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Main Street

Date: 1940
Description: Main Street, showing a grocery store, restaurant, and the Up and Down Tavern.
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Devil's Bar-B-Q

Date: 1925
Description: View from across road of the Devil's Barbecue roadside restaurant on South Boulevard, then Highway 12, near Baraboo. The restaurant is a stone building; th...
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Lake Delton Airport

Date: 1935
Description: View across field towards two airplanes sitting in front of the hangar at the Lake Delton Airport. The sign on the hangar identifies W.J. Newman as the own...
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Pete's Cafe

Date: 1940
Description: Pete Sprecher's Cafe and Bar on Water Street. A sign identifies the entrance to Pearl's Garden Dining Room. There are two benches and a penny weight machi...
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The Farm Kitchen

Date: 1940
Description: A barn, windmill and shed on the grounds of The Farm Kitchen, a restaurant near Baraboo and Devil's Lake State Park. Stones line a parking area, and a swin...
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Warren House Hotel

Date: 1930
Description: Cars are parked along the side of the Warren Hotel, 102 Fourth Avenue at the corner of Oak Street. The hotel is a large two and one half-story stone struct...
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Interior of Diner

Date: 1940
Description: An interior view of a diner, showing two semi-circular counters with stools and booths along the walls. There is a jukebox on the right and a root beer bar...
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Bettinger Store

Date: 1925
Description: View across street of the Bettinger Store, with men standing on the sidewalk in front near a truck parked at the curb. Further down the street is a gas pum...
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Prairie du Sac Main Street

Date: 1922
Description: View down middle of street, showing the central business district. A drug store, restaurant and hotel are on the left. A garage, bank, bathhouse, bowling a...
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Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: View down Main Street. Designated parking is in the center of the street. On the left is a billboard, and signs in front of the commercial buildings read "...
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Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: View down Main Street. A millinery, meat market, bakery, hotel and shoe store are on the left. An osteopath, a hardware store, a barber shop, a small resta...
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Sauk City Main Street

Date: 1924
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left is a soda shop/confectioner, with two women and a baby carriage on the sidewalk in front. Further down is a ch...
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Main Street

Date: 1909
Description: View down center of Main Street which is unpaved. A young girl wearing a bonnet is standing in the road on the right, near another child standing at the co...
Postcard

Al. Ringling Theatre

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard view of the exterior of the theater. There are posters in front of the entrance. A current attraction is George Fawcett in "The Frame...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 01 27 1914
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street, Spring Green, Wis." Storefronts are on both sides of an unpaved street, and the sidewalks and crosswalks are cement. A h...
Postcard

Rock's Round Barn

Date: 1963
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Rock's Round Barn on Highway U.S. 14 near Spring Green, Wisconsin, is a very unique restaurant featuring a new and novel 'salad bar...

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