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Model House Exterior

Date: 10 10 1931
Description: Exterior front view of the model house at 2318 Monroe Street. Ralph H. Wood was the contractor from the design firm of Balch and Lippert, Madison architect...
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Haley & Sons Building

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: Haley & Sons, building facade, "Insurance, Realtors, Northwestern Insured Savings," 124 State Street. In 1940 it became home of the First Federal Savings a...
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Hanks Real Estate Office Interior Entrance

Date: 12 14 1935
Description: Art Deco interior entrance to the offices of Stanley C. Hanks Co., real estate and Hanks & Bush, Insurance, 24 W. Mifflin Street, Hub Building.
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Rennebohm's at 1357 University Avenue

Date: 1925
Description: The Rennebohm Drug Store #1 at the corner of University Avenue and Randall Avenue, which replaced Rennebohm's first store located just across the street. A...
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Mount Zircon Spring Water Company

Date: 1917
Description: Four men pose around an International truck, probably a Model H, owned and operated by the Mount Zircon Spring Water Co. The truck is loaded with cases and...
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Andrew Wade House Bombing Comic Strip

Date: 1954
Description: Comic strip showing man bombing a house because it is being sold to an African-American man. A police officer arrests the seller of the home for inciting t...
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Ingvald Hovde, President, Hovde Realty Company

Date: 12 09 1947
Description: Portrait of Ingvald Hovde, President of Hovde Realty Company, 114 North Carroll Street.
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Benjamin F. Faast

Date: 12 02 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Benjamin F. Faast, Eau Claire realtor.
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Arthur N. McGeoch

Date: 06 10 1921
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Arthur N. McGeoch, Milwaukee realtor.
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Jeremiah Quin

Date: 11 05 1913
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Jeremiah Quin, Milwaukee estate manager.
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August Rebhan

Date: 10 09 1914
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of August Rebhan, Milwaukee realtor.
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Crestwood Area House

Date: 12 13 1949
Description: View of a house in the Crestwood neighborhood built by Jack Threlfall in a Madison shop and assembled on site. A sign in the front yard reads: "For Sale An...
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Transfer of Governor's Residence

Date: 02 15 1950
Description: The historic governor's residence, 130 East Gilman Street, passed officially into University of Wisconsin hands. U.W. President Fred (left) hands a $60,000...
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Small Boy on Bushel Basket

Date: 1900
Description: Alois Schwaller, youngest son of Frank A. and Susan Schmitt Schwaller, standing outside THE Schwaller home on an upturned metal "bushel basket" holding 10-...
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Horse-Drawn Carriage near Storefronts

Date: 1900
Description: Looking east across Pine Street at the F. A. Schwaller Music Store / Schwaller's Real Estate Office, flanked by Theodore Riel's dry goods and grocery store...
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Downtown Storefronts

Date: 1900
Description: Looking east across Pine Street at Jacob Black's dry goods store, with a display of hand fans in front window; Schwaller's Real Estate company is above Bla...
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Commerical Storefronts

Date: 1900
Description: Looking east across Pine street at the storefronts of J. Wien's clothing, dry goods, and grocery store, Black's Dry Goods store, Schwaller's Real Estate Of...
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Men with Deer Carcasses on Sidewalk

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men stand in front of the Schwaller building on Pine Street with two male deer carcasses on the board sidewalk. The man touching the antlers is...
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West Side of Square

Date: 1911
Description: View of the West side of the town square, with automobiles, horse-drawn carts, pedestrians and a fountain. The street is lined with storefronts including "...
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Masonic Building Exterior

Date: 1911
Description: View from street toward the Masonic building (erected 1876). Business signs read: (obscured) "Millinery," "W.F. Terrell," "M.J. Eves Real Estate & Insuranc...

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