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Third Avenue Looking East

Date: 1917
Description: Colorized postcard view of the central business district. The street is lined with businesses and street lamps. A man and a dog are in front of the bank on...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized postcard of an elevated view of a parade going through the central business district. People in the parade are wearing helmets and riding horseba...
Photograph

Koltes & Esser Hardware

Date: 06 1931
Description: Henry Esser stands on the step in front of Koltes & Esser Hardware in the 300 block of West Lakeside Street. Fencing, garbage cans, a hose reel and lawn mo...
Photograph

National Bicycle Week

Date: 1963
Description: View from street of group of local boys taking part in a celebration of National Bicycle Week. Members of the Shaker-Callaway Post of the VFW were on hand ...
Photograph

Bicycle Safety Instruction

Date: 1963
Description: Sterling Standiford, a State Trooper, talking to a group of local children on bicycle safety during National Bicycle Week. The activities took place outsid...
Photograph

Boy at National Bicycle Week

Date: 1963
Description: A boy taking part in a National Bicycle Week Celebration stands near a bicycle. Sterling Standiford, a State Trooper who was present to explain proper ope...
Postcard

Two Men on Vintage Motorcycle

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Description: Photographic postcard of two men posing seated on a vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle. They are dressed in work clothes and hats. Another man with his arm...
Postcard

Bowar Brothers Hardware and Implements

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Description: Photographic postcard of Bowar Bros. Hardware Store. The awning reads, "Hardware, Bowar Bros., Implements, Auto Supplies." Over the large door on the left ...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Hearses in a Funeral Procession

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Description: View from across unpaved street of four men with horse-drawn hearses lined up in front of an undertaking building. The other storefronts are a stable on th...
Photograph

Main Street North

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Description: View down unpaved street towards many businesses: Carl Olson Shoe Store, Wakeman's Pharmacy, Jay Jennings, dentist, O.G.H. Parman, Badger Hardware, L.G. Bi...
Photograph

Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1915
Description: View down unpaved street towards a large crowd of men, women and children gathered around the stalls of the Hustler Harvest Festival. The festival is set u...
Photograph

Military Band at the Hustler Harvest Festival

Date: 1915
Description: An African American military band poses for the camera during the Hustler Harvest Festival. They are sitting in an open sided structure with a canvas roof ...
Postcard

Bank of Durand

Date: 1910
Description: Black and white photographic postcard view from across street towards a two-story brick corner building, labeled as the Bank of Durand. Two Ford Model T's ...
Photograph

Sumner's Drug Store

Date: 1921
Description: View across street towards the Edwin Sumner and Son Drugstore at 15 S. Pinckney Street. Automobiles are parked at an angle on both sides of the street, and...
Photograph

South Pinckney Street Businesses

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Description: View across street towards the row of first floor businesses on S. Pinckney Street. From left to right: S.S. Kresge Co.; Wolff, Kubly and Hirsig Co. Hardwa...
Photograph

Lakeside Street

Date: 1925
Description: View across street looking west towards the north side of West Lakeside Street. Three known businesses are the South Side State Bank (3rd from the left), U...
Photograph

Panoramic View of Downtown Madison

Date: 05 07 1907
Description: Panoramic view of the downtown towards Bascom Hall from the corner of the Capitol Square, showing Carroll, Mifflin, and State Streets. Several businesses c...
Photograph

Downtown Cross Plains

Date: 02 22 2012
Description: View down center of street towards downtown Cross Plains. Shelton's Bar & Grill is on the left. On the right is the True Value Hardware store.
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Corner of West Main and South Carroll Streets

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Description: View across street towards the corner of West Main and South Carroll Streets with horse-drawn wagons in front of storefronts. The building at the corner is...
Postcard

Miller & Jones Hardware Store

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Description: View of the storefront of Miller & Jones Hardware, with two men standing at the entrance. Horses and carts are parked in the street. A Masonic symbol is in...

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