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Lake Geneva Downtown Restaurants

Date: 1920
Description: Downtown view. On the left side of the street is a restaurant, a photography store, a drugstore, and an ice cream parlor. On the right side is another ice ...
Postcard

Business on Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: View of various businesses on unpaved Main Street, including a drug store on the right side. Caption reads: "Main Street, Grantsburg, Wis."
Photograph

Pinckney Street with a Streetcar

Date: 1910
Description: Pinckney Street view with the edge of the Capitol grounds on the right. A streetcar is in the center of the street. Storefronts with their awnings over the...
Photograph

West Side of Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View of the west side of Main Street. Stores pictured (right to left): Kypke's Dry Goods store, Heimstreet's Drugstore, and a saloon.
Postcard

Cedar Street, North

Date: 1912
Description: View of Cedar Street looking northwards. Bassett's Drugstore is on the right, and the General Store is directly across the street. Caption reads: "Cedar St...
Photograph

Downtown Shattuck

Date: 1909
Description: View of horse-drawn traffic in downtown Shattuck. Businesses on the left side of the street include the "White House," a saloon, and the Davis Drug company...
Photograph

Ivey and Webb General Store in British Hollow

Date: 1930
Description: Ivey and Webb general store, with trees and a hill behind, and in front a man standing under the store's awning.
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South Side Deronda

Date: 1905
Description: View down a dirt road with a general store on the left, with a sign that reads: "Merchandise". Men and a child are standing on the porch. On the right side...
Photograph

General Store

Date: 1908
Description: View of the General Store at Forward, Wis., with people standing on the front porch. Caption reads: "Genl Mdse. Store, Forward, Wis."
Photograph

Western Hotel

Date: 06 1915
Description: The Western Hotel. The original tavern was built in 1834 (?) by William Shields (?). In 1845 it was operated by his son Simon Shields. In 1873 the Hotel wa...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

View of Hub City

Date: 1910
Description: View down a business-lined street in Hub City. Caption reads: "This is Hub City as it looked in 1910. On the right, looking north, is the store, hotel, and...
Photograph

General Store

Date: 1925
Description: A general store in Keyeser.
Photograph

Roy Trading Post

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of the Roy trading post, built in about 1857.
Photograph

Bradshaw Home, Superior, Wisconsin

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of the Bradshaw home, erected in about 1927 by Peter E. and John W. Bradshaw as a general store.
Photograph

Views of Stewart, Wisconsin

Date: 1910
Description: Views of Stewart, Wisconsin (otherwise known as Postville or York Township) near Monroe, Dane County. Stewart post-office was established November 12, 186...
Postcard

Mazomanie from Depot

Date: 1908
Description: View looking north from the depot towards the central business district. Caption reads: "Looking North from Depot, Mazomanie, Wis."
Photograph

Temperance Hall and Temperance House

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of Temperance Hall and Temperance House, both built in the 1840's.
Photograph

Hotel and Mercer Supply Company

Date: 1911
Description: View of the hotel across from the Mercer Supply Company. There is a small dog in the right foreground.
Postcard

West Side Court House Square

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view across street of the West Side Courthouse Square. Caption reads: "West Side Square, Monroe, Wis."
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Bradt Store

Date: 1925
Description: The Bradt Store, later destroyed by fire. A person is standing in front of the store.

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