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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a storefront window of the Burlington Farm Machinery Corporation, an International Harvester dealership. The window display includes posters pr... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International truck with a trailer full of scrap metal parked outside the R.H. Gehrke Company, an International Harvester dealership. William Le Capitaine,... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Blockman A.W. Olson and Lee Murphy outside the latter's International Harvester dealership. There is a sign for "International Trucks" above the sidewalk. ... |
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| Description: | A view of the Opera House. Caption reads: "Opera House, Traer, Iowa." |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Sperstad Hardware and Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. Two Deep Rock Gasoline pumps are near the front entrance. T... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Fourth Avenue, showing the ornate Al. Ringling Theatre, Ryan Hickethier & Co, "A Sears Associated Store," and a portion of the Trimpey Studios storefront. ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a wall with graffiti showing a hand-made poster that reads, "O Happy State when souls each other draw, When Love is Liberty and Nature Law." B... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a metal doorway in the East Village with multiple handmade posters and graffiti proclaiming a strike. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of an advertisement posted on East 4th Street which depicts three people lying in bed smoking marijuana. The copy below reads, "more--when everyt... |
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| Description: | Panoramic view from street of sixteen men standing on the sidewalk in front of the Jackson County Bank and the Post Office. On the sidewalk in front of the... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings... |
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| Description: | A man walks towards the Green Lantern Eating Cooperative. There are posters in the large front window and several bicycles are parked in front of the co-op... |
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| Description: | Woman posing outdoors standing next to an advertisement for the A.F. Werner Store, which is attached to a sleigh on a snow-covered street. The large poster... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the two-story brick Gladstone Hotel. Two cars are parked on the side of the building. An advertisement for the Northern Wisconsin State Fair in... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Six people standing on the porch of L.J. Ryan Dry Goods and Groceries. A sign above the door says: Post Office North Andover." A team of two horses are pul... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A sign shows a smiling Asian American man holding a rye bread sandwich in an advertisemnt for Levy and Sons Bakery of New York, New York. The sign reads: "... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | View towards sidewalk of a line of demonstrators carrying signs during a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. A man walking along the sidewalk holds ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk towards a sign that says "... and Lodging England's" for a boarding house is on the extreme left. Next to the sign is a building with a ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across road of the Berg & Jones Department Store, with posters in the front windows announcing an upcoming Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus ... |
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| Description: | Exterior of Alert Hall. Near the roof line is a sign with the date "1905". Posters are in the windows and a broadside is posted outside underneath a window... |
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