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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Sanborn map showing the main street of Potosi, Wisconsin, with an inset for the Potosi Brewery. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Sanborn insurance map of the main street in Potosi, Wisconsin, with an inset for the Potosi Brewery. |
| Date: | 10 24 1930 |
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| Description: | Celebrating the first "Cheese Day" with a parade. A group of spectators gather on the sidewalk near a truck displaying a banner and stove in the back. |
| Date: | 10 05 1912 |
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| Description: | Tagged vegetables, including pumpkins, potatoes, corn, and etc., displayed on a shelf and floor in a room. |
| Date: | 05 1981 |
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| Description: | Quonset hut at Len's Feed and Fuel, North Third Street at East Furnace Street. |
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| Description: | An exterior view of the old brewery at Potosi. A man is walking down the street toward the building. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Ludden's Poultry and Eggs from the dirt road. The shop features a porch, gable roof, and fenced yard. There are wooden crates and barrels ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down middle of Main Street. The right side of the street features: Bloomington State Bank, Ira Fox Meat Market, C.H. Enke, Sprague's Recreation Parlor... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A man drives a team of horses pulling a wagon across a bridge. The man is standing atop the barreled goods, holding the reins. There is dung on the road. |
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| Description: | Exterior of a feed mill erected About 1840. There is an advertisement for Quaker Ful-O-Pep feed above the entrance. Two pickup trucks are parked outside. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The site of the Klindt-Geiger Canning Company, operated from 1893 to 1950. The factory features a water tower. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | The back of the Klindt-Geiger Canning Company grounds. The site includes a two-story factory, a silo, and a water tower. There is a reel lawn mower lying o... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of the Cassville depot. A boy or man sits on a bench in front of the depot. |
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| Description: | A man poses outdoors in front of a cheese factory. Behind him next to the building is a large wooden tub on stilts, perhaps for holding water. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of N.E. France of Platteville, Wisconsin, the general manager and treasurer of the National Bee-Keepers Association, in the form of a label for... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Seven beer barrels stacked in front of a truck, outside the Potosi Brewery. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | View across street of five men posing on the sidewalk outside the State Bank. Next door to the bank, on the left, is the City Meat Market. |
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| Description: | Two men are drinking, one from a mug and one from a bottle near the Cassville Brewery. The man on the left is Frank Feiker, and the photograph is taken wit... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of man examining a rowboat while crouching in the water wearing boots. Behind him is a ferry. There are several men on the shore watch... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho... |
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