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E.S. Purdy's Drugstore

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Description: Interior view of the E.S. Purdy Drugstore, including four employees.
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Doylestown Bank After Robbery

Date: 09 11 1931
Description: Crowd standing on the street and sidewalk in front of the Doylestown Bank after a robbery.
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Alfred Deering in front of Doylestown Bank

Date: 09 11 1931
Description: Alfred Deering, on the steps in front of the Doylestown Bank, holding his hat. He received a wound to the head during the Doylestown bank robbery. Men are ...
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Doylestown Bank Robbery, Gunshot Victim

Date: 09 11 1931
Description: Portrait of W.J. Baw, Doylestown Bank robbery gunshot victim, who was shot through the wrist as he attempted, with only a brick as a weapon, to attack one ...
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Sign for Lost Canyon

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Description: Sign for Lost Canyon, with people standing near a car in the foreground.
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Contract Signing for Wisconsin Dells Minirama

Date: 09 1959
Description: Contract Signing for Wisconsin Dells Minirama. The man on the left is a banker, the man with eyeglasses is Ted Saunders, and the women are Ruth Bennett Dye...
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Uncle Al Fills 'Em Up

Date: 1928
Description: Man pumps gas into an automobile at the Consolidated Boat Co. There is advertising for Coca-Cola, Baby Ruth, and Occident Flour on the side of the small fr...
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Strikers in Cucumber Field

Date: 1967
Description: A group of young migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field in a Chevy station wagon for a union rally in Portage. Three children are looking at the ca...
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Strikers Leaving Field

Date: 1967
Description: Migrant farm laborers leaving a cucumber field to strike. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an inde...
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Beach at Pine Glen Properties

Date: 1931
Description: View of a beach with a group of sunbathers posing around a large billboard that reads: "The only safe clean sandy beach in the Dells."
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Bank Robbery at Dane

Date: 04 28 1961
Description: Undersheriff Jack Leslie (left) receiving information from Herbert Wagner, manager of the Dane branch of the State Bank of Lodi, about the recent robbery o...
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Newsletter Photo Souvenir

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Description: Front page of the fake, humorous newsletter titled Dells Events. The front page includes a sepia-toned picture of a girl (Jessica Trumble) dressed a...

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