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| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of hotel. On the lower right above the entrance is a sign for the Empire Room. Automobiles are parked on the street. A flag pole without a fl... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A corner store with a large electric sign on top. Men are on the sidewalk in front of the store, and a horse-drawn vehicle and bicycles are on the right. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Grand Avenue at 4th Street looking east. An electric sign for the Alhambra Theatre is in the center. Pedestrians are crossing the road and are on the sidew... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Grand Avenue at 4th Street looking east. The Alhambra Theatre is on the left. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks, and horse-drawn vehicles are on... |
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| Description: | Men with several early twentieth-century race cars are parked along a city street. Numbers are painted on the front of the cars. One man is standing on ste... |
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| Description: | A large line of motorcycles are parked along the road. Many people are standing by the bikes. |
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| Description: | A large crowd of children are gathered outside the Alhambra theater. The children, all boys, fill the sidewalk, and are being herded by a man on the left. ... |
| Date: | 11 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Crowd at the corner of State, West Mifflin and North Carroll Streets watching the Santa Parade, sponsored by the Madison Business Association and the Junio... |
| Date: | 02 02 1946 |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards a line of people formed down and around a street corner at the Uptown Theatre. The marquee advertises showings of "San Ant... |
| Date: | 12 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Night view of display window of gas station featuring a cardboard easel-back display of Santa Claus, and an artificial fireplace among other decorations, a... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men load cargo into an International truck outside a Kurzon Appliances and Electrical Supplies building. Text on the truck reads: "Joseph Kurzon Inc. W... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A white International Metro owned by Borck and Stevens bakery is parked in front of the market which is on a street corner. The brick building has two elec... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man standing with a pie container next to an International model D-15-M truck with Metro body. According to the original caption, "Chef Wright" is the driv... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | An International truck axle and engine sit on display in what appears to be a dealership showroom. A truck body is in the background. This may be part of I... |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 30-ton type "AN" bridge crane with a 5-ton type "A" trolley at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair in either the Palace of Electricity ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View through trees from across a tree-lined Langdon Street of the YMCA. Part of the Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) is also visible on the right. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | The front entrance of the Greendale Theater with other storefronts visible. The marquee reads "Greendale Theater, Air Conditioned For Comfort, New Show Eve... |
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| Description: | Night view of gift shops, restaurants, and other attractions in a two-story shopping plaza. Several cars are parked along the curb beneath a streetlight in... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Uphoff's Motel taken from across the street. The image shows a round section that was part of the original building known as Uphoff's Rotu... |
| Date: | 05 21 1935 |
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| Description: | A man handles boxes of beer on the side of an International C-35 truck used by the Cammarano Brothers company. The truck has a wooden sign over the back re... |
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