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North Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View of various businesses located on north Main Street, including A. Levitt Clothing Store, The Idea, and two drugstores. Caption reads: "Main Street, Nor...
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South Main Street

Date: 1895
Description: View of businesses located on the south end of Main Street including The Hotel Erving, a shoe store, Utter Drug Company, a dentist, Graham Awning Co., and ...
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Arndt and Doty Street Intersection

Date: 1900
Description: Corner of Arndt and Doty streets, showing one of the early electric street cars in Wisconsin. The tower, the bottom of which shows in the picture, was one ...
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Anderson's Store

Date: 1908
Description: Anderson's store, with a horse and carriage in front. Caption reads: "Anderson's Store Ephraim, Wis."
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French Trading Post Site

Date: 1920
Description: Site where the first French trading post in Wisconsin was built at the fork of the Fond du Lac River in 1787. The site is located near the city's gas plant...
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Main Street, Looking South

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Description: View down unpaved Main Street. Caption reads: "Main Street Looking South, Friendship, Wis."
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Public Square

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of the public square, looking south. Caption reads: "Public Square, Ripon, Wis., Looking South."
Photograph

Water Street, Looking North

Date: 1917
Description: View down center of the downtown business district, with several people walking on the sidewalk past storefronts. Automobiles are parked at an angle along ...
Photograph

Business District Scene

Date: 1900
Description: View down street toward storefronts on either side of a dirt road in the business district. Automobiles are parked on both sides of the street, and two aut...
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Ferris Wheel

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Description: Elevated view of a Ferris Wheel on Main Street. Men and women are strolling about and many storefronts can be seen.
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Sanitary Refrigerator Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Sanitary Refrigerator Company of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, manufacturers of wood and steel refrigerators, with an elevated three-quarter vi...
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Winnebago Dairy Farm

Date: 10 18 1939
Description: Postcard submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. On the front of the postcard is the slogan: You can 'whip' our cream but you can't...
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Main Street, Looking North

Date: 1916
Description: View of the central business district of Fairwater. Horses and wagons and automobiles in the street. A hardware store is on the left. Two men are on the ri...
Photograph

Men in Automotive Garage

Date: 1917
Description: Five men standing in the J.W. Meiklejohn & Son's Prison City Garage. The men on the right are wearing business clothes and hats, the men on the left are we...
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Public Square

Date: 07 25 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Public Square." View from a tall building over the Public Square with buildings and dwellings of the town spreading out to the horizo...
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Parade Float

Date: 1912
Description: Several people, holding umbrellas, are riding in a car decorated with many tissue paper pom poms for a parade. There are miniature horse models on the hood...
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Patriotic Crowd

Date: 1914
Description: A crowd of adults and children are standing in a line with American Flags on a brick street. There is a large, three-story brick building on the right. In ...
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Train Depot and Elevator

Date: 04 15 1916
Description: Text on front reads: "Depot and Elevator, St. Cloud, Wis." A view up the railroad tracks with the station on the left and grain elevator on the right, with...
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Masonic Block

Date: 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Masonic Block, Waupun, Wis." Built of brick in 1922 in the Neoclassical style. The Masonic Lodge is above with commercial space below...

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