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Witches' Gulch Tourist Stand

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Description: Wooden walkway leading to covered outdoor platform with tables and benches, and to a building beyond.
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Railroad YMCA Building

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Description: The Railroad YMCA building at S. 3rd and W. Florida Streets.
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Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: The east side of the Schlitz Palm Garden at N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue. The Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and was one of the ...
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Rough Raiders Enlisted Men's Club, Ltd.

Date: 10 30 1943
Description: Motor Pool Dispatchers (left to right) Sergeant Alex Petro of Racine, Wisconsin, and Sergeant Joe Nicolazzi of Kenosha, Wisconsin, chat with Corporal Eugen...
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Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: View downhill towards a central business district. A restaurant and ice cream parlor are on the right side of the road, and a general store and gas pump ar...
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Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: A view of a street in the central business district. A restaurant with a group of men in front on the left. Three children with a wagon on the right. A hou...
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Blind Man with White Cane

Date: 2013
Description: A blind man with a white cane waits on the corner of 7th & Cass Streets. He is wearing jeans, a denim jacket, blaze orange hat and boots. Snow is piled on ...
Postcard

Bridge Street

Date: 1940
Description: Looking north on Bridge Street from Spring Street intersection. In foreground, left, is a bank. In foreground, right, is a restaurant with a neon sign that...
Manuscript

Century Grills Menu

Date: 1933
Description: Front cover and interior of menu for the Century Grills at the 1937 World's Fair. On the cover is a black and white photograph of a fair building, and silv...
Photograph

Leaving the Cafe After Visiting the Zoo

Date: 09 18 2014
Description: View of flowers and vines growing along the walls of ZuZu Cafe. A trellis is in a corner, supporting thick vines dotted with pick trumpet-shaped flowers. B...
Photograph

Entrance to Lakeside Street Coffee House

Date: 11 21 2014
Description: View looking up at decorative lights hanging from the beams of an entry roof. A sign on the side of the overhang reads: "Lakeside St. Coffee House." The si...
Photograph

Bust of Hindenburg

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Description: A bust of Hindenburg has been erected and decorated at the restaurant in the City Park of Steglitz (suburban Berlin).
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Saales Bombarded by French

Date: 09 28 1914
Description: Town of Saales. Bombarded by the French on September 28.
Postcard

Kennedy Manor Dining Room and Cocktail Bar

Date: 1948
Description: Three views of the Kennedy Manor Dining Room and Cocktail Lounge: exterior of front of the building, the dining room, and bar area with jukebox. Located at...
Postcard

Greetings from Shawano

Date: 1970
Description: Text on front reads: "Greetings from Shawano, Wisconsin." View of South Main Street with many businesses and automobiles parked at the curb. Heinz Drug on ...
Postcard

The Palms

Date: 1948
Description: Text on front reads: "The Palms... Pioneers of the Frog Leg Dinners in the Midwest." On the reverse text reads: "Northeast of St. Paul. Frog Leg, Steak and...
Postcard

Fairview Dining Room and Cocktail Lounge

Date: 1950
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Fairview Dining Room and Cocktail Lounge. Twin Lakes, Wis. Southern Wisconsin's finest dining spot featuring roast duck and lobster...

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