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Traveling Medicine Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 06 08 1928
Description: Employee with a Toledo scale at the Fisher Body Co.
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Bird's-Eye View of Janesville

Date: 1860
Description: Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building.
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Janesville's Hotel Myers

Date: 1919
Description: Hotel Myers, in downtown Janesville. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesville in 1873 and lived there until his father, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones moved th...
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Janesville's Milwaukee Street looking east from the Bridge

Date: 1919
Description: Street scene with pedestrians near Milwaukee Street bridge. The Hotel Myers is in the background. The Lappin-Hayes Block is seen to the right of the Myer...
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Janesville's East Milwaukee Street

Date: 1919
Description: Looking east down East Milwaukee Street. Commercial intersection in downtown, with pedestrians walking across the street over street-railroad tracks. The ...
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Grand Army of the Republic Parade During State Encampment

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Union veterans, some holding a banner reading "Iron Brigade," marching on a downtown street in a parade during a state encampment.
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Locomotive Engine No. 632

Date: 1886
Description: Right side view of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 632.
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Samson Automobile Advertisement

Date: 1916
Description: Advertisement for the Samson nine-passenger automobile featuring a photograph of men and women sitting in the car.
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Memorial Day March

Date: 1920
Description: Small group of elderly men, two of them bearing, respectively, a U.S. Flag, and a banner, perhaps a company roster. This may be a group of Civil War vetera...
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Family Driving

Date: 1903
Description: George S. Parker and family seated in their car, one of the first automobiles in Janesville. Behind them is a couple in another car.
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Janesville Rotary Club Entertains University of Wisconsin, Beloit, and Milton College Foreign Students

Date: 02 11 1961
Description: Ninety-two foreign students attending the U.W., Beloit, and Milton Colleges representing 35 countries took buses to Janesville where they were guests of th...
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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...
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Selling Trump Merchandise

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: Two African American men are attaching buttons to a display on the hood of a car in a parking lot outside the Donald Trump rally. T-shirts and hats bearing...
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Trump Clothing and a Mask

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A woman is standing behind her merchandise in a parking lot outside of the Janesville Donald Trump rally. She is wearing sunglasses, and a hat bearing the ...
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Man Selling Political Shirts

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A man is posing for the camera in a parking lot holding up his merchandise while wearing a hat in red, white and blue that reads: "Trump 2016," and a white...
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Medic

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A young medic from the Beloit Fire Department stands in a parking lot wearing full gear. He has his hands in his pockets. Behind him are other men wearing ...
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Donald Trump T-Shirt

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: View from the back of a man wearing blue jeans, a red hat, and a white t-shirt which reads: "Donald Trump Finally Someone with Balls." Two other people are...
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Line of Media Personnel

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A line of photographers, reporters, and other media personnel lining up in the back of the Janesville Conference Center waiting to enter the Donald Trump r...
Postcard

Court House Park

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Description: View across street towards a park. There are women sitting in a carriage at the curb. A fountain can be seen among the trees. Caption reads: "Court House P...

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