story building located at 16 North ...
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An Ancient Land-mark

Date: 1895
Description: Stereograph of an old log structure surrounded by buildings, wagons and wagon parts, fences and trees. It was demolished about 1900. Text printed on the fr...

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