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| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Trucks line up at the gas pumps outside the Mt. Victory service plaza at night. The caption on a similar photograph reads, "Bigger than a football field, s... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Fire Safety Prevention Week Parade. The picture is taken looking at the front of the parade, and persons with flags, a marching band, an... |
| Date: | 07 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Waterfall Motel and Restaurant, a one-story building with seven large picture windows. A free-standing sign that reads "Waterfall Rest... |
| Date: | 12 07 1958 |
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| Description: | A stubborn fire smoldered in the walls of the Kindschi Leather Company at 120 South Pinckney Street. The 80-year-old building known as the Burrows building... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from street corner at Broadway and West 50th Street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when it was screening the movie "Foreign C... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square when the film "Foreign Correspondent" was showing there. The marquee says the gala premiere o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Rivoli Theater in Times Square. There is a large crowd on the sidewalk outside the theater. The marquee says the premiere of the fi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Rivoli Theater in Times Square the night the film "Foreign Correspondent" premiered there. Above the marquee is a large banner covering the front of th... |
| Date: | 09 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Uncle Sam and John Bull take part in the parade during the Midwest Shrine Convention. |
| Date: | 09 07 1956 |
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| Description: | The Zuhrah motorcyclists take part in the Midwest Shrine parade as it moves along the first block of South Carroll Street on the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Group of people gathered in and around an International Scout pickup parked outside of the Teen Beat Club. |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Amber Grid at 1313 University Avenue. There is a bicycle parked in front of the building. |
| Date: | 09 30 1965 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Capitol at night from West Washington Avenue. There is a neon or electric sign for "Hotel Loraine." |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard of an Art Deco-style brick building with an neon sign in front. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | View across parking lot towards a group of Japanese woman posing in front of Leon's Frozen Custard. Caption reads: "Visiting Japanese students posed in fro... |
| Date: | 11 02 1927 |
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| Description: | View from street towards a McCormick dealership storefront at night with neon lights. In the foreground are streetcar tracks and power poles. |
| Date: | 01 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Pedestrians walking along State Street in freezing drizzle. Neon lighting and street lamps are illuminated and are reflecting off the icy sidewalks. |
| Date: | 04 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Window display at night of the Town and Country furniture store located at 3320 University Avenue. The stores sign is lit up in neon. |
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